Our Natural Recruiting "Footprint"?

I think it’s the southeast and Houston up to Dallas

Circled area with a new place up north.

Geaux tigers.







ETA.
It’s a unique situation.

The only power team in the state unlike Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia (somewhat debatable) Texas and Florida.

Arkansas has Arky only but not enough players in that state to sustain.



LSU got 90% of top players in La. ………….90%!!!!!


Then BK is known for Oline and TE. He will snag some guys from the Midwest.

Not sure about California and also not sure we want to go that far anymore.

Like someone posted LSU is a national brand... they reach mostly through the south for talent.. La,TX,Miss,Bama and FL has been good to LSU historically..recently Tennessee and Michigan has sent players

National now. About to dip back into the DMV soon.

We will always be focused on Louisiana kids first. Before you say “ well duh” -understand that our most productive players have always been homegrown talent and we’ve often had staffs that squandered resources chasing kids who turned out to be less productive than kids in state. East Texas would be next and that goes back to at least the 1970s. Mississippi kids rarely work out and the resources spent there rarely are worth it. Florida has been good to us. Georgia has been good to us. The Mobile area. That’s pretty much it with cherry picking guys through connections randomly from wherever. A kid from Tennessee and the Carolinas here and there.

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Has not worked out for us (except JD, who we didn't recruit out of HS)

ELI RICKS ring a bell?!

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We offered JD in HS but did not have a recruiter assigned to him. We got Peter Parish that year and this board was all over how good he would be but that turned out to be wrong. We had Brennan on the roster already and expected him to take over when Burrow left.

Laughed when I realized it as well

Louisiana plus the I-10 corridor from Houston to Mobile.