re: Handicapping Malachi Dupre

I see nothing but LSU recruits or current LSU players for who he's following. Maybe I take that too much into account but it's still a good sign since that he's befriended those guys instead of multiple FSU/UCLA players.

Let's not act like every college stadium is completely packed every Saturday.

Tallahassee itself does kinda suck, but there is no reason to really go more then a few miles off campus in any direction

So my

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UCLA-1
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quote from the other thread about the JC trio may be spot on?

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Lsu does not have better facilities than bama. You are fricking crazy if you think so. Bryant Denny is impressive and puts dv to shame. Tallahassee is baton rouge, but here's the kicker, it is in Florida.

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Denny is a nice stadium but to say it put tiger stadium to shame you are just talking out or your arse....

besides tiger stadium , there is no away stadium I have been to more than BD ....

it's nice but it's not Death Valley ......

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Honestly, I don't see him playing next year much if he commits to the Tigers for three reasons.

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Probably not what a 5-star wants to hear.

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Tiger fan huh? fricking idiot

For those thinking UCLA is Chi's choice, ask yourself one question... Who was UCLA's last wideout to be drafted and last in the league longer than 4 seasons? LSU is a more logical choice for Chi as it has the offensive system to feature him and put him into the league with a better college stat sheet.



Answer would probably be Matthew Slater, who plays 95% of his snaps on special teams for the Pats haha

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Have you ever been to Tallahassee? The city is a total dump and they fill up the stadium maybe once a year.

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sounds like us

Flipper Anderson...I'm older!

Your Mercedes Lewis argument is null and void because he is a tight end. Dupre is a wideout so lets stick to wideouts. Even then, with Brett Hundley at QB (which has been your best QB in the past decade)your leading receiver only had 700 yards on the year. We just produced 2 1000 yard receivers. I don't think UCLA would showcase a wideout the same way a Cam Cameron LSU offense would. If Dupre makes the logical pick, based on targets he will receive, LSU should be the destination.


ETA: The previous regimes still had the UCLA selling point to bring in big recruits and they never produced (m)any NFL wideouts. Even when LSU had its lackluster offense's, we still put a few guys in the league (LaFell, Doucet, and Randle).

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Your Mercedes Lewis argument is null and void because he is a tight end. Dupre is a wideout so lets stick to wideouts. Even then, with Brett Hundley at QB (which has been your best QB in the past decade)your leading receiver only had 700 yards on the year. We just produced 2 1000 yard receivers. I don't think UCLA would showcase a wideout the same way a Cam Cameron LSU offense would. If Dupre makes the logical pick, based on targets he will receive, LSU should be the destination.

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Our offense lacked game-breakers, due largely to the failures of previous regimes to stock the cupboards with such players, so instead of relying on big name players for big plays, our offense was predicated on spreading the ball around. I think over 20 players had catches in games this year. Hell, four defensive linemen had catches in games this year.

The vast majority of our WRs are big, possession types with limited speed, so we had to tailor our offense around that. Any big plays were designed plays to go deep that came after lulling a defense to sleep with the short stuff. I'm not sure I can remember a single play in which a WR caught a five-yard pass and turned it into a 50-yard gain with pure speed or making people miss. Our YAC numbers were abysmal because our receivers are big guys with limited wiggle.

If we get the horses, we'll let them run. We just didn't have them this year, but we're trying to change that by going after guys like Dupre.

You're right though, LSU has the track record under Cameron that UCLA doesn't. No dispute there. I'm just trying to explain why our offense was the way it was.

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The previous regimes still had the UCLA selling point to bring in big recruits and they never produced (m)any NFL wideouts. Even when LSU had its lackluster offense's, we still put a few guys in the league (LaFell, Doucet, and Randle).

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Think you're underestimating how bad UCLA's offenses were at that point, especially when you consider that UCLA's nadir coincided with the height of the Pete Carroll era at USC. Under Neuheisel, there were years when we didn't bring in even one wide receiver in the entire class. That's how much of a turn-off his system was to WRs. UCLA has only brought in two top 20 WR recruits since 2002 [link= https://ucla.scout.com/a.z?s=12&p=9&c=8&yr=2014[/link]. That's two top 20 kids, and not a single 5 star, in 12 years.

So when our system was so bad that we couldn't bring in even the raw talent to mold, then how could we produce NFL players? It just doesn't work that way. That's how bad things got at UCLA before Mora, and that's the stench he's still trying to fight off now in recruiting elite skill players.

All the guys you name checked were elite recruits, so they could have been drafted on raw talent regardless of how they did at LSU. UCLA didn't even have underperforming 5-stars at WR for a while. We've had underperforming 3-stars.