Meet TE/WR Arik Gilbert

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  1. islstl

    islstl Playoff committee is a group of great football men Staff Member

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    6'6" 250 lbs, runs like a gazel, super smart, polished receiver.

    A natural basketball player, he'll body up the defenders rendering them useless in their attempts to stop him.

    He's gonna work harder than any LSU player on this team.

    He's the best of Jimmy Graham, Gronk and Shannon Sharpe all rolled into 1.

    He's going to make the transition for Myles Brennan a lot easier.

     
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  2. tzanghi

    tzanghi Founding Member

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    There’s one thing that I am really going to dislike about Gilbert. It’s that he’ll only be here for 3 years.
     
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  3. CajunlostinCali

    CajunlostinCali Booger Eatin Moron

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    You gotta appreciate these kids who commit to football later in their youth. They put in 10 times the amount of work to get to the level they want to be. Work ethic and team character cannot be overcome by skill alone. This kid is legit and blessed we have him instead of having to defend him.
     
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  4. islstl

    islstl Playoff committee is a group of great football men Staff Member

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    That might be his best attribute, his character.

    And that's saying something, because his physical skills are something we have rarely seen in a tight end at the collegiate level.
     
  5. mctiger

    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    3 years is plenty if they're not wasted.
     
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  6. islstl

    islstl Playoff committee is a group of great football men Staff Member

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    Like Fournette was.

    This is essentially the deserved hype of a Fournette but at tight end. Just to put it in perspective what we are looking at here.
     
  7. mctiger

    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    247sports gives its list of the top 25 recruits for LSU since 2001. They list Gilbert at 14 (Elias Ricks is 15). The top 25 (with my opinion on how they turned out, based on all 25 being 5-stars with 247)
    1. Leonard Fournette - about a year and a half out of 3 seasons where he met the grade, injuries were a factor
    2. Russell Shepard - criminally underused
    3. Derek Stingley - lived up to the grade as a freshman
    4. Early Doucet - solid player, underutilized in the system
    5. La'el Collins - lived up to the grade
    6. Patrick Peterson - lived up to the grade
    7. Anthony Johnson - wasted his opportunity
    8. Ryan Perrilloux - wasted his opportunity
    9. Reuben Randle - good player, underutilized in the system
    10. Terrance Toliver - wasted by the system
    11. Marcus Spears - late bloomer, eventually lived up to the grade
    12. Marquise Hill - ditto
    13. Craig Loston - never met the grade, not sure who to blame
    14. Arik Gilbert
    15. Elias Ricks
    16. Kevin Tolliver II - contributed, but didn't live up to the grade
    17. Ben Wilkerson - lived up to the grade
    18. Al Woods - contributed, didn't live up to the grade
    19. Terrace Marshall - contributing, but needs to do more
    20. Xavier Carter - overgraded, was never a football player
    21. John Emery, Jr. - hopefully, a late bloomer
    22. Michael Clayton - solid, but not a 5-star contributor
    23. Jarvis Landry - lived up to the grade
    24. Malachi Dupre - late bloomer, contributed, but not to the level of the grade
    25. Jacoby Stevens - wasted early, could still make the grade
     
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  8. shane0911

    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    @mctiger Is this your list or is this from the source?
     
  9. islstl

    islstl Playoff committee is a group of great football men Staff Member

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    From the look of it that looks like 247's list based only on their power rating.

    Good writeup.

    All the offensive stars wasted.

    I remember us being so excited about the X-Man.

    He was going to return 19 kicks for touchdowns. Yeah.
     
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    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    Didn't he end up in jail or in trouble with the law for something, some disturbance if I remember correctly
     

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