re: Herron, Bain, Gilmore not playing much

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Bad recruiting? Not getting coached up? Do we blame those 3?

How does 1 5 star and 2 4 star DLine guys not contribute in 2 years.

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unfortunately coaching is the primary answer, and recruiting. enough repetition can correct mindlessness. danny mccray would be one example who was always out of position in college and had a good couple of years at the next level

there are two main philosophies of recruiting:

1) get the big, fast, strong guy and teach him technique. That is, don't place as much emphasis on his high school performance, brains (unless QB) b/c the young man may have gone to a small school and blown up everyone, but it's irrelevant due to competition. Then you take the big strong fast guy and force him to be better (or process him??)

2) get the over-achieving guy with brains, or try to get some combination of 1 and 2.

LSU tries to combine both, and unfortunately, you can't always have it both ways (unless patrick peterson and a few others). this could mask coaching shortcomings if you have enough pat petersons, et al


by the way, this is the primary thing that saban changed in his general philosophy when he came back to college