Loco was actually defending them a bit. It was ET that was bashing them. He has a very mature outlook on athletes and life. If you weren't an All-American at LSU, you suck, basically. And if he read anything different than what you or others personally experienced or have knowledge of, then you are wrong, and what he read is right, and he can post that for you as evidence (see convo. b/t he and Bhelm in other thread).
On Marinovich....no, he won't have a display in the CFHoF unless it's about fabulous freshmen. "Marinovich became the first freshman quarterback to start the first game of the season for USC since WWII. After an upset loss to Illinois in part due to a coaching decision to minimize his role, Marinovich improved; he completed 197 of 321 passes during the regular season for 16 touchdowns and 12 interceptions with a 61.4% rate, 0.1% behind Bernie Kosar's NCAA freshman record. Against Washington State, Marinovich led a last-minute comeback that became known as "The Drive". He led the offense on a 91-yard march downfield with 11 crucial completions, including a touchdown pass and a 2-pt conversion. The Trojans went 9–2–1, won the Pac10 conference, and defeated Michigan in the 1990 Rose Bowl. UPI and The Sporting News named Marinovich the College Freshman of the Year for 1989; he was the only freshman on the All-Pac-10 team and the first freshman quarterback named." He went in to his soph year as a Heisman hopeful. Everyone knows what happened. He'd been under his dad's totalitarian thumb his entire life, living an unreal set of expectations. USC and Los Angeles offered all the distractions that an unstable, immature, under-pressure kid might take advantage of, and he did. His drug habit got the best of him from that time on. He used to bounce outside of a pizza place across the street from the dental school. Every time we would go in, he'd be sitting on a stool outside, stoned as a motherphucker, and he couldn't be nicer, lol. Really, really sad. A few years ago I saw him at a game and I almost couldn't recognize him. This is truth. The kids you pass on want to "show you" and you get their best effort every year.
Utter and complete nonsense and pretty much shows you a recruiting virgin. For one thing, if you sign more than one high profile QB in a class, one of them is not going to hang around....ask Gunner Kiel...ask some of the several Alabama QBs who have transfered out of there who were highly rated....ask Kenny Hill who was displaced by Allen (actually the next class). And BTW, since you obviously don't keep up with recruiting, you can view the sidelines of many college teams and see highly rated stud guys who never made it. Jeff Driskell is one...Mitch Mustain is another...but there are dozens and dozens of examples. Dwayne Crist another...the Heaps kid out of WA state another. You really need to up your posting game. So far, I have little more than nonsense from you. I believe you are the same poster who claimed that LSU didn't sign 8 out of the top 15 LA prospects in 2015 class. You cherry-picked the list that tried to make that claim and then when I brought up certain positions dominating the list, you didn't have the guts to address that point either. Find some integrity, guy, and while you are at it, try to become educated on recruiting. So far you prove yourself the fool here!
I think that theory is the most overrated I have ever heard/seen. So let me get this straight. You are saying that guys that LSU passes on play better against LSU than guys that LSU offers and choose that other school anyway? Sorry, but that is nothing more than an "urban legend" IMO. And once again, with the scholarship limits, you can't sign everyone you might want even it they want you. Once again, Gerry Dinardo is 100% correct. The ones that hurt you are the guys who don't develop, NOT the ones you don't sign. Signed Greg Gilmore, Frank Herron, Anthony Johnson, Anthony Jennings and Brandon Harris (so far), Evan Washington, and hundreds of other recent players at LSU and other schools
Opinion based on what, exactly? Your observation....got it. I have my own opinion too broham. Take all day. Write a paper, in fact. That is not what I said. . Homey, I can school you on scholarship limits and how to succeed despite them. Well that's interesting. Is Gerry offering an explanation for his own limitations? Afterall his record at LSU is 32-24 overall, but 18-20 in conference. 0-7 conference in 1999 before he got fired but Saban won the SEC just 2 years later with Gerry's recruits, right? Are the players the failure or the coach(s)? Anyhow, here's the point....again.....if a player wants to play for a school and the school doesn't have a mutual interest, and the player gets an opportunity to play against that school in-conference, they they will give a little extra to prove to school A, what they missed out on. Have you never heard the saying, "the best revenge is to look good"?
