NotaStarGazer

I agree. And like I said, this is completely different than the Trinidad situation which some people bring up. He actually would have an extra year to play at Ole Miss under the old standard if he had taken the RS year he was entitled to at his previous school...Grand Canyon or whatever it was. The only thing abnormal about Trinidad's deal is he wanted his RS year like 3 years later. :lol:

I pick LSU to go 10-2 but to be honest, I had them 10-2 last year. But to be fair, I didn't realize 2 things...1) I never thought Sloan was a great OC or Davis a good OL coach, but both were dismal 2) I also didn't realize Brian Kelly was just going to mail it in as a head coach.. This year the coaching improvement is off the charts with Kiffin and Weiss with Blake Baker the solid DC back with much better talent to utilize.

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that foot injury is a bad one to recover from

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Already 100% if he can run at 21 mph and do windmill dunks as Kiffin recently said,. I guess we don't need to refer to you at Dr Pitchandcatch27, huh? :rotflmao:

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Our QB (coming off injury) will have spent a total of 6 weeks with our cobbled together offensive roster by the time that game arrives.

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First, Leavitt seems to be 100%. Running at 21 mph and being able to do windmill dunks per Kiffin pretty much confirms that. Second, a "cobbled together {talented} offensive roster" is 10 times better than an OL for example with little talent as 2025 had. Only the center Braelin Moore was an SEC caliber starting OL.

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They will have no chemistry, anticipation, timing.... its going to be rough

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Ridiculously overrated. You know the teams that people say have no chemistry LOSE games. If those exact same players win the same games, all of sudden they have chemistry. You have 0 idea about those factors you mentioned...0 !

We have all agreed that the OL could have been better...much better. :lol: Having said that, I saw some MAJOR flaws in his game. 1) he refused to run past the LOS which of course meant even on scrambles, the defense could run hard at him knowing he wouldn't try to get past them 2) his decision making was slow. I guess I was used to Burrow and Daniels but I really think that Nussmeier needed to utilize the VR equipment like those 2 did. I remember Daniels saying he even set the speed HIGHER than normal speed. My GUESS is Nussmeier never used such equipment.

You can definitely find varying depth charts but I personally trust Scott of DandyDon website the most. He actually attends most of the practices and thus he can tell who is "running with the 1s" assuming no one is injured. At DT, he has Geralds and Anderson as the starters and actually has Blocton and Green ahead of McKinley IF he is listing all the substitute DTs in order.

He also has Dillon Jones from Wisconsin as the #1 RB with Berry on the 2nd team.

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A large number of clueless Rantknockers told us that Rickie Collins was going to be the next great SEC QB

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Yeah, I remember that well. I THINK Lester Earl was one of them BTW. He loves to "project" guys who aren't that highly rated as being future stars. I said at the time on this or another site that Rickie Collins has "0% chance to ever start an LSU game". He started a few games as Syracuse QB after the starter got hurt and STILL couldn't hold on to the job. I watched his HS highlights and they were just mediocre plays at best...and those were HIGHlights. Earl said the same thing about Charles Ross as some sleeper stud. The guy played special teams as a TR FR and made 1 tackle.

A few weeks ago he disagreed with me about Burney the WR commit. I said "he will never start a game for LSU". Then, he posted how his 40 time had improved from basically hideous to just slow for a WRer. Wasn't Wizard of Oz type stuff...offers are bad...rating is one of the worst of all LSU commits...highlights very pedestrian. If scholarships were more limited, I would call that a wasted scholarship.

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The DT position as a whole didn't produce much last season. Same for DE from a disruptive stand point. They were adequate and held their position for the most part but there was no dynamic element ie sacks, TFLs.

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:cheers: Yeah, while everyone was obsessed with the poor OL play for good reason, I was in the minority and criticized the DL at the same time. The DE couldn't rush the passer, there was no push up the middle, and those 3rd and long conversions fell squarely at their feet. I thought the secondary did their job for the most part but the DL didn't put enough pressure on the QB in obvious passing situations.

Specifically to D McKinley just sticking with the star system this one time, he was rated a 5* out of HS and has played no better than a low 4*. How many times did he make plays? Was he a bust...no, not really. But IMO he was barely an SEC caliber starter which is why he won't be starting this season. BTW, a BUNCH of posters warned he was overrated who actually saw him play in HS games they attended. They pretty much were spot on in their assessments...decent player for sure but not remotely close to 5*.

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but if someone wants to bet you he sticks with Texas Tech, take that bet

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Sorsby might take that bet! Sorry, had to do it.

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Ok, now that was :rotflmao: :cheers:

Right, that is pretty much exactly what I said also. Doesn't mean TT is going to get out of the NIL market, but everyone is keeping a keen eye on them after that Sorsby fiasco. I can't remember EVER seeing an issue where NO ONE...and I mean NO ONE took one side(TT's) of that situation. Everyone but Texas Tech condemned how they were handling that situation where a player had blatantly violated the no gambling guidelines that have been in place for decades in both college and pro sports.

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I would be shocked if he decommitted at this point but if any school could pull it off its LSU

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This is a good test of the recruiting services inside info. If you believe them, he will not be going to Texas Tech.