re: Michael Mauti - LB from a couple classes ago

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I said he is one of the best LBs to come out of the state in years. He was the #1 LB in the state that year

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For recruiting purposes, they only rank graduating seniors, so for 2008, Mauti was the #1 SENIOR LB in the state, that does not necessarily mean he as the #1 LB in the state.

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Foyil>Mauti

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You have NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!!! I have seen both play. Michael was a better prospect.

You know that Ace's only offers were from Tulane and like Arkansas State or some team like that. He transferred from Tulane and Miles was gracious enough to put him on scholarship.

You just argue to argue.

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yeah but he was better in HS

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What???????? Did you ever watch him play or Mauti play? Dude, c'mon with this crap

Seriously, give me you're reasoning.

HAHAHAHA! If you can't give any reasons other than "cuz he was", then I'm done.

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Standing next to him while he said it the exact quote was "your the baddest mother fricker iv ever coached against"

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BTW STM Head Coach Jim Hightower is a devout catholic and is well known for NEVER using profanity. So you probably heard an asst coach, not that it really matters

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He hit Mahtook so hard on a rollout that he broke Mikey's jaw

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never happened, he hit mikey helmet to helmet and gave him a mild concussion (should have been a penalty)

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Alot off ppl dont beleive this ever happend but it is true.. LINKWatch at the 2 min mark, then watch mahtook on the ground with the whole medical staff.and at 3:12 mark, shits real

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Every time we have this same idiotic Mauti thread and you Mandeville Skippertards break out this video you don't ever acknowledge that Mahtook a) had released the ball b) was actually out of bounds c) was hit helmet to helmet by Mauti on that play where Mikey was knocked out of the game.

1 roughing the passer, 2 personal fouls (late hit/helmet to helmet), zero flags on the play

And what kills me is you guys that are buddies of his say LSU didn't recruit him hard enough but you have your timeline all fricked up. LSU did lightly recruit him during his Junior year, but he had already shut his recruiting down and committed to Penn State in June between his Junior and Senior seasons. Mauti's Junior film was good, but the Mandeville's team defense film was AWFUL. His senior year film was much better and the team around him was much better. The knock against him as a Junior was he took poor angles, ran around undisciplined and made tackles (when he got there).

His senior year the staff had turned the program around, he played much smarter and more disciplined and his film looked a lot more like an elite level prospect. But he had already committed to PSU and his recruiting was done.

ETA: and ftr I have seen numerous kids in the Acadiana area that were much better HS LBers than Mauti but had no grades and no Father with a PSU/Saints pedigree to get attention. Good luck to Mauti in Happy Valley but losing him was no great loss IMO.

Letting Rufus Alexander and Nick Harris go to OU was far worse

these guys from Mandeville have no basis for comparing Mauti to the rest of the state. Northshore football has gotten better since all of the white flight from Katrina but it is still not that good. So saying Mauti is the best in the state when they were a mediocre program playing in a mediocre district against other mediocre schools makes it hard to tell. In the Acadiana area alone, every year schools like Westgate, Breaux Bridge, Northside, Acadiana have guys that are HS LBers equal in ability to Mauti but they don't get any hype because their grades are bad or they aren't quite tall enough or fast enough or whatever. So instead of being the Great White Hype LB with a ticket to PSU like Mauti, they end up at ULL/ULM/NSU/MSU or back on the street doing nothing.

If Mauti had gone to Acadiana and Cutrera went to Mandeville (with a PSU alumni dad) I can honestly say I could see Cutrera at PSU but I can't see Mauti at LSU. Comparing them head to head, IMHO Mauti was definitely not a better college LB prospect than Grant Fleming and he went to ULL.

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Not too good for LSU but like I said before, he was not a lock kid that could be slow played like we see each year so they should have been evaluating/recruiting him harder if they wanted any chance at him. And don't kid yourself by thinking LSU didn't know that. I know its hard to believe but there are kids whowould be extremely less interested in the home state school if you were being slow played and not being evaluated/recruited by them but other top programs are recruiting the hell out of you.

If it's too late to worry about it, then stop talking out of your arse about a kid you don't know, never met, never seen play, never talked to. It blows my mind when some of you guys speak for kids like you know them or argue with people who know him and actually talk about this stuff with them.

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Were you a teammate or a band member? Doubt you were that tight with him.

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Mandeville over STM advancing to the quarters...SPS over Higgins advancing to the quarters..Yep pretty mediocre district.

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one season? that is your rebuttal? the playoff results from one season? Yes that is a mediocre district, always has been and probably always will be unless some serious changes take place

FYI that was STM's first season in 5A, not to mention the school has 1050 students with 600 of them girls.

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If Mauti had gone to Acadiana and Cutrera went to Mandeville (with a PSU alumni dad) I can honestly say I could see Cutrera at PSU but I can't see Mauti at LSU. Comparing them head to head, IMHO Mauti was definitely not a better college LB prospect than Grant Fleming and he went to ULL.

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Go back and read what i said about what the STM coaches and players thought and said about Mauti. Matter of fact my Fraternity brother who was one of STMs WR said the Jacob C couldnt hold a candle to Mauti.

So how did Oklahoma & Florida recruit him? Probably from the same film??? I don't know. Why would coaches from those teams spend time writing, calling, texting him if he wasn't evaluated and seen as a great prospect. I know he talked to Venables alot. Just sayin'

Oh, Lester, in case you didn't figure it out, Ace wasn't offered by LSU either.

Also, I watched Mauti hit's hit on Mahtook and it didn't look out of bounds or late enough to throw a flag (and there was a ref right on top of the play btw). K done with he stupid Mauti thread. Like it was said before, this thread comes up every year, arguements insue, and never goes anywhere.