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re: What's your favorite memory of National Signing Day?
Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:47 am to geauxpurple
Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:47 am to geauxpurple
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The early Bayou Bashes at the Sheraton atrium. Those were a lot of fun.
They had them at another location prior to the atrium, and I’m blanking on it now. Going back to the Dinardo era.
This post was edited on 12/5/25 at 9:20 am
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Posted on 12/5/25 at 9:09 am to mattz1122
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Plus the rumors that Coach O helped steer McKnight to USC
rumors?
O spoke openly about it in the book "Meat Market"
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Orgeron dialed up old pal Pete Carroll and told him Joe McKnight would be their next Reggie Bush and was better than any back in the country. "I wanna help Pete," Orgeron later said, "but it doesn't hurt to get Joe away from LSU."
This post was edited on 12/5/25 at 9:20 am
Posted on 12/5/25 at 10:51 am to Chastains
I don't think it was on Signing Day, but when Peyton announced he was coming back to Tennessee for his Senior Year.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 12:02 pm to Chastains
Something that took place over a longer period than just signing day was the recruitment of Lache Seastrunk, who signed with Oregon, but ended up at Baylor. He seemed like a nice kid, but was taking advise from a "Mentor", or maybe a "handler", the infamous Willie Lyles, who almost got a few programs in trouble with the NCAA.
Lache got his grandmother to sign for him to go to Oregon, because his mom wouldn't sign for him. She wanted him somewhere else. After the NCAA found out schools were paying Lyles thousands of dollars and started investigating Oregon, Lache, who was from Temple, TX, left Eugene and came home.
Here's a pic of Lache (on the right) with Cassius Marsh (on the left), who ended up at UCLA, with Willie Lyles(next to Lache), at an LSU game.
Don't remember who the kid on crutches is.
ETA: Is it Terrance Toliver?
Lache got his grandmother to sign for him to go to Oregon, because his mom wouldn't sign for him. She wanted him somewhere else. After the NCAA found out schools were paying Lyles thousands of dollars and started investigating Oregon, Lache, who was from Temple, TX, left Eugene and came home.
Here's a pic of Lache (on the right) with Cassius Marsh (on the left), who ended up at UCLA, with Willie Lyles(next to Lache), at an LSU game.
Don't remember who the kid on crutches is.
ETA: Is it Terrance Toliver?
This post was edited on 12/5/25 at 12:15 pm
Posted on 12/5/25 at 12:03 pm to TheHarahanian
The first one i went to was Saban’s first year. That may have been when we signed Michael Clayton and that group. It was a gigantic party and pep rally that started in the morning and lasted until late afternoon. You paid to get in and the beer taps were open.
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At the end the band played the fight songs and Saban gave a speech. He was amazed that something like this was happening in February.
Same with Miles in his first year.
Fun times.
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At the end the band played the fight songs and Saban gave a speech. He was amazed that something like this was happening in February.
Same with Miles in his first year.
Fun times.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 12:05 pm to geauxpurple
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The first one i went to was Saban’s first year. That may have been when we signed Michael Clayton and that group.
My dad and I were there.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 12:07 pm to Boodis Man
Didn't some snow bunny GF get hip-checked out of the TV screen by a player's mom?
Posted on 12/5/25 at 12:32 pm to SoFla Tideroller
That was Russell Wilson’s starter gf
Posted on 12/5/25 at 12:36 pm to Hoops
That was the NFL draft, wasn't it? The one I'm thinking was NSD and the mother Angel Reese'd the girl right out of the picture. 
Posted on 12/5/25 at 12:47 pm to Chastains
Robert Meachem shocking every person on the face of the earth and signing with Tennessee instead of in-state Oklahoma.
Ulysses Alexander signing his letter of intent for Tennessee but accidentally sending it to Auburn. Auburn wouldn’t release him so he was a Tiger, although he didn’t amount to much.
Ulysses Alexander signing his letter of intent for Tennessee but accidentally sending it to Auburn. Auburn wouldn’t release him so he was a Tiger, although he didn’t amount to much.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 12:48 pm to biglego
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I hate you. frick Alabama
Y’all will be flying high here shortly. Kiffin will have this rivalry kicked into full gear soon.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 12:51 pm to Chastains
Les dropping an F-Bomb at the recruiting bash at the Atrium with the wives and children of his assistant coaches all up on stage.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 1:34 pm to chinese58
quote:I have never understood why black people need “mentors” and “handlers.”
He seemed like a nice kid, but was taking advise from a "Mentor", or maybe a "handler", the infamous Willie Lyles
How the shite have they taken mentor and turned it into something so goddamn sketchy?
Posted on 12/5/25 at 1:40 pm to ReauxlTide222
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I have never understood why black people need “mentors” and “handlers.”
Well the unfiltered answer to that is that a large percentage of them don't have a present father
Posted on 12/5/25 at 1:57 pm to Riseupfromtherubble
So they need wildly obvious sketchy fricks to steal money from them?
This post was edited on 12/5/25 at 1:59 pm
Posted on 12/5/25 at 2:08 pm to Hoops
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That was Russell Wilson’s starter gf
Naw that was Isaiah Wilson
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If tweet fails to load, click here. Russell's Wilson's first wife got caught in an unfortunate freeze frame
Posted on 12/5/25 at 2:14 pm to SoFla Tideroller
Oh damn I didn’t remember that one lol
Posted on 12/5/25 at 2:15 pm to ReauxlTide222
quote:Every year the LSU coaches that were recruiting kids Alabama was also recruiting, felt good about signing them up until the moment they committed to Bama. We always thought he told all of the kids that LSU was recruiting to hold off on announcing until NSD. I don't know what he told them, as far as why they should wait, but I always thought it was so we couldn't recruit similar level guys to replace them. We knew Saban had the kind of sway with kids that he could get them to announce their commitment whenever he wanted to. They were all his secret commits, and he didn't want them to tell the other teams coaches they were already committed.
Saban HAD to have been setting up some of those situations.
This post was edited on 12/5/25 at 2:17 pm
Posted on 12/5/25 at 2:19 pm to chinese58
I remember telling this site for months that Janzen Jackson was not coming to LSU and people still believed.
Coach O is the one who started that shite. I don't think Saban really did it until after O did it with JJ.
Coach O is the one who started that shite. I don't think Saban really did it until after O did it with JJ.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 2:52 pm to SlowFlowPro
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Coach O is the one who started that shite. I don't think Saban really did it until after O did it with JJ.
This was a Pete and Coach O special. They always had top out of state guys keep quiet until the last minute to avoid outside pressure to flip back to the hometown team.
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