re: Examining Raymond’s LSU tenure

It is pretty telling he only wanted to coach the cb's and not all the db's as a whole. Him and Mickey I view the same, great recruiters, lazy coaches. The real downside to this is this cycles recruiting class is likely to completely fall apart.

Worth noting that after 2011 we were terrible some years on the DL. We even played a few games with zero rotation with DL because we only had 4 (Orgeron's first year? Interim 2016?).

And a DB's best friend is a good DL.

Having said that... Raymond's best years were those years.

It blow my mind as the DL was rebuilt the DBs performance dropped. I'm not saying that's all on Raymond because it isn't (what happened in 2020- new DC named Pelini after Aranda). But it is the opposite of one would expect to see.

Trying to pin 2020 and 2021 on Raymond is fertilizer. I think Raymond has earned his reputation. Great coach.

This is Corey Raymond’s recruiting history. He is not the great recruiter that people make him out to be

2011 David Jenkins, 4 Star
Jalen Collins, 3 Star
Ronald Martin, 3 Star

2012 Dwayne Thomas, 4 Star
Derrick Raymond, 4 Star
Jerqwinick Sandolph, 3 Star
Jalen Mills, 3 Star

2013 Tre’Davious White, 4 Star
Jeryl Brazil, 4 Star
Rashard Robinson, 4 Star

2014 None Signed

2015 Kevin Tolliver, 5 Star
Xavier Lewis, 4 Star

2016 Kristian Fulton, 5 Star
Saivion Smith, 4 Star
Greedy Williams, 4 Star

2017 Kary Vincent, 4 Star

2018 Kelvin Joseph, 4 Star but he was recruited as a safety
2019 Derek Stingley, 5 Star

Maurice Hampton, 4 Star
Jay Ward, 3 Star
Cordale Flott, 3 Star

2020 Eli Ricks, 5 Star
Dwight McGlothern, 4 Star
Darren Evans, Transfer

2021 Damarius McGhee, 4 Star

2022 Laterrance Welch, 4 Star
JaDarian Rhym, 4 Star

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2019-54th
2020- last in country
2021- 68th

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CR had nothing to do with the play calling by Bo Pellini.
Don't put 2020 on him. Players did not seem to know where they were supposed to be on many plays. The defense was atrocious. I place majority of it on Bo.

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But let’s be subjective, when was the last LSU secondary that you would consider elite? Stats say 3 years ago, what do you think?

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The defensive coordinator has more to do with that than a cornerbacks coach.

He didn't even coach safeties the last 3 years. Corners only.

Spot on assessment

Read my post again. You are the target audience. You don’t understand

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Not when you're one of the best recruiters in the country.

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LSU could just hire one of the best recruiters in the country.

Oh wait…BK did just hire one of the best recruiters in the country.

Hate to see Raymond go but LSU will be fine.

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This is Corey Raymond’s recruiting history.

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Dude, that's alot of NFLers. That's pretty damn strong list there.