re: Malik McDowell: Five Star, SDE

Checklist for a recruit: look for a program’s stability in a head coach; build a solid relationship with a position coach; ask about a program’s depth chart; and find out how he’ll be used in that program’s package. Kind of difficult in the SEC top programs this year with all the coaching changes...nod to LSU.

Malik just has too many schools at this point and he tends to be too nice and a bit indecisive with so many options. Lorenzo on the other hand is reported to be LSU, UGA, or FLA with UGA thinking he is an out of state lean like most Georgia top recruits this year. His visit supposedly went very well especially with the parents and the academic "engineering major" part.

Yes, hope we still get McDowell here for an OV. But this board will never know what happened in the Miles and Haley visits, only that the recruits, their coaches, and their parents are impressed.

I invite you to read my posts which are documentaries 'ad nauseum' entirely focused on the recruitment by Chavis, Haley, and Miles of these two ends: Lorenzo Carter and Malik McDowell, with the goal of having a 2011-12 Mingo/Montgomer/Edwards pass rush. I hated to see McCarron sacked only 10 times all season before OU sacked him 7 times with 2 INTs and a strip and score, and read over and over about how great he was when they have had such a soft schedule for 6 yrs. We keep losing record numbers of sophomores and juniors to the draft. The coaches are doing their jobs too well! We need to graduate some top players and believe it or not Fournette wants multiple degrees, and education is a priority for Malik and Lorenzo.

I claim no special insight but raising expectations by presenting summaries of hours of research on their interviews and videos and the recruits desire to go to LSU because we put defensive ends in the league and offer a winning tradition and quality education that they both seek, of that I am guilty.