re: Rothstein: Naz Reid expected to commit to LSU

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Uh, what? I know that people have seemingly erased everything positive from Jones time here, but he absolutely was a very good recruiter. Had no business getting Jarrell Martin and Jordan Mickey for his first full class.

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Very good is a little misleading. If he was very good, Wade wouldn't have been left with a roster full of guys he felt he needed to cut.

The positives with Johnny is he knew how to play the recruiting game, he knew how to get Simmons, and thus Blakeney. He played up the connections to get Mickey and convinced Martin to stay home. Quarterman was considered a big land from GA.

On the other end, he was either pretty much boom or bust when it came to recruiting. He either got what could be or is a really good player or basically a non contributor/bad to mediocre player. Not a lot of gray area.

When Wade came in he saw right away Jenkins, Patterson, ER III and Hayward were just roster dead weight. Guys who couldn't play or be coached on this kind of level.

All is well and good to land some really good players, but you have to get capable role players too, and that's something Johnny really kind of lacked the ability to do.