re: Ruffin Rodrigue on instate recruiting

"I and idiot......"

- Ruffin Rodrigue

Ruffin's comments play to the fan base and are aimed at the mob mentality.

What an insanely closed minded and myopic view of things. People move around now, it happens. If you're talented at something people will still want you. The idea of a state blackballing some young guy because he went somewhere else for college is retarded.

Well what do you know, you're really not that dumb... just slow.

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break into coaching collegiality

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Dude be throwing multi-syllabic creativicable reinvigorationalistic freshness up in here... you are vocabularially gifted!

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but it's just an absolutely idiotic reason to not hire someone.

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if we're talking sales/PR, which a lot of these jobs are, it's extremely smart TO hire these guys

Only as it pertains to locally owned businesses by those actively supporting lsu football.

understand that the big business world does not revolve around lsu football and many of those businesses operate in LA.

While I like Ruffin and see him show great entrepreneurial spirit, the majority of businesses don't think like his Mockler spring board.

He's more wrong than right.....

oh, and some places offer a better place to live than "home". Much of LA sucks for life.

So if some peoples logic is correct, you would hire Jordan Jefferson before Peyton Manning. That is smart. Thanks for clearing that up.

Are you following the conversation? Peyton was successful in the NFL. So I'm pretty sure he's not looking for a sales job in LA...

T-Bob fricking Hebert does morning radio in new orleans. Do you think he would have that gig had he played for Ole Miss regardless of who his dad is!?!?!

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So if some peoples logic is correct, you would hire Jordan Jefferson before Peyton Manning. That is smart. Thanks for clearing that up. very flawed reasoning

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No I would not hire Payton on principle. Don't know if Jefferson is qualified.

I am not particularly a LSU fan (don’t be confused by my handle. A friend who is a LSU fan introduced me to Tigerdroppings thus the name). I have not posted much (for some that seems to be a criterion for posting and I don’t care what you think or say.

I used to enjoy reading the board for real information, but now it is nothing but bickering and wisecrack comments. It has become totally useless.

Most of you guys are idiots. I think half of you are not really LSU fans. I think a huge number of you don’t know the real world or anything about college sports. Most of you just want to criticize what someone says or ridicule a poster and not offer any information or add anything to the conversation.

You criticize our coaches (DB coach, line coach), our players (most recently a true freshman quarter back in his first start comparing him to red shirt freshmen who have started games and practiced with the first team), make comments about recruits parents (most memorable someone’s mother) and expect recruits to come to LSU. Saban was right LSU people never have any thing positive only negative.

But on the jobs for players leaving the state, Ruffin was right. I do business all over the country. It is not just athletes. A&M oil executives hire A&M grads, Walmart execs hire Arkansas grads to work in management (no comment about clerks or people working at stores), a Harvard grad will hire a Harvard grad. This is true even if they did not play sports.

Do you really believe Landon Collins girlfriend’s mother would still be working for a school board in Alabama, Sean Tuohy’s wife going to let him hire an ex Tennessee player to work at one of his Taco Bells or an Auburn Alum is going to hire a Bama player.

Maybe that’s what’s wrong with LSU recruiting and LSU in general, there is no loyalty. Kids need to know you turn your back on LSU don’t look for help later. People need to think and let it be known, if they have to choose between a LSU grad and someone else, I am picking the LSU grad. I know LSU grads have a great education, character and will work.

Anyone who says anything else or cites any statistics is not a LSU fan and not true Louisianan.

Really who would a plant manager or customer in Louisiana or LSU grad rather go to lunch or play golf with, Jarvis Landry or Julio Jones. I know there are exceptions for Super Bowl rings and pros from you city, but they better not be around the week of and after LSU Bama.