re: Mike Farrell sure still thinks that Seastrunk is an...

I'm no expert in recruiting, but Seastrunk reminds me a lot of Andre Debose last year.

Didn't Debose and the Seminole Trio come to BR a couple of times out of their pockets? And wasn't Debose the one encouraging the others to come with him on his visits to LSU? This is comparable to the Seastunk asking Lattimore to visit Auburn with him.

Debose and his Les Miles term paper and all the good words about him comparable to what Seastrunk has been saying about the coaching staff over at Auburn.

Finally, I don't remember completely, but I think I remember a video coming out at one of the camps or ASG somewhere with Shepard and Debose together and one of them saying something along the lines of "He's coming to BR baby" or "You'll like where he's going to commit" and Debose giving that smile of his. This is comparable to the Seastrunk quote of "You guys will like where I commit in the Army game". In fact, a HUGE rumor on our boards was that Debose was an LSU silent commit for a good while.

And still, with all of the signs pointing to LSU, Debose chose Florida, and he was quoted as saying a big reason was the distance factor. (FYI, I really like Debose still and think he's a good guy, and I don't think he tried to deceive us in any way. That's just the ups and downs of recruiting that is almost impossible for a big time recruit to prevent getting caught up in)

I think the same will prove true for Seastrunk and he'll be an LSU Tiger on NSD.

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I'm just saying that argument that he's been to LSU more than Auburn is extraordinarily weak.

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Maybe so. But it could also argued that he doesn't need to see LSU as much right now as he does AU, bc he has been here more.

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You originally made that assessment in contrast to Auburn, so obviously you were trying to sell it as an advantage. And to be honest, given all of the positive talk surrounding Auburn which hasn't been recruiting him as long as LSU, I think that it is a fair assessment to say that the length of recruitment will have a very minuscule impact at best.

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It is a positive for LSU that he knows Les Miles, Larry Porter, etc for a long time. I'm not saying it's the deciding factor, or anything remotely close to that.

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At any rate, his connections to Louisiana and to Reed are positives for LSU, but they have been there since the beginning and they haven't come to light yet in his recruitment, so I'm wondering how much of an impact it will really have.

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They haven't come to light? Despite the fact that he hasn't mentioned it since you've started following his recruitment, he has in fact mentioned it before.

you dont seem worried about it all still talking about it at midnight on an lsu board

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I was saying that if they meant so much to them, he would have had LSU as his leader all this time. Those connections will keep LSU in the running to get his signature; but I was just questioning how much impact it will truly have when it is all said and done. That one aspect is something I really cannot speculate on. I can just say that so far, those connections have not stopped him from naming teams like USC, Texas, and Auburn as his leaders at different intervals.

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I never said that by itself would make him an LSU Tiger. I just said that it was one of the things in LSU's favor, when you asked me to list them. You acted like everything is in Auburn's favor and I was trying to explain to you that isn't the case (while acknowledging that he does like AU a lot, and you may be his favorite at this point so far away from signing day).

Well, Lache was the one who told me to bet CPA that he would not commit during the Big Cat weekend. Maybe rolling "toothless corner" was what convinced him to commit to AU. I think the AU guys are trying to discourage other colleges by having press release after press release claiming Lache is a silent commit. The funny thing is these coaches need Lache to recruit for them because they can't even get a foot in the door for the top recruits based on their coaching abilities.

Do you think that Lache has really warmed up to Auburn over the past month or so, or are the recruiting sites blowing everything out of proportion.

You definitely have more inside info than just about anyone involved.

He likes AU a lot, but in the end it will come down to what offense he thinks fits him the best and who has a chance to get that MNC ring. So what if AU is the leader now, but can they hold him when all the top recruits commit to somebody else. In the end most top recruits want a chance at that ring and the NFL. AU HC + OC + RBC can't beat Porter's record the last two years with two rb's in the NFL and with maybe three getting drafted in the next NFL draft I think the score after next years draft will be like Porter 4-5 rb's in the NFL to 0 -1 for those AU guys. So you decide who you would be better off playing for,
not to mention all the OLinemen Coach Miles puts in the NFL. I am not a genius, but I would rather play for LSU, UT, USC, Navy, WV, BYU or the Utes before I would play for a guy who came in last place in the Big 12 North.

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So the only thing he's basing this on is that he's friends with Reed, Reed's a LSU lean, therefore Seastrunk is coming?

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Farrell has had Lache going to LSU for months.. even said we didn't take Christian Michael because we didn't want to scare Lache off, and we didn't full-court press Bryce Brown for the same reason

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I have no idea where he's going to end up, but since Lache visited Auburn in early April, I havent seen anything to suggest he's considering another school.

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I just don't see it

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I've seen dozens of quotes from Seastrunk since he's visited Auburn and not one has included the letters LSU

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I'd bet Baton Rouge

just wait until Lache gets back into school.. wait until the pressure is turned on by his friends and family. Just like Reuben Randle.. this kid is LSU bound.
wanna get noticed by NFL scouts? play at LSU.
I have never seen more players physically ready for the NFL on one college team than on LSU's NC team a couple years back.