The departure of Tac should open up a schollie, I believe Jai is still uncommitted and we were on him early. TnH - is there any chance we could make a late push for him? There's an open PG spot on a pretty talented team next year if he wants it.
The staff has completely backed off of him. With Tack and LSU's relationship possibly souring as well as Tack's closeness with the Lucas family, I would not expect a chance in Gehenna of getting Lucas to come to LSU.
Hate to agree with Deek, but I'd say it's a very long shot. This is the thing that kind of baffles me about this recruiting staff, especially with guards. Jai Lucas had us listed high, then in the middle of the year we started flirting with Keegan Bell. Bell turns us down, Jai starts to not hear from us. We decide we need more frontcourt players, or we get signs Jai less into us. We start to recruit Tommy Mason Griffin, who's on Jai's AAU team two years behind him. I don't know if there's some hidden rivalry there, but the staff decides TMG is the better recruit, even though he's a sophomore. Granted, Jai would get a TON of PT on this squad, given it SORELY needs a ball handler and someone with some court leadership skillls. I don't know if LSU can make up the ground. Worth a shot, but odds are certainly against them. If there's any team that could use a PG, it's LSU...
i think we need to have faith (just a little, though) in the coaches recruiting. would they just stop calling jai for no reason? they have more of an interest in recruiting than we do. they know more about basketball than we do. they know more about scouting than we do. they have more inside knowledge on the recruits than we do. there are tons of reasons why the staff would stop contacting jai. the only inexcusable one i can think of is "jai is too good, he wont come here". i really doubt thats the reason.
You know, all that is true... yet, you see what you see on the court. There can be few more glaringly obvious statements than that Brady and staff have failed miserably at getting SEC caliber PGs to come to, or develop at, LSU. I see no reason to have faith in the staff in this regard. To have committed TMG for 2009, a class of just forwards for 2007, says that they thought our PG play was solid for this season and next, and possibly 2008. I did expect it to be better than it has been but then again I didn't expect Glen Davis to be doing a Dwayne Scales act. Maybe we can bring in someone for 2008. Has anybody heard anything on the status of James Tyler? (Last report, expelled from Patterson School where he was playing on the prep team as a JR, I believe.)
