Re: Darrington Sentimore Giving Sabin a foothold over here is not a good thing... take it from a old timer who remembers the bear.
Re: Darrington Sentimore LSU wasn't competing for championships during that time. Miles pretty much has his pick of the litter. Other than McNothin it's been Miles passing on them not them choosing another school over LSU.
Re: Darrington Sentimore If the Tigers really wanted DS, he'd be a Tiger commit. Miles said 18-22 in one of his last conferences. Trust the hat - DL is one of his priorities, along with LB and "a RB we covet". Cue Bob Marley and "Two Little Birds": don't worry 'bout a ting...
Re: Darrington Sentimore Just won MVP of the 5A State championship. For some reason I still feel that we offer him in the near future. With a good showing in front of Les it may do the trick. However, I have not been keeping up with how the grades are looking. DHS 17 WM 3
Re: Darrington Sentimore Definitely feel he deserves the shot especially over Josh Johns or some other project.
Re: Darrington Sentimore A good showing in front of Les? I am not following. Those opportunities are long gone now.
Re: Darrington Sentimore Dandy Don today wrote about how he was "very impressed" with Sentimore last night, and I have seen others on other boards say they were impressed with how he played last night. As for myself, I was at the Dome last night, and for a good part of the game I was sitting behind the east endzone and I had a perfect close-up angle to see how well Sentimore [SIZE=-1](6'2, 280) [/SIZE] looked when he was on that end of the field -- and he was not impressive. He was part of a 3-man front, and he lined up across from West Monroe's left guard, who was the smallest guy on West Monroe's OL--and that guy by himself contained a much bigger Sentimore on every single play except for one: when the play took forever to develop, the pocket collapsed, the West Monroe ball-carrier tried to take it up field before Sentimore arm-checked him in the chest and knocked him to the ground. When Sentimore got tangled up with big #75 David Hurd (6'7, 286) -- that guy owned Sentimore. Big Hurd lined up mostly at left tackle (sometimes right tackle), and for some reason, his blocking assignment rarely included Sentimore. Apparently West Monroe had no respect for Sentimore... Big Hurd mostly ignored him, leaving the little left tackle out there to contain out by himself (which he did). Had West Monroe bothered to double-team Sentimore, Sentimore would have spent most of the game getting knocked to his butt and picking himself off the ground. Granted, Sentimore wasn't the only guy to worry about on the Destrehan DL -- their other DE was just as big as Sentimore... and West Monroe didn't just have to worry about Destrehan's DL... Destrehan had all kinds of great athletes on their team, including MLB Rufus Porter (Rivals 3-star). Now granted, I also saw Sentimore with his hands on his hips, his head slumped--obviously tired... and granted, I'm only talking about what I saw from what I got to see of Sentimore from when I had a good close-up look of his battle in the trenches... and that was probably only 1/3 to 1/4 of the game. For example, during the same time that I was sitting in the east endzone, Sentimore had a fast sack on the other side of the field that I didn't have a good view of, and even when I watched the replay on the jumbotron, the video quality and camera angle was so poor that I couldn't tell if Sentimore actually did anything impressive or if it was a missed blocking assignment or some other fluke. Regardless, of the four state championship games I watched this weekend, Sentimore was the least impressive game MVP of all of them (the most impressive was the 3A MVP Gavin Webster and 4A MVP Blake Matherne, both of them looked like superman in their games)... as for Sentimore, he was not the MVP in my book. The real MVP of the 5A game was Destrehan senior MLB #55 Rufus Porter (6'1, 215), who is a Rivals 3-star (#51 OLB in the nation). At the very end of the game, West Monroe was down 7-3, and they drove all the way down the field to the Destrehan 13 yard line, and it looked like they were going to get the go-ahead TD to win the game 10-7 -- and then Porter gets an interception and returned it 98 yards down the right sideline for a TD, preserving the victory for Destrehan. That guy was the MVP in my book. Destrehan Wildcats assistant coach Greg Gathers picks up most valuable player Darrington Sentimore after their 2008 Class 5A LHSAA Prep Classic championship football game with West Monroe Rebels in the Superdome in New Orleans, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008. Destrehan won 14-3.