Yeah, and I expressed my opinion....so what is your point? Actually, I know about scholarship limits so save your patronizing attitude for someone who doesn't. What was the point of posting Dinardo's record (not quoted above)....never said the guy was a great head coach did I? BTW, I was referencing Dinardo and have used that quote by him before...and as I have mentioned sometimes in the past, I doubt he even came up with it. Regardless, my agreeing with the quote doesn't mean I vote him in as a coach in the College Football Hall of Fame. Once again, you repeat the same thing you did before....that a guy scorned by a school plays better or has something to prove...little more than an urban legend. 0 proof that has ever occured. Oh, and please don't resort to what announcers might say during the game regarding a guy playing in the game (nothing more than yellow journalism on their part to try to stir up things). How else is the guy going to get his name mentioned and talked about during the game. Anyway, most of your post had nothing to do with my point, but like you said, your opinion.
That "thinking" is fine but it ain't fact. It isn't patronizing for a USC fan to claim King of the Hill when it comes to scholarship limits. Hey, for the last few years, we were #1 at something. His record at LSU might suggest that coaching up might not be his forte. I hesitate to endorse his point of view. "When Torrodney Prevot heard the Oregon Ducks were going to the Alamo Bowl to play Texas, his reaction was silent. “My mouth dropped,’’ the Ducks’ linebacker said. His initial reaction has been the only time he has been silent since. The Houston native grew up a Longhorns fan, was heavily recruited by Texas and he has friends and football peers who attend the school. “For me to be playing them, I wouldn’t say it’s revenge, but there’s definitely something there,’’ Prevot said. “It’s like a fight against them. Because I’ve had some battles with them, the Texas recruits, a few rivalries out there. But beyond that, I just feel like it will be a big game. Seeing friends from home, knowing the coaching staff over there ... it’s going to be fun.’’ AND.... "Peat, who prepped at Mission Viejo High School in Southern California, saw Carroll roaming the halls at MVHS more than once as the Trojans went after a quarterback by the name of Mark Sanchez. Now a senior offensive lineman for the Beavers, Peat says he didn't get any recruiting interest from USC. "Not even a second glance," Peat said. "Pete Carroll was there and I'm sure (he watched me) and was like, 'Ah, um, no.' They recruit the best of the best and none of us are usually their caliber of player. "Or so they think." Peat's recruiting anecdote is common among Oregon State players who played high school ball in the Southern California area. A handful of them, like senior corner Tim Clark, who is from Compton, and safety Lance Mitchell, who is from Pasadena, grew up in USC's backyard -- but they didn't get a sniff from the Trojans. "I think not being recruited by your hometown team is a little bit of a slap in the face," Mitchell said. When OSU pulled off shockers in 2006 and 2008 by beating the Trojans in Corvallis, they did it without any players who were seriously recruited by USC. Should the Beavers win Saturday in L.A. -- something they haven't done since 1960 -- they'll do it with a similar footnote. The one exception is true freshman Markus Wheaton, who had an offer from USC coming out of Chandler High School in Chandler, Ariz. "Obviously there's a chip on our shoulders because we weren't recruited by them," Peat said...... Howard Croom, a tight end from Long Beach, Calif., thinks the Beavers get extra hyped to play USC. Maybe that's why he said the following to Trojan defensive end Everson Griffen. "I was blocking him all night," Croom recalled. "Coach was on us last year about finishing through the whistle, don't stop even if they get mad. I kept blocking him real hard and he got mad. He was holding onto my arm when we were walking to the next play and I hit it down. He looked at me and said, 'You're terrible.' "I said, 'Yeah, I'm terrible, nobody knows me and you're an All-American -- and I'm handling you right now.'" Croom, who grew up a USC fan, said last year's win meant a little extra something for him and the other players from Southern California. "We weren't good enough (for them)," Croom said, "but we were good enough on (Thursday night)." You were saying?
Now THAT was indeed funny. One has nothing to do with the other. In fact, perhaps what he said about signing guys who don't contributed portended his demise. I didn't bother commenting on smack talk by players who supposedly felt disrespected. That isn't proof in any way, shape, or form. They can feel "spit on" all they like....I have seen players time and time again in games who were not recruited by the opponent when they thought they should have been....and what happened in the game? They proved why the team not offering them a scholarship looked like geniuses. Once again, an urban legend and hype that announcers and the print media use to try to add interest to a game.
