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Untapped Recruiting Area for LSU
Posted on 4/19/15 at 3:18 pm
Posted on 4/19/15 at 3:18 pm
Is this an opportunity that is being missed by LSU? Look at the links following the article; specifically the You Tube videos of USA vs Canada in the 2015 International Bowls for youth football. Shea Patterson played in this Bowl game in the past.
Spring football is prime scouting season
Thursday, Apr 16, 2015 06:00 am By: Brendan Nagle
Cochrane Eagle News
In a season short on positives for the Cochrane Midget Lions, experts at the next level are still finding them. And it's costing eligible players who've declined to play community spring football this season. Dearly. Count Carleton University Ravens football head coach Steve Sumarah as someone finding positives among the Midget Lions ranks, making his flight from Ottawa worth the effort. Without giving too much away, Sumarah suggested there are at least a couple of Midget Lions players the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) football program is tracking. And there would be more, if Cochrane had more live bodies in its spring-season community football program for Grade 9-11 players aged 14-18. Cochrane dressed 25 players in its 54-0 Calgary Area Midget Football Association (CAMFA) loss April 11 to Calgary Mavericks, which had twice the number of players in uniform. Obviously, Sumarah was scouting Mavs and all other CAMFA teams, along with Lions.
“To be honest with you, I think it's the most important thing,” Sumarah said of his spring scouting chores at community football fields in the third province west of Ontario. “There's no secret football in Alberta is some of the strongest in the country.” “I believe that if you want to compete nationally, you have to recruit nationally. What better format than having all Grade 9-10-11s playing and then you can compare them playing against each other? I think it's a fantastic situation.” Sumarah is one of several CIS coaches on the ground right now scouting midget-aged football players.
“Everybody sees it and sees the value in it,” Sumarah said of university coaches descending upon Calgary-area midget football. “If you're not here, you're crazy. Sometimes people don't realize the value these programs offer. With the opportunity to see spring football, this is what's happening. If you want to be seen, you need to be involved in these programs.”
University of B.C., University of Calgary, University of Alberta, University of Manitoba; pretty much all CIS Canada West football coaches, and Carleton's Sumarah, were scouting April 11 CAMFA Week 3 action at Calgary's Shouldice Park and the Football Alberta camps April 12 at McMahon Stadium.
“All the Canada West scouts will be here, for sure,” Midget Lions head coach Jud Graham said. “It's a great opportunity for players to get noticed.”
Spring is prime recruiting season for universities, and there are at least a dozen eligible, high-caliber Cochrane-area football players not playing for Midget Lions this season and, therefore, not being scouted by universities like Carleton right now.
“The way things are unfolding is it's happening sooner and sooner. You have to be ahead of the curve,” Sumarah said. “For us, we want to really make sure they (players) know who we are and they know we are interested.”
Sumarah will take 10-15 player names away from his Alberta Midget spring-football scouting sojourn. The Carleton football coach will let those players and their parents know the Ottawa-based university is interested in inviting them to play/study at the university starting in fall 2016. But the eligible Cochrane-area players not on the field for the Cochrane Midget Lions right now won't get that memo.
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See International Bowl Youth Football USA vs Canada at:
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Spring football is prime scouting season
Thursday, Apr 16, 2015 06:00 am By: Brendan Nagle
Cochrane Eagle News
In a season short on positives for the Cochrane Midget Lions, experts at the next level are still finding them. And it's costing eligible players who've declined to play community spring football this season. Dearly. Count Carleton University Ravens football head coach Steve Sumarah as someone finding positives among the Midget Lions ranks, making his flight from Ottawa worth the effort. Without giving too much away, Sumarah suggested there are at least a couple of Midget Lions players the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) football program is tracking. And there would be more, if Cochrane had more live bodies in its spring-season community football program for Grade 9-11 players aged 14-18. Cochrane dressed 25 players in its 54-0 Calgary Area Midget Football Association (CAMFA) loss April 11 to Calgary Mavericks, which had twice the number of players in uniform. Obviously, Sumarah was scouting Mavs and all other CAMFA teams, along with Lions.
“To be honest with you, I think it's the most important thing,” Sumarah said of his spring scouting chores at community football fields in the third province west of Ontario. “There's no secret football in Alberta is some of the strongest in the country.” “I believe that if you want to compete nationally, you have to recruit nationally. What better format than having all Grade 9-10-11s playing and then you can compare them playing against each other? I think it's a fantastic situation.” Sumarah is one of several CIS coaches on the ground right now scouting midget-aged football players.
“Everybody sees it and sees the value in it,” Sumarah said of university coaches descending upon Calgary-area midget football. “If you're not here, you're crazy. Sometimes people don't realize the value these programs offer. With the opportunity to see spring football, this is what's happening. If you want to be seen, you need to be involved in these programs.”
University of B.C., University of Calgary, University of Alberta, University of Manitoba; pretty much all CIS Canada West football coaches, and Carleton's Sumarah, were scouting April 11 CAMFA Week 3 action at Calgary's Shouldice Park and the Football Alberta camps April 12 at McMahon Stadium.
