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Jamie Newberg article, "Best Ive ever seen"
Posted on 4/21/14 at 2:43 pm
Posted on 4/21/14 at 2:43 pm
giving Louisiana guys some love
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Who are the bluest of blue chip recruits I have seen over the past two-plus decades?
My first class back in 1992 highlighted a young man from Baton Rouge (La.) Catholic named Warrick Dunn. What a way to start, right? Dunn was the first of so many elite running backs from the state of Louisiana over the years. Remember Travis Minor (Baton Rouge Catholic)? There was also Cecil Collins (Leesville), Anthony Thomas (Winnfield), Joe McKnight (River Ridge John Curtis), Shyrone Carey (New Orleans Shaw) and I am sure I am forgetting a player or two. Just last year our top prospect in the country for Scout.com was from New Orleans St. Augustine, running back Leonard Fournette.
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How fitting it is that my favorite back is from Louisiana? It’s Kevin Faulk. He actually starred at quarterback for Carencro. Simply, Faulk was dazzling with the football in his hands. He was the ultimate weapon in space and simply electric. He went on and had a brilliant career at LSU and was a good player for a long time in New England.
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I will keep it short on tight end. Believe it or not, Glen “Big Baby” Davis was an outstanding football prospect as a tight end, offensive tackle and defensive tackle. Big Baby was just a big athlete. At one time we had him ranked as a top five overall recruit in the nation. If you don’t believe me, check out this film here.
Have you seen a tight end with that kind of size run a bubble screen and do 360-spin moves in the open field? It was a first for me. That video crashed our servers... twice. Davis gave up football to concentrate on basketball his senior season at Baton Rouge University Lab.
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Arguably the greatest player of this generation is Peyton Manning (New Orleans Isidore Newman). To think, I actually sat in studio with him in 1994 on the set of CTSD. Then, Manning won the Bobby Dodd Award given by the Atlanta Touchdown Club over Josh Booty (Shreveport, La./Evangel Christian Academy). It was the high school equivalent of the Heisman Trophy. It never crossed my mind at the time that this tall, skinny kid from New Orleans, who was headed to Knoxville, would become an all-timer.
Manning and Booty started a terrific QB run of recruits, especially in the south. A few years later Tim Couch (Hyden, Ky./Leslie County) and Quincy Carter (Decatur, Ga./S.W. DeKalb) came out the same year in 1996.
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Ryan Perrilloux (LaPlace, La./East St. John), like Carter, was a supreme disappoint because of actions away from the game. Perrilloux was Winston with a better arm, if you can imagine that.
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Posted on 4/21/14 at 2:50 pm to Lester Earl
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Perrilloux was Winston with a better arm, if you can imagine that.
Damn it Perrilloux
Posted on 4/21/14 at 2:58 pm to weisertiger
Ryan Perriloux....6 Heismans
Posted on 4/21/14 at 2:58 pm to weisertiger
LSU would have won at least 1 more title if Perriloux wasn't a moron.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 3:22 pm to Mattwells90
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LSU would have won at least 1 more title if Perriloux wasn't a moron.
Not so sure about that. 2008 defense wasn't good enough, and he probably would have gone pro after that.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 3:25 pm to MajorTiger
Don't need defense when you have Ryan Perrilloux.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 3:30 pm to Lester Earl
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I will keep it short on tight end. Believe it or not, Glen “Big Baby” Davis was an outstanding football prospect as a tight end, offensive tackle and defensive tackle. Big Baby was just a big athlete. At one time we had him ranked as a top five overall recruit in the nation. If you don’t believe me, check out this film here.
Was hoping to see some film, but you need a login.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 3:33 pm to MajorTiger
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Not so sure about that. 2008 defense wasn't good enough, and he probably would have gone pro after that.
True but with RP playing in 08, you may have gotten more out of Jarrett Lee in 2010 and 2011.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 3:35 pm to Mattwells90
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LSU would have won at least 1 more title if Perriloux wasn't a moron.
Not only that but he put us back 3 to 4 years
Posted on 4/21/14 at 3:43 pm to MajorTiger
That defense was put in bad situations with the picks. If RP played we didn't put them in those situations.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 3:48 pm to Lester Earl
Big Baby's hl reel is unreal! dude looks like a big dump truck toting the load through midgets...that was to much for me!!!
Posted on 4/21/14 at 3:50 pm to CP3LSU25
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Not only that but he put us back 3 to 4 years
i totally agree. Jefferson and Lee were thrown out to the wolves when Perrilloux was kicked off the team....those guys never fully developed.
The "A" Train Anthony Thomas was a bad boy too tho. How in the heck did LSU let him get out the state?
This post was edited on 4/21/14 at 3:53 pm
Posted on 4/21/14 at 3:52 pm to jrevonte
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Big Baby's hl reel is unreal! dude looks like a big dump truck toting the load through midgets...that was to much for me!!!
Jimbo Fisher said he was the best OL prospect he had EVER seen. I don't remember the exact quote, but I think he went further and said he was HOF material or All Pro....
Posted on 4/21/14 at 3:54 pm to Lester Earl
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Perrilloux was Winston with a better arm, if you can imagine that.
I would say faster and stronger as well...
Posted on 4/21/14 at 3:57 pm to GeeOH
to hell with Winston...How does Brandon Harris stack up to Perrilloux? i see some resemblance. Perrilloux threw a beautiful deep ball tho...i haven't seen Harris perform under pressure yet. so i will reserve judgment.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 4:00 pm to jrevonte
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i totally agree. Jefferson and Lee were thrown out to the wolves when Perrilloux was kicked off the team....those guys never fully developed.
it's a mistake I don't think Miles will ever make again.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 4:01 pm to jrevonte
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i totally agree. Jefferson and Lee were thrown out to the wolves when Perrilloux was kicked off the team....those guys never fully developed
Yep, that one really hurt us long term.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 4:51 pm to Bear Is Dead
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True but with RP playing in 08, you may have gotten more out of Jarrett Lee in 2010 and 2011.
Why? Lee still had Crowton as QB coach and OC.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 5:39 pm to Lester Earl
Watching Perriloux run the option vs Florida was a thing of beauty, that and the SEC Championship vs Tennessee.
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