re: I think the staff dropped the ball on Laron Byrd

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You gotta play the damn game

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why?

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You gotta play the damn game

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know why?

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You gotta play the damn game

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What an intelligent thread-starter? Question a staff who has many, many years of actual recruiting experience AND has just led your team to the National Championship. Of course, you KNOW what should have been done better than they! You must be from Hahnville! Byrd was nowhere near getting a take by LSU; he was way down the list.

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What an intelligent thread-starter? Question a staff who has many, many years of actual recruiting experience AND has just led your team to the National Championship. Of course, you KNOW what should have been done better than they! You must be from Hahnville! Byrd was nowhere near getting a take by LSU; he was way down the list.

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ah yes, the "never question the staff" approach. to say byrd was nowhere near a take is absurd and IMO completely discredits your post. the dude was thought by many to possibly be the best reciever in the state. and no i don't have a connection to hahnville. i was simply trying to get the feelings of other fans on mr. byrd and his recruitment. please try to contribute to the thread instead of flaming it with your coach worship.

This thread in in the running for the RANT's most clueless thread of the Week Award.

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it is a discussion on whether or not byrd should or shouldn't have gotten an offer. i have faith in the guys we have, but this being a message board i wanted to gage the interest of other tiger fans on the subject.

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As far as him being talented enough to get an offer I would say he probably was. As someone stated earlier, one of the main reasons he didnt get an offer was because he didnt show up for camp. This means that the LSU coaches didnt get a chance to evaluate him in person as much as they would have liked.
I think they chose to offer Molton instead of Byrd because they felt they had a better handle on what his abilities and potential were. And to them Byrd was a little more of an unknown because they weren't able to evaluate him as fully as they would have liked.

I just don't go there questioning the coaching staffs decision on what recruits they take. There are way too many other issues involved besides talent. There's grades, character, physical growth, family backgrounds, maturity, leadership skills, etc. The coaching staff is trying to put together the best team that will work best with our coaching staff and other players.

Get this, being from Texas I wanted Miles to hire Major Applewhite when he went to Bama. Man, was I dead wrong on that one. There were many Tiger fans who questioned that hiring. There are Tiger fans questioning the Co-Defensive Coordinators decision.

I think you are going a little strong. A better way to approach the subject is to ask how they make decisions like this. Of course the answer is we don't know aside from just their evaluation process. Damn, there's that word "process" again!

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What an intelligent thread-starter? Question a staff who has many, many years of actual recruiting experience AND has just led your team to the National Championship

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It's a message board. It was a good topic to debate/discuss.

If we had it your way every topic would be-

"we are the best"
"our coaches are the best"
"Saban is a meanie"
"ESPN hates us"

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how so? discussing whether or not we should have taken molton over byrd is not that

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Besides your clueless opinions, what do you have to discuss? Nothing!

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I wish Molton would somehow become a star, because this has Big Mistake written all over it.

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Huh...not so fast, my friend.

Not that signing Byrd would have been a mistake either. I was very impressed with P.J.'s accolades about Molton (he didn't say anything about latiger09 though....i'm still working on that)....#13 doesn't say much period, let alone just randomly heap praise somewhere. If he says a guy is a beast, then he is a beast.

No, but I expect he knows him. Hahnville has some players that are friends with P.J. and so I'm sure they've met. I'll ask him, now that you mention it...what he thinks of comparing the two head-to-head. Most of these prospects watch a little film of the other studs. Or at least McKnight did. He wanted to see what the other blue-chips were about.