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Were there any good recruits we missed out on when...

Posted on 9/3/09 at 3:01 pm
Posted by hg
Member since Jun 2009
126237 posts
Posted on 9/3/09 at 3:01 pm
Saban left for Miami and Les was coming in? I know some recruits changed there commitment during this, and was there any other big time recruits we could have landed if it wasn't for a coaching change/vacancy?
Posted by rstamp1
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2009
1288 posts
Posted on 9/3/09 at 3:07 pm to
I remember a couple of top o line recruits. One was mcneil who went to tenn and I can't remember the others
Posted by outsideroach
Yaw Fricked Baw
Member since Nov 2005
8015 posts
Posted on 9/3/09 at 3:31 pm to
chris keys DB from LA, went to bama got kicked off the team a year or so later.

dajleon furr TE went to Miami, never heard anything of him since.
Posted by jdawg
Cecilia, LA
Member since Mar 2006
560 posts
Posted on 9/3/09 at 3:34 pm to
Keys had committed to LSU early, then got kicked out of school for drugs. He ended up playing his senior season out of state and switched to Bama. LSU didn't miss out, Keys had character issues.
Posted by Suntiger
STG or BR or somewhere else
Member since Feb 2007
34614 posts
Posted on 9/3/09 at 3:55 pm to
quote:

chris keys DB from LA, went to bama got kicked off the team a year or so later.


I think Saban pulled his schooly when he got expelled for selling drugs. Then he went to a HS in Bama and ended up with Saban anyway.

It didn't help us with Patrick Turner, Fred Rouse, Reginald Youngblood or DeSean Jackson as they all visited during the leaving process.
Posted by LSUstudent4life
Houston
Member since May 2008
1945 posts
Posted on 9/3/09 at 4:52 pm to
Colt McCoy
Posted by GaytorHater703
Member since Nov 2004
2673 posts
Posted on 9/3/09 at 4:59 pm to
TE wasnt Furr i think it was Farr.....also we had a shot a M. Oher...i really wish we woulda pulled him
Posted by ProjectP2294
South St. Louis city
Member since May 2007
73875 posts
Posted on 9/3/09 at 4:59 pm to
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Then he went to a HS in Bama and ended up with Saban anyway.


he had been kicked off of Bama's team before Saban got there I think.
Posted by Maximus
Member since Feb 2004
81329 posts
Posted on 9/3/09 at 5:14 pm to
Farr and big bad Josh McNeil
Posted by tigermike200444
baton rouge
Member since Dec 2003
9106 posts
Posted on 9/3/09 at 5:33 pm to
that class sucked
Posted by CalLSU
Shreveport, la
Member since Feb 2009
825 posts
Posted on 9/3/09 at 5:39 pm to
Were you being serious about saying that class sucked? Because we had some really REALLY good recruits that year
Posted by Charles Bronson
WINNING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Member since Nov 2007
11677 posts
Posted on 9/3/09 at 5:42 pm to
Keys was an absolute beast. It's a shame he was a moron.
Posted by OBUDan
Chicago
Member since Aug 2006
40723 posts
Posted on 9/3/09 at 6:11 pm to
dajleon farr bailed and so did another guy who went to bama.

both ended up kicked off their teams.
Posted by Peachtree Tiger
Member since Jan 2004
3232 posts
Posted on 9/3/09 at 6:58 pm to
Not sure, but the lack of HS recruited Jr's and Soph's on the DL really bugs me.
Posted by LSUSportsR4me
Aggieland
Member since Jan 2006
5505 posts
Posted on 9/3/09 at 7:53 pm to
quote:

DeSean Jackson


Good for him. He would have been misused at LSU for sure. Wouldn't have been drafted nearly as high.
Posted by Teacher
Member since Sep 2006
3060 posts
Posted on 9/4/09 at 9:55 am to
We took RP over Colt McCoy.
Posted by ImOldGregg
Member since Apr 2008
1692 posts
Posted on 9/4/09 at 10:14 am to
Y'all talking about Chris Keys that played at Port Barre?
Posted by tigerfan4120
Member since Dec 2003
3264 posts
Posted on 9/4/09 at 10:28 am to
Yeah keyes was from port barre, his film was jaw dropping good.

We also missed out on a big OL from Georgia who was very highly ranked and went to UT with Josh mcneil. Chris Scott I think was his name.
Posted by ImOldGregg
Member since Apr 2008
1692 posts
Posted on 9/4/09 at 10:31 am to
I was a senior when keys was a freshman. They had him and marvin white in the same defensive backfield. They lit up my litlle white arse everytime I ran the ball.
Posted by tigerfan4120
Member since Dec 2003
3264 posts
Posted on 9/4/09 at 10:39 am to
He got caught selling weed at school, an somehow ended up moving to Alabama and living with a bama recruit, then signing with bama. Was a pretty strange set of events.

Btw I just checked and that other OL we missed was Chris Scott who will be a third year starter for UT playing left tackle this year. Losing mcneal and Scott was a big blow, and those two constitute 2/5ths of UTs starting OL for like the last three years.
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