re: Langlois offered by LSU

I can’t speak to the TE Bama signed because I’m not familiar with the situation. Star ratings mean very little to me, if a guy like extended an offer that tells me he was not a 3-star in Sabans eyes. Remember, Josh Jacobs was some scrub 3-star from Oklahoma that Saban signed despite being on the heels of multiple Heisman winners at RB.

Context is everything. If Saban targeted the TE and camped him then you trust the eval and not the ranking. In this case with Langlois, he’s a local kid that didn’t get to improve his status with LSU at a camp this summer so what we do know is that Busch/Raymond went after Collier, Mukuba et al at first because they were clearly higher on the board, then when we started striking out they offered this kid late. That is typically not a great move.

Again, star rankings are not part of this conversation. LSU gets commitments from kids all the time that are not highly rated but the difference is you can tell the coaches knew what they had and targeted them early. Some of our best players the last decade or more fit this very profile. So, again, big difference than what’s going on here. Context matters.