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In fairness, he’s already said that if LSU blows this weekend he’d have a different perspective. We’ll see I guess.

125 vs opponents 41 HBP! It was a bit extreme this year.

Agreed. It’s happened in the past because typically good players at a position of need are available at the pick.

This year, besides Stingley who the saints don’t “need” and will be long gone, is the only Tiger in the discussion.

If anyone is meeting about a 4th/5th rd pick, some perspective is badly needed.

In what world would you envision LSU ever being at the level of Kansas, Duke, etc? Who would be the coach?

That’s fair (the first part; the ignorant SOB nonsense is, idk, ignorant?). Just because it happened last doesn’t mean it’s the only thing that contributed to the loss.

Literally just before the travel and foul, LSU threw up an air ball with 15 left on the shot clock, at the end of the game, with the lead. That was a terrible shot when LSU was…in great position to win the game. When Gaines rebounds the air ball and immediately flings up of some sort weird sideways whacking dance move, with 12 left on the clock indicating, I’m sure, he had no idea how much time was left and must have thought there was no time left, it’s a pretty clear example of his head not being in the game at the most important time of the game, i.e., not playing well at the end of the game. If he comes down and goes back up, it’s an easy two pts when LSU…was in great position to win the game.

LSU doesn’t play well at the end of games and they certainly didn’t close this one out. But (and maybe you didn’t read my full post) as I said, LSU shouldn’t be put into the close games by bad calls throughout when it should be a ten pt lead at the end…and this is how it plays out. The refs aren’t all of sudden going to bail out LSU for playing poor ball at the very end; they’re going to take another chance to make a bad call.

And even though the travel didn’t get called, a smart player on a smart team knows that you don’t rake down on the arms of a guy holding the ball with 8 secs left and give the ref a chance to even make that call. That’s poor defense at the end of a game when LSU was…in a great position to win the game.

But, I’m not going to argue against my own point after finally calming down from that shite show and watching their idiot coach ride the donkey all over the court after the game as over. That’d be some ignorant SOB type shite.

So I guess both sides of extremists need to realize both things are actually happening. LSU isn’t good enough to win the majority of close games. And the refs shouldn’t be putting them in close games with crap calls when they aren’t going to let them win in the end anyway with another crap call.

This mostly supports your point but also a bit of “in fairness” to LSU.

They signed a 5* (massive bust) and a 4* who is in the NFL followed by another 4* in Jazz Ferguson. All three were in state guys. And a 4th ranked higher than SMJ.

So, to your point, plenty of misevaluation considering how good SMJ turned out to be. But at least with the top two WR, LSU theoretically had a couple of potential great ones followed by another in-state guy in Jazz. I don’t even remember who the 4th guy is, Brandon Martin.

Hindsight, would have been great to sign SMJ. But also having 3 highly ranked in-state guys onboard…only so many spots, right.

~37% last two years. 14th in made 3s in the league in 55 games last year. 43% on catch and shoot 3s on almost 300 attempts. 5th in made threes the year before. He’s got to chunk them up at 10 a game but, being at all optimistic, if he can get even a little bit better on the %, more consistent, that’s a lot of 3 balls going in when they have to out score teams because defense (also being part of the problem) isn’t so good. Obviously that’s a long way from the last ~20 games. Especially if Zion’s at point he just needs to knock down catch and shoot 3s when he’s on the floor. Hopefully he figures it out.

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Thought the same. He drifted on a couple of routes (maybe on purpose?) but most of his routes were sharp and was able to get open on those cuts. If his hands are good as some say, and he made some tough catches on film, looks like he’s got a little speed, a little power, and St Aug isn’t playing a bunch of nobodies.

Jets is a high bar but as far 2*s go, he looks good.

Looks like it’s UF vs LSU. Perk said he really liked UF and Mathews has always leaned LSU. If momma wants her boy closer to home, hopefully that helps.

Moscona (I know y’all hate the guy; not the point) mentioned they are trying to see if they can play together.

Hopefully Napier/UF community hasn’t figured out NIL well enough (no idea) and LSU/ Gordon can get it done and the pair can play together, putting Mathews where he’s always wanted to be and Perk closer his momma.

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The dude played Safety, WR, QB, and punt returner in HS. Can probably play CB…could probably put on some weight and play LB. Be our new “emergency QB” at LSU.

Highlights show he seems to have a high FB IQ too. Beaks up plays on WRs he didn’t even start guarding at the beginning of the play. Great break on the ball but also seems to have a good feel for where it’s going.

If Sage is a legit 5*, he and Mathews and Langlois and D Davis (if he keeps getting better)…that is a sick group and we didn’t even mention the two probable ‘22 starters in Ward (unless he’s back at CB) and M Burns. Not sure Toles will have a spot since he hasn’t gotten in there yet.

CB is shallow but Safety is deep.

No idea how closely he can/is working with coaching or others at the university but, Gordon has coordinated big things for NIL apparently. Got businesses together to commit millions. He said a few weeks ago that things should be in place in a couple of weeks and then we saw recruits begin to lean and or transfer to LSU indicating he\they did indeed get NIL organized.

Appreciate the work he did because this has to be led from the community and not the school, technically anyway.