Brian Kelly from ND to LSU... recruiting the Catholic school community to LSU?

We get a lot of those kids anyway if we want them.

I think They’re a little under scouted

But Chase Moore and Fulton we’re all top Rummel guys we wanted and got.

We have an insane history with St Aug.

Obviously Catholic has been good to us

This is not that deep dude.

Nothing to do with it

We already get most of the kids we want from these schools. Kids we don’t get that we want are looking for a different type of college experience at a better academic school than LSU.

I think they are looking for a new culture at LSU and to try to build a more respectable student athlete culture in the program rather than selling it as NFLSU and have kids come in looking to jump ship early and opt out to concentrate on the draft and all the other ills we have been experiencing. Looking for. A team culture

I think LSU is already there to be honest. Use Jesuit as an example. They typically graduate about 250 kids a year, with somewhere around 100-130 going to LSU of that total and the vast majority of the rest being one-off attendees who want to get away or are going to a niche academic program. The next biggest groups of attendees are typically a dozen or so to Alabama, Ole Miss, and ULL. Holy Cross, Rummel, Brother Martin, St Paul's have similar splits. Catholic of BR is even more LSU-slanted.

From an athletic standpoint, if LSU wants a guy, they are typically eager to attend from any of the Catholic schools. Rarely do they get poached. That's definitely been the case in baseball (Morgan, Helmers recently with a laundry list over time) and has generally been the case with football (Fournette, Matheiu, Chase, Fulton, Clapp, Moreau come to mind recently).

This probably is a larger discussion of the direction of LSU's academics and TOPS, but nearby SEC institutions, especially Bama and Ole Miss, have become much more aggressive with the academic scholarship packages they offer to draw kids out of state.

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