“All the Canada West scouts will be here, for sure,” Midget Lions head coach Jud Graham said. “It's a great opportunity for players to get noticed.”
Spring is prime recruiting season for universities, and there are at least a dozen eligible, high-caliber Cochrane-area football players not playing for Midget Lions this season and, therefore, not being scouted by universities like Carleton right now.
“The way things are unfolding is it's happening sooner and sooner. You have to be ahead of the curve,” Sumarah said. “For us, we want to really make sure they (players) know who we are and they know we are interested.”
Sumarah will take 10-15 player names away from his Alberta Midget spring-football scouting sojourn. The Carleton football coach will let those players and their parents know the Ottawa-based university is interested in inviting them to play/study at the university starting in fall 2016. But the eligible Cochrane-area players not on the field for the Cochrane Midget Lions right now won't get that memo.
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See International Bowl Youth Football USA vs Canada at:
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Posted on 4/19/15 at 3:24 pm to GreatWhiteNorth
I don't think they have the budget.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 3:28 pm to GreatWhiteNorth
I can see it as a potential recruiting goldmine for schools like South Dakota State, but I don't think LSU needs to venture there anytime soon.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 3:30 pm to TheWalrus
Um I think there is a reason our staff is paid what they are and we post on the rant.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 3:38 pm to GreatWhiteNorth
We have one of the best recruiting grounds in the USA right here within 400 miles of Baton Rouge.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 3:43 pm to Captain Crown
So we go to Canada to find a few prospects? 1200+ high schools in Tx playing football FWIW. Which makes more sense?
Posted on 4/19/15 at 3:45 pm to ninthward
I don't know. We may give folks too much credit sometimes. People don't know what they don't know. Assuie punters are all the trend now. Wasn't like that a few years ago. I'm from Louisiana and the only thing that I knew about Canada was it was cold and snowed a lot until I moved to Calgary in 2013. I learned that the weather wasn't that bad and that the youth football programs in Calgary rivaled anything I had seen in Louisiana or Texas. Go to You Tube and look at the International Bowl where the USA squares off against Canada every year. You may be surprised to see how the Canada teams have dominated, including when Shea Patterson played in this game. the 2015 games were held in Jerry's world. Maybe there is a chance that it is unexplored talent pool because it's an unknown. It's possible.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 3:48 pm to GreatWhiteNorth
LSU has Interstate 10 to work with
There's no better place in the world to find football prospects
There's no better place in the world to find football prospects
Posted on 4/19/15 at 3:57 pm to VermilionTiger
I agree, but not every kid on the team is from the I-10 trail. There a few from other places. If you going to recruit Cincinnati, New Jersey, California and other such places for that one or two extra players that will make your team better then why Calgary? It's as close to Baton Rouge as Los Angeles is and Delta, United and all the airlines fly there.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 4:01 pm to dstone12
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We have one of the best recruiting grounds in the USA right here within 400 miles of Baton Rouge.
This. We could recruit only within this radius or even less and still compete every year for national titles based on talent alone.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 4:37 pm to Sterling Archer
This is also true, they could just get players from a 400 mile radius and be just fine. However, they don't get everyone they want within a 400 mile radius that they want and heck the roster, there are a number of players far beyond that range.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 5:23 pm to GreatWhiteNorth
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by GreatWhiteNorth
This is also true, they could just get players from a 400 mile radius and be just fine. However, they don't get everyone they want within a 400 mile radius that they want and heck the roster, there are a number of players far beyond that range.
Then it is up to our coaches to make LSU more attractive than the other schools in the SEC. recruiting is te responsibility of the coaches.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 5:35 pm to GreatWhiteNorth
Huh, I thought this was going to be about the Monroe area.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 5:59 pm to GreatWhiteNorth
We're killing it in Australia.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 6:03 pm to Lakeboy7
Sorry.
Neither Monroe, Shreveport, nor Springhill are on I -10.
Neither Monroe, Shreveport, nor Springhill are on I -10.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 6:10 pm to dstone12
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Then it is up to our coaches to make LSU more attractive than the other schools in the SEC. recruiting is te responsibility of the coaches.
There isn't one school that gets every top player in a 400 mile radius. At least not in the south.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 7:05 pm to GreatWhiteNorth
Why go to the north when the best play in the south. This is just stupid.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 7:20 pm to cheesesteak501
If you can play you can play; north, south, east or west. I'm sure Ohio State has a roster with only players from the south? I lived in Ashland Kentucky for a number of years, worked in Ohio which was 5 min from Ashland, I can tell you...I do not like Ohio State. I was sick of hearing about the Buckeyes. But good players can come from anywhere.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 7:24 pm to dgnx6
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There isn't one school that gets every top player in a 400 mile radius. At least not in the south.
Yes, and thank you.
Truly insightful on your behalf.
Posted on 4/20/15 at 6:59 am to ninthward
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Um I think there is a reason our staff is paid what they are and we post on the rant.
Truedat. Almost spit my coffee out when I read that. 
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