re: Are we really losing ground in recruiting or have our players been undervalued?

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Les Miles and staff has accumulated some great talent over since he has been here. Every year we are considered one of the most talented teams in the country. Why are we getting such low ratings by the recruiting sites. Rivals had last year's class ranked 18th. This season ESPN has us at 13th. I think this class looks extremely strong. But are we looking at things thru P&G shades or are we really not getting top end guys?

Edit: Conclusion, ESPN sucks

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You have to consider WHO is responsible for evaluating the talent in-state for the bigger outfits.

ESPN is pretty unreliable in general.

Rivals is Scike Scarborough. There's nobody there that doesn't realize by now that guy sucks. He's been mailing it in for several years now and was never a truly accurate film grader or talent evaluator of any note to begin with.

He was asking folks as recently as a month or so back who John Diarse was at a 7 on 7 competition.

Scout is...Who again? Randy Ro-freaking-setta? What a joke.

Now 247 is the new player but they are up and comers and ultimately, you'll see those rankings-especially in 2014 & 2015-start to improve thanks to Sonny & Shea putting in time and effort on the recruiting front to rank the STATE.

They profile and analyze the STATE, and not just the kids LSU is after.

But you see us undervalued because we have guys running sites that are completely asleep at the wheel with one notably excellent exception.