re: Derek Williams commits to Texas

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This is starting to get extremely frustrating.

That's two straight years missing out on the number one DB in Louisiana

LSU is 44th in recruiting. Bama is now getting high profile recruits with Tony mitchell. Ohio State and Texas are dominating. They're in the lead for Jordan Matthews. It's time for this staff to get to work.

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OKtiger

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You? Melting over a June Committment?

Shocker.

Get used to LSU and fans being happy with a top 25 recruiting class. Not going to be able to compete with the big money teams and the gap is going to keep getting wider.

Don’t worry this board convinced me yday that we don’t want or need Mathews. Cheer up Stars don’t mean $h1t, we’re going to turn all these 3*s into Justin Jefferson and Patrick Mahomes , calm down it’s only June they say.
At least for 3 more days then they’ll use the it’s only July quote, or we don’t need him any way. While honestly it ain’t going smooth in the recruiting stuff, trust me, no melt here just a dose of reality, downvote away idgaf

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It's time for this staff to get to work.

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The staff is busting its arse. We simply can’t or won’t compete with the money players. I lean more towards can’t but I won’t leave anything off the table.

Let’s be honest here y’all, these are for the most part young black kids that for the majority probably don’t come from the a middle class background. The music they listen to, the athletes they are influenced by, the things they see in other mediums all hammer home the idea that it’s all about the money. So likely, 90% of them and most of them at the top end, will only give a frick about the dollar bill at the end of the day.

We can’t match what aTm, UT, Georgia, USC, OSU, or Michigan can throw at those guys. And most people aren’t crazy enough to bankrupt themselves in order for their football team to be good like Alabama.

Maybe I’m wrong, I could be. But we simply don’t have endless pockets to pull from.

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They're in the lead for Jordan Matthews. It's time for this staff to get to work.

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Ok. LSU’s staff were all at various jobs in College Football and the NFL last year so they had zero relationships with the kids in Louisiana. However, they have contacts from around the country and we are seeing those kids visit LSU.

Look at the kids on that list. Now you knew that LSU has Walker Howard and that Manning and Holstein were neither coming to LSU. You also knew that Tackett Curtis was an Ohio State lean before Brian Kelly arrived in Baton Rouge.

The previous staff did not recruit this class because they were fired during the first half of the season.So somehow this staff is at fault?

Last, any list of the Top 10 players in Louisiana that doesn’t include Trey Holly is questionable.