re: Sec country lsu is reporting

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who the frick is GM.

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GM = general manager.

It is a title made up by Eaux to get Austin Thomas a raise. Nothing more, nothing less.

LSU fans are proving their idiocy being concerned over a position they didn't even know existed until the former guy left.

He was basically a recruiting assistant to Coach Eaux.

A lot of fans knew exactly who AT was and what he meant to LSU recruiting. Coach O may have giving him a new position name, but AT deserved it. AT landed Stevens and Phillips for us, along with several others.

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It's a paper shuffling job that most schools don't even have. GM is a glorified title

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I think "most" is a huge understatement in this case. At the time of his bogus promotion Austin Thomas was 1 of 2 general managers in college football and the only one in the SEC.

Now that AT is unemployed I believe there is now only one GM in college football. It is an unnecessary position and that is why only 1 college has a GM.

Who cares, it is a made-up position anyway.

They created that title for AT.

Just another name for a non-on-the-field coaching spot that helps in recruiting.

Whether we call them Assistant to Head Coach in charge of player personnel, General Manager, or Deputy Director of Winning, it is all the same.

Made up jobs to get as much recruiting and other non-on-the-field coaching folks working as possible.

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It is a title made up by Eaux to get Austin Thomas a raise. Nothing more, nothing less.

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in other words, you dont know what Austin did or why he was called a GM so you think it wasnt real.

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He was basically a recruiting assistant to Coach Eaux.

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even if you were right, and youre not, that alone should make filling the position a top priority going into 2019, but of course orgeron is too inept to concede that. he apparently thinks he can recruit the entire country by himself, which must be why we're killing it with all of our top ranked out-of-state guys this year.

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He was not responsible for Leonard Fournette coming to LSU, unlike some articles has stated.

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you mean the guy Miles offered when he was a freshman in HS?

yeah, absolutly no one thinks Austin (who was in his first season at LSU when Fournette signed in '14) was responsible for that.

Thomas has left LSU twice in 2 years, and add on that he (supposedly) was recruiting Traore to TN like the day after he resigned from LSU....not sure he needs to come back. Like the guy, and he did a lot of good for LSU, but now he’s unemployed by his own doing. Wish him well.

Ogre is a cancer. He will destroy the program from within.

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If Eaux was too inept to concede that, he probably wouldn't be in the process of hiring Kevin Faulk as the Director of Player personnel.

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you must have some wired-in personal sources because the only thing Ive seen about Faulk is that he'd be a member of the support staff. whatever that means.

i love Faulk, i think he's as responsible as anyone for bringing LSU back from the dead, as important as Emmert and Saban (it was talent like that that lured saban here), but even if he is the new DPP, theres nothing in his history to suggest he'd be good at it.

that job requires endless organizational, marketing, and recruiting skills. if he's supposed to be replacing Austin, throw talent evaluation and scouting into the mix as well. you dont just hire a famous alum for that job (at least you dont if youre competent).

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Nine of the 20 signees are from out of state

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and the top ranked one so far is just inside the top 200 at 191. Im glad to have him, I think he'll be very good, but thats not exactly a coup.

our top 3 commits last year (numbers 18, 37, and 48 overall) were all out of state.

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Including the #1 JUCO OT in the nation

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again, another guy Im happy to have, but "#1" doesnt mean much year to year.

the JUCO pool is tiny, his rating is .9020, meaning that if he was a HS prospect he'd be around number 300.

the OG would be a 3-star somewhere in the 900's.

people are acting as if these guys are plug and play and theyre anything but.

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It is possible it will also include the #1 CB in the nation from Florida before the class is finished.

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well frick, I hope so, LSU has been working him for years. its not as if 0 is pulling him out of nowhere the way Miles did with P7.

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Eaux was too inept to concede that, he probably wouldn't be in the process of hiring Kevin Faulk as the Director of Player personnel.

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What qualifications does Faulk have that make you think he would be good in a Player Personnel position? I’ve wanted KF to have some sort of position at LSU for a while now, but I don’t know if this is the right one for him. Just because he has SB rings doesn’t mean he can recruit(on campus, obviously) and do the other administrative duties associated with the position.