re: Why is Shep often called a bust, but not Randle?

It's really amazing. Shep, a starter, is to many a bust whereas his recruiting classmates like Loston and Ford are given a pass. I can only guess it is because he is someone the coaches put in front of the mic and because he got a lot of hype preseason.

A bust is Al Woods. Tough to say anyone on the roster is a bust right now. Arguably JLee is as a top 10 QB prospect who failed as a starter and couldn't wrestle the job back from Jefferson despite the latters struggles. But that would be a marginal argument when compared to Woods. Davenport is headed towards bustville but it is too soon. Ironically, isn't he the same vintage as Shep?

well poor qb play obviously contributed to Randle's lack of production and I guess you could say the same for Shep even though he's not really a "true" wide receiver, but either way, I don't see why people expect so much from players during their first 2 years. I mean sure they're 5 star recruits but still...they need time to develop.

Randle doesn't get the bust label (which gets thrown around way too much in general) because of the plays he's made. 2 TD catches in the back of the endzone vs Ole Miss in 2009, TD catches vs Bama and Auburn where he owned the DB. He's made some big plays despite utter and complete incompetance at the QB position.

My observation has been that Shep hasn't had that great of hands so far.

Randle it has seemed has caught everything he should have caught and some he shouldn't have caught.

Both are solid players, but Shep seems a slight bust because he supposedly didn't have the game smarts for QB and has struggled at WR.

Amp Hill had a horrific injury and never recovered so he is not a valid comparison.
RS and RR's production suck compared to expectation but it would be easy to argue that it's a result of crappy coaching, scheme and poor QB play.
They may light it up soon if Kragthorpe is better than GC and JJ has really improved.
I think foljs thought RR would light it up like Julio Jones and AJ Green did early in their careers. Everyone expexted RS to be Percy Harvin and lethal "in space". Neither has happened.
That's noy being. "rantard". (pretty offensive term), that's just being honest.
LSU looks like the place 5 star skill players go to wither on the vine.

Shep hasn't been a bust in any way, but he was somewhat overrated by the recruiting services. He probably should have been a 4 star recruit instead of a high 5 star. Randle looks like he deserved the high 5 star rating.

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Randle has had his fair share of horrible drops the past two seasons. To act like he's caught everything in front of him is a revisionist view of reality

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He's made some unreal catches though. And his drops are few and far between. He and Toliver both caught more than the revisionists might have you think.

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No he hasn't.

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Yes he has. Several at critical times, but no more than any other great receiver has. People have over exaggerated the number of drops Shep has had, but he's obviously had more which is to be expected given his transition to a new position.

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Randle has the best hands on the team.

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Not going to argue with you there. He's an amazing talent, but he isn't perfect and has had his share of mistakes.

The team as a whole and particularly in the passing game will hopefully be improved this year.

I have seen with my own two eyes Randle drop some critical passes so don't sit here and say he hasn't. One that sticks out is last year against Auburn we were driving and Randle let's a good ball go through his hands on about Auburn's 25 yard line and ended up being an interception. If we scored here it could have changed the game. I'd say that was a pretty critical drop

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