exactly. dinardo started a good run until mack browns fat arse took carl reese with him to texas, then dinardo wouldnt fire tepper after it was obvious he was in over his head as dc at lsu.

that said, dinardo had great recruiting classes. all the talk about saban bringing another level of talent to br is false. dinardo had great recruiting classes. hell, even hallman had a couple of top 5s.

the cupboard wasnt bare when saban got here, else he wouldnt have won the sec in his second year.

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Posted by Ace Midnight

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Posted on 11/1/14 at 9:55 am to RightHook

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all the talk about saban bringing another level of talent to br is false.

Matt Mauck was about the top OOS guy that there is no way we get without Nicky being the HC.

The "big 3" of the 2001 class, Marquise Hill (New Orleans), Marcus Spears (BR) and Michael Clayton (BR) would have been easy gets for any competent coach at LSU. Getting Joe Addai out of Houston and Ben Wilkerson out of Tyler were good OOS pulls, but Texas has long been tilled by LSU.

Even the phenomenal 2004 class - with 5 All Americans - Glenn Dorsey, Ali Highsmith, Herman Johnson, Craig Steltz and Claude Wroten - 4/5 of those were Louisiana prospects.

He's done far more pilfering at Bama, with their unlimited recruiting budget, than he ever did at LSU - although I do not question that he is one of the top recruiters in CFB history - just not a magical one.

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Posted by theknightswhosay

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Posted on 11/1/14 at 3:27 pm to RightHook

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dinardo started a good run until mack browns fat arse took carl reese

I didn't remember all that. I knew our defense went to shite, but I didn't know why.

In '95 LSU goes to their first bowl game since '88 (only their second bowl win since McClendon), which is huge for recruiting. Then they win 19 games in the two seasons after that. They were getting better athletes than they had gotten since Arnsparger. You could see that talent was there in the next two seasons even though the wins weren't.

I'm tired of people acting like the LSU football program was Lazarus and Nick was Jesus.

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