re: Jalen Lee decommitment official

Damn I liked him. Hopefully it works out for us. He’ll land somewhere easily, just hopefully not a rival

Sometimes the coach’s evaluation of a player is not the same as a recruiting site. Just saying.....

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If you were a top in state talent, would you commit to play for Ed O knowing if something better came from out of state you would be processed?

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Damn, some of y'all are taking this way too fricking far. Y'all act as if LSU and coach O have been known for "processing" recruits on the reg and that's the furthest from the truth. Look, coach O, his staff, and this program are experiencing a ton of interest all of a sudden from some ofnthe most talented players in the nation. There's absolutely no way coach O or anyone else could have predicted this surge happening, but guess what, it is happening right now and we have to do what's necessary for the betterment of our football program. Wtf do some of you idiots think he should do? Tell a player that he thinks will provide us with the best chance to win ball games that we can't accept his commitment due to having a player already committed with less talent? That's just retarded. Any coach in the nation is doing, has done, or would do the exact same thing coach O is if they were faced with this unique situation. Saban has been doing it for years, that's a fact, and there's plenty of other coaches that have processed players in order to sign a better one in their eyes. This bashing Os decision to go after the best and most talented players to play for HIS TEAM is ridiculous. How do y'all even know what was said or even offered to Jalen Lee? Orgeron could have offered him the opportunity to greyshirt and Lee told him no thanks. Bottom line is I fully trust coach Os decisions, especially when it's concerning the comparing of two players talents and which one he would prefer. Sorry guys, but I think I will side with coach O over you idiots and your opinions of who he should sign every damn time. Y'all are making this out to be way more serious and complicated than it is.

Also, we are fricking LSU. We will always sign the top talent in our state and that's not changing bc of Jalen Lee. Sure, bama has got some talented guys from here under saban, but LSU will always sign the vast majority of top level talent in Louisiana, and the ones that choose to go elsewhere, frick them, we will go get top talent from elsewhere in the country. Us winning this year vs bama is going to lock this state down even more too. Orgeron has great relationships with the coaches in state and the players we well. But some of you have this catastrophe syndrome going on and it's really stupid. Geaux Tigers.

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the egg

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You're an idiot

Hate to see this, especially for a local kid.

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They don’t have time to find another spot in a lot of cases

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sorry but I disagree..... good players always can get a spot. hell, players jump from us the week of signing. Where did those spots come from. There is still a lot of movement going on.

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This is the same crowd saying Louisiana kids need to commit early and that Louisiana kids can play at LSU and then get taken care of career wise when they are done playing ball and if they go out of state then don’t come back

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and to play devils advocate those kids don't care about that noise.... its a business decision and they just want to get in the league. Not saying it's ideal but its the bullshite game that's being played

Exactly right. I actually love how broad our net is this recruiting cycle. We are getting players from all over the country, and these are the best players in their respective states and in the country as a whole. It can only help us in recruiting and building our program to the level orgeron wants it to be, there is no down side to it lol. We still are going to lock Louisiana down that's a given and idk why people don't understand that either. However, if there's a decision that has to be made between a player that's from here and a player that's unequivocally better, yet he isn't from louisiana, we should go after the most talented player...especially when we are having to make every scholarship count for as much value as possible. We only have 25 you know? Well, we should be going after the best 25 that we can sign right? I thought it was common sense, but I guess some of our fans just aren't blessed with it. I'm sorry, but I just don't get what the big gripe is about what orgeron is doing. Lol, it's kinda like he wants to whip some major arse and win some national titles of something here huh? Haha, geaux tigers.

You should not offer a prospect recruit a recruit if you aren't willing to stick with him.

Man, what don't you understand about how much our program has changed in the last couple of months in the eyes of everyone, including recruits? The staff didn't intentionally do this to frick over Jalen Lee. They're doing it to get the best players they can get and strike while the irons hot and the momentum is there. Orgeron is doing what successful coaches do...surrounding themselves with the best players they can possibly get to coach, develop and execute their scheme to win ball games. We are getting interest from players that not even the coaching staff had any idea about...Arik Gilbert for example. The coaches didn't even know he was going to commit to LSU and he just committed one day out of the blue. So, if Arik Gilbert wanted to sign like he did and we had a tight end from Louisiana committed already, but clearly isn't the caliber of player Gilbert is, you would recommend coach O to tell Arik Gilbert too damn bad we dont have a scholly for you? No, that's just dumb. These are the kinds of decisions our staff is having to deal with right now. This isn't normal. We happen to have moved up the board for some of the best players in the nation and we have to sign them dude. You can't pass up players with the talent some of these guys have, you just can't. This is a unique recruiting class for LSU and how can you possibly prepare for the sudden influx of elite prospects wanting to be a part of what they have seen LSU do this season? We came out of nowhere and now the recruits are coming out of nowhere and fast, lol. shite, I'm very excited about how this class is going to finish personally and I know the coaches are as well. Geaux Tigers.

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You should not offer a prospect recruit a recruit if you aren't willing to stick with him.

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Recruiting is too fluid to make a blanket statement like this. So much can change from the time a player is offered to signing day.

The goal isn't to win the National Championship of Loyalty. The goal is to win the National Championship. Coach O is giving these players plenty of time to look around. It's not like they're leading kids on and then acting like the fax machine isn't working on signing day.

This is simple. Get the best players you possibly can. Coach O would get skewered if it came out that he could've gotten a player like Chase Young but he stuck with a lesser player because that lesser player said yes first.