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O line is probably the hardest position to scout coming out of high school because you just don’t always know how these big kids who are used to being the biggest kid on their team will react against big boy competition and coaching.

You don’t need 5 stars. You just have to trust in your scouting and development. Iowa and Wisconsin have been o line driven programs for years without big star recruits on the strength of their system for identifying players they can mold. The nfl is littered with their linemen. You just have to find a good o line coach you trust.

I like all of this.

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If I were lsu I’d hire Kentucky’s o line coach. They’ve had some good lines and they know what they’re doing up there.

I don’t like this.

LSU has a guy who can do the job now so lets allow him to do that. You are correct that you don’t need 5* littered classes to create a dominant Oline. DL is different because they don’t have the luxury of waiting and developing slowly. They’re usually needed immediately and as many as possible to rotate. The OL is more about having the right 5 guys working together cohesively but also having at least 2-3 backups who can plug and play at any given position.

I think we’ll be ok but the sense of urgency is there to pick up 5* talent right now because of our lack of developed depth and a clear game plan for recruiting the OL. There is absolutely nothing wrong with landing 4* talent at OL. Geez. There is also almost absolutely nothing different about having 4 and 5 year developed OLman and Bama having 2 and 3 year 5* talent. Which path do you take? Of course you get the best players available but IF you don’t have that luxury then we have no choice but to take the best available talent then develop that into a dominant Oline. At the moment LSU seems to need to mix both 3* developed talent who stay for 4-5 years with 4* and 5* talent who leave in 3 years.

If we can keep replacing these guys with better players, then what’s the problem? Do that and we’ll be perfectly fine. All this Bama comparison BS is dumb. We can complete with Bama, period, so stop with the inferiority complex.

This is a little off subject but how many of you guys have looked at LSU’s top 200 or so most talented recruits as for as recruiting sites ranking of them prior to playing? If you haven’t, go look at the percentage of guys in that top 200 who have either played for or was recruited by Ed O. It’s a pretty massive number considering the time he’s been here. From 2016 to current I want to say it was like 38% or close to 40% of the names on that list who have played for or was recruited by Ed O. That includes Saban’s classes and Miles classes who we all have said could both recruit like no bodies business. Well he’s out recruiting both of them according to that list and in another 2-3 years he may be closer to 50% or 60% of those names being connected to him. That’s pretty impressive imo. Ed O is definitely recruiting a much more quality player overall than Miles was and it’s not close.

Also the majority of the names have produced for LSU. Some haven’t but there were a lot more who didn’t under previous staffs. Some transferred because of scheme change or coaching changes and some just shouldn’t have ever been on that list. There were also many who should have been on that list and wasn't but that was mostly from Miles as well. Maybe LSU could benefit from Miles being back on the staff in a recruiting role or development role when it comes to the 4* and 3* players. Keep him far away from our top end talent and we could benefit lol. QB’s especially!!! Lol