re: OL Recruiting - here is why you do not need to worry

Really hoping Ray Parker becomes a star LT.

He's got the perfect skill set to develop into one.

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Johnson is doing an OV at OSU

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um did you expect him not to take a OV to OSU?

I am really the only one on this entire board who thinks we land Paris.

People seem to think LSU has a chance of flipping Paris Johnson. Wonder where all that’s coming from?

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um did you expect him not to take a OV to OSU?

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Why will next weekend be fun then? he isn't going to decommit from OSU and commit to LSU 3 weeks before his OV to OSU. Therefore, next weekend won't be too eventful in my mind

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one reason for Alabama dominance has been they know most of,our plays pre snap.

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I know this is very tinfoil-hat, but I am very suspicious about how they’ve been able to predict our plays and even the hard snap count. See last year’s game...on the final drive, one of bama’s DT’s jumped early on every hard snap in our final drive of the game. He was only flagged offsides once, but it is anomalous that the players would know the hard snap count on every single play of that drive.

I know bama has analyzed the hell out of us, but they’ve had more success predicting our plays than they’ve had against any other team. Ole Miss, A&M, and Auburn have beat bama during seasons where it’s reasonable to claim that their teams were less talented than LSU. My point is simply that it is statistically unlikely that one team would so handily anticipate every play of a single opponent—I’ve seen bama defenses perfectly sell out against the plays we’ve run, even though we’ve had four different OC’s during that period—Stud, Cameron, Ensminger, and Canada. I’m not saying that any of those coaches were better playcallers than bama coaches, but I think it is statistically unlikely to have the exact same degree of success against multiple OC’s with no drop off from one coach to the next.

Basically, I’m saying...is there a mole somewhere in or close to the program? In all likelihood, the answer is “no,” but if there were, I think Woodward is a clever enough guy to be able to root out any possible leaks.

Sorry for detailing the thread. I’ve just been suspicious about the information warfare since I’ve seen the CBS crew show a bama staff member stealing signs / play calls during a broadcast (lip-reading him, he was correctly calling “run” or “pass” from the booth to someone wearing a headset before every snap). I don’t recall the specific game so I can’t find the clip to which I’m referring, but Saban has admitted to sign-stealing in the past, although he claims that bama doesn’t do it. LINK. And for those that would argue that stealing signals is fair game...if that were true, then Saban wouldn’t deny that bama does it.

That’s what a projection is...

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I’ve just been suspicious about the information warfare since I’ve seen the CBS crew show a bama staff member stealing signs / play calls during a broadcast (lip-reading him, he was correctly calling “run” or “pass” from the booth to someone wearing a headset before every snap).

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You do know the root that Saban’s coaching tree sprung from right? From the man that brought about “Spygate.”

There is truth in this. And on top of the disaster of 1/9/12 when our QB and RT played like they were dumped on Earth from Mars I suspected Bama had some additional help beyond the mere fact we had a conservative offense. I mean it came out later that Greg Williams dropped in on LSU practices and then consulted Bama on the side. A mole could have been part of it too.

And not just that game, last year and 2013 and 2015 come to mind. The one year with Canada going up against Bama's D he probably called some things even O was not expecting. But anytime else it went beyond our offense just being conservative. Anticipating snap counts is a giveaway the opponent knows more than they are leading on.

I believe Ray Parker will be the best player in this class, he’s got all the tools to be a superstar.

It really just matters if you get guys that fit your scheme and develop them.