re: Please Chill Out Guys

Yes, I'm sure they did lose some after the NCG. I would be foolish to think otherwise. To me, the bottom line of this class is that you had a tremendous amount of negativity associated with the program following that game and we lost some fringe recruits who could be swayed by that negativity. In exchange I think the staff did a pretty nice job recovering from that by swaying a Safety to switch from A&M to take the place of Collins. They got a "Large" QB to fill the spot vacated by Kiel. Obviously on paper that doesn't look like an even swap but only time will tell and the good thing about Liggens is that if he doesn't work at QB you now have a guy that is versatile, athletic and could be moved to another position. Staff picked up Alexander, #3 prospect in Alabama, to fill slot of Davis. On paper that looks pretty good. Otherwise they pretty much held everyone else they planned to get.

Would it have been nice to pick up a big receiver and a couple of other national recruits. Sure, but so would everyone else want to get those things as well. I think this was a bit of a down year in La. and hopefully next year will bring a higher ranking but at the end of the day we need to remember we won 13 ball games this year with very little QB play. Pretty amazing if you ask me. We just signed a top 15 class by all accounts and that means it is better than 100 other schools in Div. 1 .

Perhaps my perspective as an elder statesman in age allows me to enjoy some of these things, because it wasn't always this way at LSU. Those on here who would spew their venom, which does nothing to build up what we have but serves only to tear it down, would be well served to pull out their history books and look back only a few years and realize these are the golden years of LSU athletics. Please try to tone down the negativity, enjoy where we are and celebrate it and try and be a help rather than a hinderance to the process you claim to be so interested in.