He’s the only guy that has some folks scratching their heads in this cycle. Texas is swinging for the fences across the board and then they’re on an OKG like Livingstone. He’s hopefully not jagger level.
My view of this weekend is that we’ll see something similar to last weekend. A few commits that will go public on Sunday-Tuesday.
Both weekends have been set up in order to create an avalanche of momentum into the dead period. If the gamble pays off, I assume Texas will have 16-20 recruits by the end of July, and Texas will be trending towards a top 5 finish if Seven Loss Steve can stay home and Steve Sarkwinsagain shows up with 10+ wins.
You took one poster’s fantasy of a future regarding LSU and decided to educate the board with platitudes about LSU’s desires and behaviors to win. You haven’t been around here long, at least in this incarnation, so maybe it would help to read and lurk for a bit.
I say that because we all fucking know everything you wrote and you’re becoming a bandwidth drain while you also fail to pause and consider what other people are actually saying about the current state of affairs.
I’ll be a little more specific and if it doesn’t help you, it’s at least illustrative to others who aren’t imbeciles. $250-$750k in the bag game was annually competitive. LSU was rarely on the high side of that. Bama, Georgia, Clemson, OSU, and occasional interlopers like Auburn could usually play to the higher side. Then the 2022 cycle happened. ATM went 4-5x high side of that. Hence the aftermath from all parties and angles, much to this board’s entertainment. Meanwhile, NIL unfolded and people with plans started going to work. The landscape today for a roster when playing poker at the big boy table is trending towards 8 figures. The ATM shit from the 2022 cycle is now what gets programs into the arena for a normal top 10 recruiting and portal cycle.
Now if you think LSU is able to make that work, you do you. To everyone else, that isn’t what’s happening. What I said is happening is happening. They’re little better off than when the bag game was being played. So are others that I already mentioned. I asked a friend inside the inner circle at Bama if they could match $4-5M per cycle in recruiting against the market. They gave a long pause and then simply said “there’s no fucking way.” And then, time passes, and all Nick Saban does is beg and plead with authorities and the media about NIL. Tough luck, little man.
Of course getting guys into the NFL matters. Of course conferences matter. Of course brand and tradition matter. Of course coaching brand and history matters. That’s why Bama isn’t in the toilet. That’s also why Oregon isn’t in danger of signing a top 3 class. But things are shifting, bit by little bit, against Bama, LSU and Clemson, among others. I think Bama fractures this season the way FSU suddenly did in early 2000’s but for more complicated reasons with Bama.