re: 4 Years from now, if you were to re-rank this class ...

We’ve never had a shtty class, Ed O’s first class was #15 although not our standard. Les’s first class was 20 again though not our standard not shtty. CBK’s first class w/portal now calculated in was Top 5. 247 has us 5, #7 composite, On3 has us #6. The one thing CBK does is recruit needs and quality. Our OL is now comparable to any elite program in the country same as TE (young but stacked). We’ve lost out on some huge guys no doubt, we’ve slow played McKinley but I believe he has a chip against LSU because he developed late into elite status and before that he was the type of player Texas gets from Louisiana, good player but not elite so they were on him early and got lucky he progressed into elite and there’s probably hurt feelings that LSU didn’t go all in. Ward I just don’t think wants to go LSU, there’s always one or two it’s just that way. But on the other hand J Howard #1 n Minnesota, Womack #1 in Maryland, they left their state but also had every opportunity to choose closer to home programs in the Top 10. A prime example at this minute is Stamps a recruited DB that is showing out right now and really wanted LSU. I want the highest ranked players regardless of which state they come from and CBK is learning the landscape everyday. I wish he would be a little more cutthroat but we will never be able to outbid Texas or a$m regardless. If Frank cannot persuade Mack or McKinley to LSU with whatever means he has, surely you don’t think CBK can at this point in his LSU career. CBK has to prove it on the field. The highest recruit in state recruit we most recently missed on was Anderson 5* to Bama, he’s in a LSU uni playing for CBK. I’m not a wait til next year guy but 25 is setting up to be a program changing year from a recruitment standpoint but on the field also in 24. CBK had said himself we’re a year away even though he EXCEEDED anyone’s expectations and you’re a liar if u say otherwise. As far as Simmons to Texas, he was LSU’s Fournette. Make or break for Sark. We’ve got Caden right now, and Texas’s #1 player committed in Moore. I’m not naive to think there recruitment is over by a long shot. It’s an early commitment but it’s to LSU and there’s 30 other programs would kill to be in that position right now. I love this crewtn stuff but it is a roller coaster of emotions that our feelings or input as no meaning in it. We will be fine.

This is a class, that from looking at it 16 players never finished at LSU.

2019

HEAD COACH ED ORGERON
OL Anthony Bradford ^ (Muskegon, Mich./Muskegon HS)
S Marcel Brooks ^ (Flower Mound, Texas/Marcus HS)
RB Tyrion Davis-Price ^ (Baton Rouge, La./Southern Lab HS)
RB John Emery Jr. ^ (Destrehan, La./Destrehan HS)
DL Joseph Evans ^ (Haynesville, La./Haynesville HS)
CB Cordale Flott ^ (Saraland, Ala./Saraland HS)
OLB Soni Fonua (Salt Lake City, Utah/Mesa CC/East HS)
DB Maurice Hampton Jr. (Arlington, Tenn./Memphis University School)
NT Siaki Ika ^ (Salt Lake City, Utah/East HS)
CB Raydarious Jones ^ (Horn Lake, Miss./Horn Lake HS)
WR Devonta Lee (Amite, La./Amite HS)
OLB Desmond Little (Mobile, Ala./Vigor HS)
LB Kendall McCallum ^ (Oxford, Ala./Oxford HS)
TE TK McLendon ^ (Soperton, Ga./Copiah-Lincoln CC/Treulton HS)
WR Trey Palmer ^ (Kentwood, La./Kentwood HS)
TE Ray Parker (Ruston, La./Ruston HS)
QB Peter Parrish ^ (Phenix City, Ala./Central HS)
OL Thomas Perry ^ (Lafayette, La./Teurlings Catholic HS)
SNP Quentin Skinner ^ (Buford, Ga./Buford HS)
LB Donte Starks ^ (Marrero, La./John Ehret HS)
CB Derek Stingley Jr. ^ (Baton Rouge, La./Dunham School)
OL Kardell Thomas ^ (Baton Rouge, La./Southern Lab HS)
TE Charles Turner ^ (Canton, Ohio/IMG Academy)
CB Jay Ward (Moultrie, Ga./Colquitt County HS)
PK Cade York ^ (Prosper, Texas/Prosper HS)

When you lose around half your class, odds are, too many things could have went wrong.
Keeping kids in class, player development, player evaluation, etc all go into keeping together a roster.

Coming off that championship season, the 2019 should have been one of our best ever.

Failing to capitalize on the greatest season of all time is a failure of epic proportions.

no way of knowing, but guys like Ashton Stamps, Prean, Sampson, seem to have been under evaluated thus far.

What we don’t know is who was over evaluated, as the coaches don’t let out the info as to who is not impressive.