re: Kolaj Cobbins… what am I missing here??

I mean he’s got some growing to do but guys are evaluated on potential all the time and you can clearly see that he has potential.

I think his rating for the most part is accurate for the time being but there are some extreme gaps in quite a few of our players rankings between one site and the next. 90% of these HS recruits aren’t completely developed physically or mentally for the college game.

Brian Kelly mentioned this himself in the interview where he’s giving his opinion on this years class after signing day. He said that they have multiple guys that clearly have to be developed but also mentioned that they also clearly have all the tools you’d want to have as a HS recruit moving onto college.

Basically saying once we get them into our weight training program and working with our coaches, that they’ll be exactly what LSU needs to compete in the SEC. They have all the right traits, attitude, physical abilities and a good football mind for the college game. They all have room to exponentially grow and really it sounds like that’s what they targeted this year.

There are so many of these players who have topped out at the HS level, think they can just dominate in college and end up not taking well to the coaches philosophy. Those guys are sometimes easily distracted, become insecure, and unsure of themselves. Then you have to really work with them mentally to stay with this process that will just take longer than expected. Don’t get me wrong there are some great athletes who know exactly what it will take and end up doing well but you want to target guys who know they have tons of work to do and are ready for the challenge awaiting them. Guys who thrive in that environment. When you have a class full of those dudes but also have all the physical abilities and are ready to build on it, then you have a class that will fight for whatever the next goal is and get better as a team.

You always have a chance with those types of players because all you need now is time and not as much time because they already know what they have to do coming in. There’s no mental set backs or those limitations are few at the very least.