Harold Joiner - Where's the love?

For reasons that are not always clear, some recruits each year get more buzz than they deserve and some less. Pooka Williams, a very smallish lowly ranked rb with grade problems and a small offer list got a ton of buzz. Chris Curry has become somewhat of a board favorite with a national player rank of 235. And then there is Harold Joiner, an ESPN top 100 player and the 6th best rb in the country by the 247 rankings and a top 150 player who no one talks about much.

Some takes on players become popular and then get repeated enough on boards that they become fact. Pooka is an exciting player who put up big numbers and became board ordained ads the next Dexter McCluster. Curry somehow got the under rated lunchpail player tag that stuck with him. Joiner got painted with some softer than he looks brush and now few seem excited about LSU getting maybe its best back of the class.

Of course one never really knows who will be the best back. There is nothing more misleading than a high light tape of a high school back making 80 yd runs through 150 pound defensive backs. They all look all world on tape.

I have never seen Joiner, Williams, Curry or Provens play, so I have no real opinion on who will be best.

I do know this. Almost all of the rating services have Joiner way higher rated than any of these other backs. Joiner has by far the most impressive offer list, being offered by most every top program including Bama, Auburn, Georgia, Texas and Southern Cal.

LSU seems poised to sign him, but there has been almost zero buzz on here compared to other similarly rated blue chips.

Well I am pretty fired up. Joiner reminds me of Alfred Blue, a big rangy back. I think LSU fans need to start showing him the love. Provens is not an every down back. LSU needs two true running backs in this class. Getting Joiner, the third ranked player in Alabama, would be huge to me.