I have always been an Oh No detractor. I know all the stuff about his ability to recruit and how successful Ole Miss was this year with his recruits. I am still an Oh No detractor. I did not and do not want him at LSU. One of his original picks as an assistant was stopped for DUI coming from an Ole Miss recruiting function in Oxford – gives you an idea of his feel for folks. Also, I will never forgive the man for helping USC with McKnight and discouraging the kid from going to LSU. Here in Memphis there are a lot of folks, many Ole Miss alumni and fans among them, who don’t care much for him. He never really made a dent in local recruiting. The kids he got from around here were mostly academic problems who no one else would sign. His most successful recruits at Ole Miss were these kids, some JUCOs and transfers. I do respect that he stayed with the kids with academic problems until they could play, but his local reputation is something of a joke.
Perhaps the biggest impact will be on Ole Miss, Miss State, Bama and aTm. Orangatan may be able to challenge them for the kids that LSU does not pursue hard, like Sentimore, Lacy, etc.
That would be alright. Oklahoma has scooped up a few in the recent past by the way. Now that we can consistently get about 4 or 5 from Texas each year and a few from other states we leave some pretty decent recruits on the table.
I don't see this impacting us in-state. He could make it harder for us to pull kids from NE Miss & Tennessee, but we don't recruit those areas that hard anyway.
I imagine this guy said this before he found out that LSU hired the DL coach from the Bears as our new DL coach.
I think Louisiana is just to far away. He will have a tough time recruiting at Tennessee if he spends much time recruit Louisiana at all. I'd be more worried if I was Georgia, Bama, USC.
