re: Eating lunch at the Boston yesterday in Amite

This thread is junk i live in Amite and have heard nothing about sopsher being a lock for Alabama. Coach O did in home visits with Lee and Sopsher on Sunday. Im an Lsu fan but i would be turned away from Lsu if i was him and seen this thread. Yall are doing nothing but hurting Lsu by bashing the Coaches and Recruits. Speak Positive and Positive things will happen.

I find it surprising that a Great Recruiter / Defensive Line Guru cannot recruit any talented D-Linemen year after year. If Fehoko wouldn't have transferred here we would have been in a big bind on the defensive line!

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Mr England is speaking the truth. O was hired to win these battles. We’re in dire need of Dlinemen and he can’t get the best in our backyard. We can’t win if these type of players keep going to Bama. Point blank

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Exactly. The Coach O worshippers don't get it. So far, Orgeron has not shown where he's any better at recruiting than CLM. And recruiting was what the O worshippers all raved to everybody was his special forte. This was the THE one reason I was sold on his hire as HC. Like I've said before, I'm underwhelmed so far. Hopefully, Coach O will surprise me and get players like Sopsher and Surtain, Jr. in the future.

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Nobody in this thread is "worshipping" Orgeron and nobody that knows anything ever thought Orgeron would be a better recruiter than Miles.

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Jeezus, all you people do is defend Orgeron at every turn. Don't tell me that there aren't a lot of O worshippers here. And yes, there WERE people insisting that if we got Orgeron on board, that he would give us the edge in recruiting (and not just at D-line, which btw, he's been rather underwhelming so far).

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eezus, all you people do is defend Orgeron at every turn.

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I've said numerous times in this thread that defensive line recruiting is disappointing this year. I'm critical or Orgeron when I feel it's warranted. I just do not agree that it's warranted in the case of Sopsher, if he doesn't come to LSU.

Other than committing major violations, I'm not sure what else Orgeron could have done to get him.

But, am I happy that we only have one defensive line recruit at this point in the cycle? Of course not. That's a concern and I hope he's able to land some solid guys in the home stretch.

As for you believe any idiot who said Orgeron was a better recruiter than Miles, well, that's on you, buddy. People say a lot of dumb shite on this message board. My personal feelings were that I hoped there wouldn't be much, or any, drop off in recruiting going from Orgeron to Miles. So far, I think he's done ok.

In 2017 he had the #7 ranked class, which was the highest ever for an incoming coach. Obviously, it helped that he was already on staff, but he still did a great job holding the class together and adding some huge pieces at the wire.

2018 was sub par, but talent in the state was down and he did a good job of adding depth along the lines. Hines, Marshall, Chase and Joseph are future studs and Rosenthal MIGHT be a very good left tackle who can lock that position down for the next 2-3 years. And hopefully, some of those defensive line prospects will develop into solid rotation guys.

2019 we're ranked 5th with 5-7 spots left to fill and really only one glaring weakness, which is defensive line.

This is an extremely good recruiting class so far and there's a lot of time left to fill the holes, regardless if we land Sopsher or not.

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the laughable assertion that no coach could possibly recruit in the town of Amite because it was bought and paid for by Bama

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I didn't read where anyone said that no coach could recruit Amite. By all accounts, it's looking good for us to get Devonta Lee out of Amite and we got Trey Palmer out of nearby Kentwood (you know, where one of Alabama's starting defensive backs is from).

People have said that if Orgeron can't get SOPSHER, then no coach was likely going to get him. Forget about the possibility of money being involved, Sopsher's dad, Vincent Sanders and Sam Petito were high school buddies and played football together. That's a pretty huge relationship to pull a guy away from. It would be different if Petito was a Ole Miss or something, but he's at Alabama.

If one of your high school buddies was recruiting your kid to come play at the best program in the country, that was only about 4 hours away, you'd probably be pretty interested, right? Or am I just being an O worshiper for understanding how the specifics of this recruit might be impossible to overcome?

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PMT

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Is that what we're going to call our podcast?

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Sospher is not going to LSU, it’s alabama. And, this made me sick all the Alabama gear being worn around that small town. As O would say he ain’t coming

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Is this really a surprise to anyone. We have been saying for over a year he is all Bama, even when Bama wasnt even in his "Top 5"

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who are you thinking we should get as a sponsor?

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Manda fine meats

I just spent two months around Amite, ate at Mikes, Boston, coop deville, corner, talked to coaches at Amite, oak forest, Indy, and ponch. Not one person said he was going to Bama or LSU. I did not see anything out of the ordinary for Bama gear. In fact go watch a n LSU game in Tangi parish and look who they root for, it’s damn sure not Bama.