We disagree with you. We want our kids to have state pride. Stay home. Help us whip you guys and play for championships.
Missing the point entirely shane. It has nothing to do with kids coming out of Louisiana. If you look at Florida's top ten players last year over half left the state. Georgia kept less than a third of their top players in state. Same scenario in Texas with half of them leaving. California was the only state to keep more than 50% of their top 10 players within the borders. Kids aren't exclusively exposed to one school in one state any longer. The landscape of recruiting has just changed. Those that are upset about it? They just don't understand how recruiting has changed over the last 10-15 years.
I agree, while I would love to have all of the to talent stay at lsu it ain't going to happen too often. Looking at past recruiting classes we've lost on average about 4.5 of our top players pretty much every since 2000. It's just that for a while there in the 80's & 90's we were losing about 8 of the top 10. And nowadays these kids have so much access to information and players from around the country that recruiting boundaries are damn gone.
I get that. What I'm talking about is when there is a specific need. Like OL and we lose C rob. DT and we lose the other dude to FLY. That type of stuff. Of course you won't get the star QB if you have a roster full. Txt can't keep em all because there are too many. You can bet most of em want to play at Texas and will accept if offered. Same for most big states. LSU has no competition within the state.
I think you just want to believe that Shane. And I can understand where you are coming from in a way. But CROB was going out of state even if offered the Crown Jewels. And I'll add yes we do miss on some I really wish we would not, and it does get me upset. But these are kids, back in the day, way back, I knew a heavily recruited guy extremely well who bled purple and gold. When he signed with Bama everyone was flabbergasted, including his family. He just couldn't resist the Bear.
I understand where you're coming from there. Point still remains though... Take Indiana. 60% of the top ten left the state. About 2% of collegiate football players come from that state. Louisiana is still an anomaly when it comes to keeping kids in state...but look at the rest of college football.
I don't even think that Albertsons was there at the time. Regardless his mom was a BR cop working an off duty security detail at a grocery store that was once an A&P but was something else at the time. She was escorting the manager to a bank a block away to make the closing deposit. A group off gangsters gunned them both down. This all happened near the intersection of Jefferson and Lobdell (a block south of Lobdell and LaSalle Ave of all places). She had been raising several children as a single mother, thus inspiring him to help single mothers everywhere he went. I heard at the time, that he just wanted out of Baton Rouge. I don't blame him for making that choice. LSU probably recognized this and let him go.
For a rare few yes and it should be rare. When the flagship isn't capable of locking down top in state talent at a position of need then there is a problem. I realize some of you have a mouth full of lesticles and that is also a problem but one that has been beaten to death. See it how you will.
Just goes to show you more talent is grown in the boot. Hence the name... I used to live over there. There was a burger king and a circle k there when I lived there.
