re: Re Devonta Smith: Check out the top 6 players in Louisiana that year.

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There are reasons to criticize O. But his ability to keep in-state talent at LSU isn't one of them. Like you said, Sopsher is the only guy I can think of since 2018 who LSU REALLY wanted and didn't get.

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I went through year by year on the RB a week or two ago, and there are only three top-10 LA recruits who have gone to Bama since 2018: Sopsher (2019), Christian Harris (2019), and Kaine Williams (2021). I don’t think we recruited Harris (though in hindsight we probably should have). Sopsher was a bust. And Williams would have been the #3 safety in our 2021 class.

People are still salty over Moses, Smith, etc. and I get that, but Orgeron has done a pretty good job of getting the LA guys he’s targeted since the interim year.