paper tiger

Every week or so an article pops up somewhere predicting LSU’s big breakout wide receiver this year. One thing thats kind of crazy is at least five different names have been mentioned as our best receiver, most prominently Jayce Brown, Jackson Harris, Tre Wilson, Tre Brown and Winston Watkins.

To make it even crazier, for a school like LSU that has been recruiting and churning out NFL receivers the last twenty years or more, none of the five most mentioned as breakout receivers were not lsu high school signess out of high school. They are all transfers. It’s going to be confusing with two Tre’s and two Brown”s we never saw play before to learn who is who, lol.

Jayce Brown and Jackson Harris are the ones I see mentioned most often as probable starters, although I did see a big article recently crowning Tre Wilson as the jewel of the wr transfer class.

As for the slot, I was watching some video highlights of the group just for something to do. Highlight videos have a way of making everyone look all pro. One thing that caught my eye was the video of Watkins in the slot at Ole Miss and how fast he pops up after every tackle and is sprinting to line back up for the next play.

Kiffin is the master of the hurry up offense and punishes defenses with it. It takes players with discipline to do it, there’s no time to linger on the ground, no time do celebrate and no time to jaw with the defenders.its all about lining up and being ready to go for the next play faster than defense to get set, recognize the offensive formation, and call their defense.

in his highlights, there is no wasted time with Watkins after getting tackled, he’s lining back before they move the chains. I assume thats no accident, that Weis and Kiffin drilled that into him. Watson looks like one of those smaller, kind of fast twitch kids, you see in the slot that can be very hard for nickel backs or safeties to cover. I am guessing he is the guy to beat out to play slot wr for Kiffin with his experience in knowing what Kiffin expects of him and his familiarity with the offense.

On a completely unrelated note, anyone have any idea who is the mix for kick off and punt returns? I saw Harlem Berry mentioned as kick off returner. I would think punt returner comes from the group of wide outs listed above.

Here is link to Watkins highlights at Ole Miss, keep in mind he was a true freshman at the time:

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Thx, I saw this video Zach Nagy posted on X and it struck me how tall Benefield looked on the clip LINK

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Measuring football players in MPH is stupid. Football players never run a mile, and they never run for an hour. The tried and true standards of 40 times and 100 times have served us well for over a century. If you already know a ball player runs a 4.4, what is gained by converting that to MPH? This thread is testament to the fact people don’t know MPH as it relates to football.

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Hey, I was only posting what Kiffin tweeted. I guess Kiffin thinks mph is a more important football metric than you do. Otherwise, why would he post it?

I imagine I am not the first to notice the similarity, but am I the only one who Mason Braun’s jerky batting routine which ends up with him in a bad arse looking batting stance reminds them of Jack Parkman in major league 2? Lol Braun has the Parkman stare too.

If I knew how to post clips of Braun and Parkman doing their batting routine I would. Braun’s routine where hard twerks his lead shoulder a few times is great, you will never confuse him for anyone else.

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Putting standfield back in will weaken a little. He's not a consistent hitter we have better hitters that can play left fiel

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It’s a very small sample size so far. Wasn’t Stanfield our leading hitter against SEC pitching last year? When you add in his speed and fielding ability, I think his starting spot is very secure. It’s a nice problem to have, Simpson probably has more pop in his bat.

I think once Stanfield is fully recovered, Simpson’s primary role will be DH.

If anyone finds it, let me know. Our consensus first team all American Curiel has the lowest batting average, but everyone knows that will change. We lose for a few games one of the best SEC outfielders, Stanfield, and his replacement, Simpson, is only hitting .429. Reeves, the rant whipping boy who is not even starting now, is hitting .333. When Stanfield comes back, options at DH include Simpson, Braun, Pearson Rucker and Serna.

Yeah, yeah yeah, it’s early and the competition is inferior. But still, in most years LSU has had at least one or two starters who you felt like were almost automatic outs. There is just no let up for opposing pitchers in the LSU lineup this year, at least so far. And exit speeds do not lie, the ball is just popping off LSU bats.

The hardest part of Jay Johnson’s job has to be filling out his lineup up card and leaving players on the bench who have played well given the opportunity. From a batting standpoint, this is a super deep team. There is like no player that comes to bat that makes you cringe.

LSU plays Ole Miss in Oxford in September. No coach moves the media needle anymore than Kiffin. With all the drama surrounding Kiffin leaving the rebels, everyone will be watching. It will be a prime time game.

That makes the ncaa decision of whether Chambliss gets another season a huge decision with potential playoff implications. Chambliss is their Burrow. How good would LSU have been without Burrow?

It’s kinda win/win for me, I guess. The game gets way more exciting to watch if Chambliss is playing and LSU gets more credit for beating Ole Miss with their star qb playing. If he gets eligible, so be it. Sounds fun to watch to me.

If Chambliss is not eligible, I’m cool with that too. I don’t care how the ncaa rules, its not my circus, not my monkeys. If Ole Miss loses Chambliss, LSU chances go up, so be it. Ole Miss should have planned better.

I think given how good Chambliss is combined with his familiarity with the offense, that he makes as much as a 6 to 7 point move in the spread.

Too many points? Too few? Stupid topic? I was just trying to make the point that the decision on Chambliss’s eligibility is of great relevance to LSU.

I think Chambliss has near zero chance with the ncaa now, they are not budging. I did read somewhere that an ncaa decision might be appealable to the Mississippi Supreme Court. As a general rule, one’s chances of getting a Supreme Court of any state to overturn an administrative decision are very low.

But this is not a general rule. You could have the elected Supreme Court of Mississippi ruling on the eligibility of a star Ole Miss player. That could even the playing field if it’s true that Ole Miss will have some right to appeal to the Miss Supreme Court.

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We’ve had so much talent come through the program…

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It does fell like we should have won more for sure. But it’s not like we have wasted anymore NFL talent than anyone else has. LSU has three national championships since 2003. Only Bama has more.

Texas A&M has been loaded with athletes for years with no championships in that timeframe. Talk about wasting talent. It’s hard to win championships.

With players getting 5 million plus in come cases, college football is a business more than ever. Its very likely LSU, Tennessee, Miami and other top programs now have attys drafting player contracts.

One has to assume due diligence is involved whenever one is spending millions. Due diligence can take many forms, like doing a background check or interviewing past coaches for discipline and character issue.

With a guy like Leavitt, I would think that due diligence extends to his medical situation. I am no nil expert, but part of my due diligence would be to have Leavitt copies of his medical records relating to his surgery and then have a orthopedist of my choosing review the records, at a minimum, if not see Leavitt.

That's all a long way of saying, I think its a safe bet that LSU, Tennessee and Miami have all done some sort of due diligence on the lis franc injury and have concluded that the surgery was successful and that his recovery is on track.

Of course there are no guarantees. But his issue with lis franc is well known. The fact Tennessee is so hard after Leavitt likely means that whoever is their medical advisor must have done some due diligence and concluded Leavitt appears to be on schedulr with his recovery. I would hope and expect LSU has done their due diligence too.

Somewhere Colonel Reb and Glenn Guilbeau are crying.

Guilbeau mocked Kiffin’ reputation as the portal king when Kiffin got off to a slow start. Will he have the stones enough to tip his hat to Kiffin and admit he was wrong? Meh, who really cares if he does or doesnt. Lol.