re: Trent Johnson - Local players he's let slip out of state

How many players are Kennedy and Stansbury going to let leave Mississippi?

Andre Stringer - Leading scorer at LSU

Johnny O'Bryant - 5 star recruit!

Point is, you never know how these guys are going to turn out. Louisiana has had a few down years recently in basketball

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Point is, you never know how these guys are going to turn out. Louisiana has had a few down years recently in basketball

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how about turner from the state of alabama. how did grant let him out?

these post are stupid. Johnson did pretty well recruiting last year. he GOT the states best player. The State of MISSISSIPPI BEST player. And one of the better players out of ALABAMA.

statsheet.com has a collection from various sources where they compile 'top 100' recruits for each year, by state, team, etc.
this uses their #s.

i count 34 'top 100' players, with lsu signing 9.

i also list in parentheses next to the year the out of state 'top 100' guys lsu signed

i realize top 100 isnt the BEST way to go, but if a guy is not on the list it probably at least means that other big schools missed them as well. Guys like antonio hudson, darrel mitchel, tyrus thomas of course had big impacts without making these lists--all LA people for LSU, so im sure non top 100 LA people had impacts at other schools as well)

this leaves out juco guys as well..

john brady (dont have his 1st yeaer, but he had to piece together JUCO scrubs because of the situation)

1998
jermaine williams - lsu
stromile swift - lsu
marqs ledoux - lsu
kyle hornsby - indiana
brandon dean - arkansas

1999 (ronald dupree - MS)
derrick zimmerman - miss st
hollis price - oklahoma
bernard king - texas atm
zach johnson - la tech
shawnson johnson - juco (later lsu)

2000
juemichael young - lsu
nick anderson - texas atm
chris duhon - duke
brandon mouton - texas
kendall dartez - louisville

2001
dwayne mitchell - auburn
marcus spears - lsu football

2002
none

2003 (tack minor - TX, regis koundjia - bahamas)
brandon bass - lsu
paul millsap - la tech
von wafer - fla st

2004
glen davis - lsu
shan foster - vandy

2005 (magnum rolle, bahamas)
tasmin mitchell - lsu
terry martin - texas tech (later came to lsu)
kenny cooper - ok st

2006
dj augustin - texas
tweety carter - baylor
perry stevenson - kentucky

2007 (anthony randolph - TX)
lacedarius dunn - baylor
leonard washington - USC

trent johnson (2008 is kind of brady/johnson, really)
2008 (delwan graham - GA)
storm warren - lsu
greg monroe - georgetown
terrane henry - ole miss

2009 (aaron dotson, WA)
none

2010 (ralston turner - AL)
matt derenbecker - lsu

It was obvious last year that Trent valued Turner over the 3 swing players (Brown, Galloway, Williams) from Louisiana. It's also obvious now why. Turner is much better than any of them. He also had 2011 wing John Isaac committed at the time.

The last three seasons are probably the worst 3-year run of basketball talent in Louisiana history. Derenbecker is probably the highest rated player from Louisiana in that span. I like him as a player, but when he's the best your state puts out in three years, that's sad.


Edit to add: This is a completely stupid thread.

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So Galloway is the only one worthwhile we've missed on, got it.

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basically...and with his uncle being an asst. coach at st. joe's, he was always headed up there i believe


i think markel brown had an offer and will be a nice player when his four years are up, but ralston turner has looked great so far in the same role.....

TJ valued Turner above the other guys. Plain and simple, and the other guys were passed over, including Galloway. People acting like Galloway just went to St. Joe's because of his uncle are out of their mind. The guy wouldn't be going there if he had the opportunity to go a number of other places, which he didn't.

And who can blame him? Turner has the most upside than any other player on our entire team. He's a better player than Galloway, and it's great that he's here.

Anyone questioning TJ's recruiting up to this point has not paid any attention to the actual team or the actual recruiting.

And let's not forget how Dotson is currently playing up to his potential. He was a TJ guy and has been very impressive this year.

Props to Trent, I just don't get the haters.

He can't have 20 players on the roster, and I'm good with the guys we have.

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It's also obvious now why. Turner is much better than any of them.

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is it really that obvious that he is "much" better 8 games or so into what should be a 4 year career at a school?

settle down guys, settle down

Galloway and Dotson werent even in the same class.