re: What's the story behind Mathieu's recruitment to LSU?

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Jay Barker said on the radio in Birmingham yesterday that if Alabama wanted him all they had to do was offer him and he would have gone there. I don't get these guys sometimes. Do they really think that no football player can resist bama. Not sure why it ticked me off so much.

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Personally, I don't know what would be funnier- if that's complete BS or completely true.

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Cornbeef

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When Wilson watched Mathieu play, he saw an undersized player who had a burning desire to disprove what he had always been told. "You're a little too short," Mathieu was told. "You're a little too small." Mathieu made sure he got Wilson's attention during the coach's visits to practice. He walked up in front of Wilson and reached down and slapped the ground repeatedly while screaming, "I'm here!" "He let it be known that you better recognize who I am," Wilson said. "I loved it."

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seeing as how late we offered him

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July?

all that stuff is blown out of proportion as far as i'm concerned. He went to the UTenn camp and beasted, then came to the LSU camp, got his offer and committed. He was a 4 star, and the top rated rivals cover guy that year. He didn't get those other offers because he was rock solid to LSU because of Wilson being on the staff. Anyone else would have been wasting their time. Look at Eric Reid's offer list:

LSU
NC State
Tulane
Stanford
Tennessee

Not quite like Mathieu's but similar. When you commit to LSU or anywhere else really early nobody is going to put the full court press on and waste their resources. TM7 is fantastic player who came in with high expectations. If anybody wants to run with an underdog story its Claiborne easily.

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giving a guy an offer isn't exactly wasting resources IMO if you think the player is good enough

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across the board the junior year and summer commitments have less bloated offer lists across the board than the signing day or all star game guys. That's all i was getting at.

Saban is all about the measurables, and if a kid does not have the critical factors rated for the position he does not offer. Vllahos probably wouldn't have been offered if he hadn't been offered by Shula's staff before Nick was hired. Reason, he is too short for a center,(under 6'1").

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My co-worker taught at St. Aug. Said the Honey Badger used to sleep in his World Geography class. Hope the HB gets enough rest to let it all loose on Jan.9th.




I slept in Spanish class

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Yo Pienso que tu necesita estudiar mas porque eres es no inteligente. Creo que si ?

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yup. mathieu was obviously underrated but nobody complained when he was offered a scholarship. People were pissed when the "2 star out of fair park shreveport" got an offer.

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Not true...lots of complaints when he was offered by us. I mean, he was an undersized 'no name' with a rather pitiful offer list. He wasn't the only person bitched about in that class...but then, that class is one reason why I trust our coaches' abilities to measure talent more than I trust star ratings and offer lists.

That recruiting class was in the midst of the 'negatiger' reign online...RP had been booted, we suffered through a couple of seasons with Crowton 'coaching' our QBs and it was all 'CLM is this decade's Larry Coker!!!'. So a lot of the outrage over recruiting was, IMO, due to that negative environment. I wasn't a basher then, but I must admit that I scratched my head over a few offers here and there...I've since learned to just go with the flow and trust that for every Rocky D there will be someone who will play far above his 'star' rating.