Louisiana Class of 2015 (Rivals top 250, Scout top 300, 247Sports top 247, ESPN top 300, Composite)

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  1. LSUDad

    LSUDad Veteran Member

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    For years Ark would dip down and pickup a few kids every year.
     
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  2. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    So would Oklahoma and Nebraska. They had a lot of small, rural non-football high schools and have always had to go far to find the studs. Maybe that has changed.
     
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  3. MLUTiger

    MLUTiger Secular Humanist

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    1) Superior Coaching
    2) Superior Training Programs
    3) Most talented kids play defense

    That's how we beat every South LA team that ever crossed into our backyard in high school. We had guys from La Tech and NLU drop by after the season to work out with our coaches to prep for the combine. Now they have specialized trainers for this employed by sports agents, but used to be we had the best weight room in North LA including the universities. Even the JV kids were all benching 200+ and squatting better than 350+.
     
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  4. asignupe99

    asignupe99 Founding Member

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    Outside of Shreveport I strongly disagree with this too. WAY more Saints fans up there than fans of anyone else...Cowgirls included...
     
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  5. asignupe99

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    Well, it is. It just comes in spurts. Bastrop's glory years were 05-08. We saw kids going to Southern Miss, Arkansas, Miss St., TCU, and most importantly LSU (Ken Aubrey, Josh Downs, Rueben...would've been DLo). A TON more kids went to smaller schools like Ouachita Baptist, Arkansas St, SLU, etc. Bastrop was not very good this year but still put 5 kids in college for football. Same thing is happening at the other schools. There is some D-1 talent...about as much per capita as anywhere else but it's coming from the football factories. So it's happening. Just on a smaller scale since we are talking less kids and fewer schools.
     
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  6. shane0911

    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    Frank Alexander anyone? There was another kid prior to him that Bob has scooped up from the NOLA area of all places.
     
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  7. islstl

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

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    Alexander was probably the biggest miss in the Les Miles era in terms of evaluating his talent level and potential (LA kids).
     
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  8. shane0911

    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    Rufus Alexander (don't think they are related) Nick Harris (may have been a Saban miss) there have always been 1 or 2 from the boot that do well on the OU squad.
     
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  9. geauxtigs

    geauxtigs Tigers Forever

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    And don't forget Chris Brown, the RB from ASH in Alexandria who went to OU the year after his team mate, Nick Harris. Both had pretty nice careers up there. I know LSU recruited Nick Harris pretty hard, but don't remember them pursuing Brown that much. He was a damn good back and I hated to see LSU miss out on him.
     
    geauxtigs, Feb 12, 2014
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  10. cajdav1

    cajdav1 Soldiers are real hero's

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    Saban gave up on Harris very early, Chris Brown I don't remember hardly any details.
     
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