re: Will O pull scholarship offers in order to bring in more linemen?

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that's partly Grimes fault too for not recruiting the guys who can be maintained here.

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Not sure about this. We simply don't have the line talent in Louisiana. That means we have to find most of them out of state. Our coaches recruit regions more than they recruit positions. So Grimes has to depend on other coaches to pluck linemen from their regions.

I'm sure the coaches cross over to recruit their position too. I'm just saying it's not so clear cut.

This board has lionized Corey Raymond, and I'm sure he is an excellent recruiter, but we've had great defensive backfields, almost without interruption, for 40 years. That's because we're loaded with that type of athlete here in Louisiana. I think that Patrick Peterson, Tyrann Mathieu and Mo Claiborne, coming on the heels of one another, made LSU a DB destination. Along with Raymond's recruiting prowess, these things have combined to make LSU DBU.

On the oline we're missing two of those three factors - even IF Grimes is a good recruiter.