re: Dexter Blackmon commits..

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Les better hit on a few of these fliers he's taken the last couple of years. If he misses on all of them, the natives will get restless. If he hits on most, he'll be a genius.

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This.

Especially the OL. He took a bunch of lower ranked guys in '08 that we have yet to really see how they pan out. We've heard some good reports about some of them, but they have yet to step on the field.

Guys like Lonergan and Hurst need to be homeruns from Les.

Also, I would just like to add that the "trust the coaches" mantra is not exactly the most accurate thing in the world--They miss on about 50% of the prospects that sign with LSU.

The fanbase has been right on many occasions as well when the coaching staff 'passed' on them for whatever reason. It goes both ways whether some like to recognize that or not. Coaches are not gods and they make plenty of mistakes.

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simply not true. Rivals guy saw him at the UT camp and raved about him. people were thinking he would get an offer at the previous camp before this one. the youtube videos of him at UT were posted here as well after the UT camp.

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First of all, I wasn't saying that RIVALS didn't say anything about him. I was saying nobody HERE said anything about him. I'm not saying you full of it, but I didn't see anything about Mathieu until 2 nights ago. And when he committed, there were skeptics...although not this bad. Then today when Mathieu is shown to have a nice 4* rating by Rivals, all is well.
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Do you really (not you in particular) think that the coaches just said "Eh, what the hell...I feel sorry for the kid having to live in Alabama...let's give him a free scholly"??

Williford will be very telling, as well.

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Does anyone on this board live in Alabama near Selma?

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I live about 1 hour south of Selma and follow HS football pretty closely. I've never heard of the guy. I'll see if any of the people around here have heard of him. HS football is a religion around these parts.

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I bet over 50% of that town don't even have the internetz. Dem some poor folk that live there

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Then i can pull up in My Isuzu Trooper...with tinted windows step out like a star and be like JimmyD bitch whats hattenin'.

edwards/peterson had katrina effects against them

they were pretty hot names once anyone knew who they were though, correct?

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also can throw in DeAngelo Peterson to the hidden gem category maybe. the first rivals update on him was 5/22/07

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Peterson went to high school in Baton Rouge--It is hard to say a guy that lives in the same city as the college you coach in is a "hidden gem."

Also, he is another guy that is yet to prove anything--but he does look very promising.

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edwards/peterson had katrina effects against them

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Edwards was a big time prospect from the very beginning.

Both Peterson and Lavar went to Desire Street Academy in Baton Rouge, LA.

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Pretty much every program takes guys like Johns or Bates.

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true, just not this early though.


and the hidden gem thing shouldnt be a knock when 90% of the guys he gets are guys plenty of good schools want.

every program has a few guys to fill the class. Usually never expected to be more than SP guys at best.

I am hitting the yellow pages tomorrow making some calls to some Selmanites. A little research in the name of journalism shall work just fine.