Quick Notes from LSUs first practice in full pads

Stamps can play. He man'd up Sampson pretty well last year when Catholic and Rummel played. Sampson won some and Stamps won some.

Stamps was incredibly underrated in recruiting. You don't dominate an LSU camp against nationwide elite blue chips unless you can ball.

There's so many high end players who get overlooked and fall through the cracks in Louisiana in skill positions.

Our best 5 this year will be Campbell, Dellinger, Turner, Jones, Heard. Not sure when we see it, but seems like it’s coming.

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Who’s battling for the starting position here? Lunsford, Dellinger, & Frazier?

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Frazier was the starting RG last year. This is actually pretty good news from a depth perspective.

Sounds like the defense is starting to gel

Really liked Stamps's film - thought he would be a 2nd year contributor though, so this is great to hear.

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Again, why posters need to stop star gazing. That shite doesn’t matter

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A high start rating doesn't guarantee a player will be great. Just like a low star rating doesn't guarantee he won't. But from a predicative standpoint the higher the star rating the more likely a guy will be a great player.

LSU had 5 top 100 HS recruits as freshmen last season

Perkins (5 star)
Wiggins (4 star)
Campbell (4 star)
Howard (4 star)
E. Jones (4 star)

I'd say the star rating for Perkins and Campbell were pretty damn accurate. Same for Jones.

There will ALWAYS be underrated guys that exceed expectations. But the more 4-5 star guys you have (like the ones listed above), the better your chances at being great. Otherwise, Georgia and Alabama would sometimes struggle, while Kentucky and Mississippi St would compete for championships with their (mostly) 3 star rosters. We know that isn't the case. So in other words, stars matter far more than they don't

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Denbrock answered some questions!

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That's a coach beaming about his team.

You need depth at guard - no matter who ends up starting you need a good 3 man rotation at those spots
Last year you had Frazier, Dellinger and Bradford who all played significant snaps

The good thing about the tackles is you have two SEC experienced players in Campbell and Jones and you can give Heard time to develop
As good as the two freshmen were last season in sec play, they still made a lot of mistakes that they likely won't make this year and you can work Heard in without throwing him to the wolves year 1 and then if he's good enough to push someone like Jones inside than that makes your line that much better