Thoughts on the late recruiting push???

You will see them take the schollies in state a lot slower next year to recruit more nationally...

There are quite a few greyshirts possibilities in this class IMO

What everyone is not remembering is that we are at 22 officially. Maybe Hill and Phillips don't come. Maybe Phillips hasn't committed for a reason and is just telling everyone he's going to.

But it's really not that tricky. We have 22 players committed and are in serious contention for 7: Edwards, Howard, Collins, Hill, Phillips, Alexander, Diggs.

Let's say we go crazy and get 5. That would put us at 27. Borque is for sure a guy you tell to leave. Say we didn't like him visiting other schools. Then you only need one player to grey shirt, either the long snapper or sandolph.

Seems like we always over-do it with the 3 star guys based on some early season insecurities. We should just realize we are a national power now and the 5 stars need to have room at the Inn.

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Its really frustrating that we are all of the sudden getting a huge increase in interest from top national recruits when we have 22 commits and are short on space and very close to signing day.

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This happens every year lot's of times it is just guys wanting more attention when they pick their hat (Pryor, DT from Michigan name escapes me, etc). I hope we can land maybe even just 1 of Howard, Alexander, or Edwards but to think we get all of them or have a legit chance is just Crimson Tidish of you.

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Seems like we always over-do it with the 3 star guys based on some early season insecurities.

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I somewhat agree with this......somewhat not. Miles and Co are no doubt excellent at recognizing elite talent that has not been evaluated as such. At the same time, I would hate to pass up a star national recruit which not only gives us a great player, but also gives LSU more nationwide recruiting prestige, simply to keep a lower quality "project".

We always seem to get some interest late in the game. I think its worse this year due to the Natl Champ 13-0 run. After 2008 and 2009, recruits may have been a bit wary, but our success last year, this year, and surely the next few, should blow up the LSU recruiting for years to come. Having QB's like Mett, Randle, and Kiel will also get us back to the days with WR's like Doucet, Bowe, Lafell, Henderson, Clayton, Green, etc

agree. I'm gonna be really pissed if we all the sudden get a bunch of 5 star commits. I mean where were these guys all year, picking their nose?

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agree. I'm gonna be really pissed if we all the sudden get a bunch of 5 star commits. I mean where were these guys all year, picking their nose?

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Sarcasm is humorous, but ignorance is annoying. No one said they would be pissed......but with 22 commits, we are a bit tight on space to suddenly have 8 or 9 highly rated recruits decide that they want to be Tigers.

I think Ferguson(the long snapper) is a mid term enrollee so it's doubtful he gets left out but who knows if he is actually a schollie kid anyway. At this point it's just assumed that he is going on scholarship but it's not concrete.

Granier just had an article out yesterday talking about his visit on the 20th and saying he's 100% healthy.(says he's running track to get in shape) Doesn't sound like a kid that's not coming in.Pure speculation with the greyshirt talk. Of course the staff could still ask him to and he's a lifelong Tiger so he'd probably accept it but if he's greyshirting he doesn't seem to know it yet.

We'll make the room as we always do. Grade casulties,Bourque leaving and maybe a greyshirt. Truth is we aren't getting all these kids and I'd be suprised if we landed more than 2 of the kids not named Phillips,Hill or Collins. It's very likely we could only land 1 of the other kids(Edwards,Diggs,Howard,Poole,Alexander and whoever else gets mentioned in the next month)

We have to remember that January is the biggest month for bs rumors and speculation. Most of this stuff now and in the next month will amount to nothing. We'll know more when visits start and coaches start visiting kids today thru Saturday and Jan 13-28.

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i know right? It's like the other day when I was walking around with my pockets full of gold coins. Sounds great right? Well APPARENTLY gold weighs a helluva lot more than regular coins and it ended up tearing the stitching in my pockets. I didn't lose any of my gold coins but still i have to take my pants to the cleaners to get the pockets fixed. Frustrating.

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Alexander-With Phillips coming can you take another lb even though word is Granier is leaving

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This is the big question in my mind - assuming Granier is leaving, effectively Phillips is taking his spot - hearing rumors that LSU is the slight leader for Edwards, we definitely take Edwards, Howard or both, if they commit.

I agree that Hill is coming, but I think that means Bourque (unfortunately) goes elsewhere. So, that's a wash, as well.

So LC (+1), Edwards (+1), Howard (+1), if Granier, for example, grayshirts, and rolls into next year (assuming he comes back from knee surgery) or for whatever reason doesn't get into this class, Phillips will be a (0), if Bourque decommits because of Hill, Hill will be a (0) and that does leave 1 under 25 for Kwon Alexander (or maybe another running back or dual threat - Liggins or Alford).

I guess your point is valid - should we retain Granier AND Bourque, do we take both Phillips AND Kwon Alexander. I think Phillips is an outstanding player - this is a rare exception tin that I would take the OOS kid, Kwon Alexander.

ETA: And to be fair, I have no idea how 25 fully qualified impacts the 85 - I know we have just a few juniors, so we either hit the 85 hard this year or next - pick your poison.