With the loss of Early Doucet to the NFL draft, LSU is looking dangerously thin in the All-American Player Name stakes this year, although recent commitments Cordian Hagans, Chancey Aghayere, and Rockey Duplessis, are all expected to contribute next season. Next year’s recruiting class looks to be a bumber crop, though, with Abrecus Martinez, Ky’Var Bolden, Darrington Sentimore, Shavodrick Beaver, and my personal favorite Barkevious Mingo, all on LSU’s radar. Geaux Tigers!
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Roll Tide, #1 recruiting class in the country!
But their coach is Nick Saban, #1 douchebag in college coaching. Plus, with monikers like these, how can LSU possibly be beat?
And that's not even mentioning Lucsious Pussy, or whatever his name is!
Ah, Mike, it seems that number 1 ranking might be an illusion. It also seems that Saban might be even more of a shit than previously known. See below:
If you wandered over to the various recruiting sites on signing day you probably noticed big banners proclaiming Alabama's return to power via the nation's top recruiting class. This is due in large part to the enormous number of recruits that put pen to letter of intent for Nick Saban: 32, a full seven more than the NCAA's yearly limit of 25. Only Miami managed to stretch the boundaries of the rule further, signing 33.
Both classes are top five but in are overrated by sheer quantity. Alabama's #1 class is actually #6 by star average; Miami's #4 class is 14th by that metric. Both contain large numbers of players with no chance to qualify this fall; it's all smoke and mirrors.
That's irritating, but Tim Gayle's piece on the massive 'Bama oversigning is disturbing. Gayle crunches the numbers and comes to these conclusions:
Four to six guys are not going to qualify.
Four more guys who are marginally useful can plausibly be given medical scholarships and removed from the team.
Six more scholarships need to be forcibly extracted from somewhere.
Around six guys who are playing for Alabama now or expect to be in the fall are going to be told to get bent by the time fall practice rolls around. But let's all complain about how nasty Rich Rodriguez is, why don't we?
Some might argue that no one's really hurt by the practice of oversigning, but this shocking assertion from Bruce Feldman's latest post($) argues otherwise?
One administrator I spoke with said schools also can make it so some player doesn't qualify if they don't need him to, which may sound surprising, but it probably shouldn't at this point.
Jesus. That's truly filthy. When this happens a kid who manages to get qualified is shuffled off to a JUCO or prep school because there's not enough room for him. The school who signed him to a letter of intent is screwing him out of a chance to play at an actual D-I school for purely selfish motives.
The NCAA really has to do something about this. Feldman makes a point that the new APR restrictions do impose a cost upon teams that cycle through players willy-nilly, but your APR isn't affected when a kid who signed a LOI with your team doesn't qualify.
BTW, I just renamed our dog Barkevious.
What a coincidence! I just renamed our cat Lucsious Pusey!
Florida State ranked 11th in the recruiting game, but couldn't compete in the name game. We did get one Nigel Bradham, who is from my old stomping grounds of Crawfordville, Fla., but could very well be English.
Andy's brother is named Nigel, but his college football eligibility is questionable.
College football recruiting is fun to watch, but you can certainly overhype the numbers. In Bama's case, it's true that the class is oversigned, but 2 are early grads enrolling this Spring and counting against 2007 limits. 1 or 2 others will attend on a Bryant scholarship, open to the children of former players and coaches of the Bear. A few will not qualify, that's true enough, but others in the class may "gray shirt," sit out as freshmen and join the team in '09.
I'll bet you bayou boys weren't so down on Nick Satan when he was your coach, leading LSU to a national championship. And let's not forget that he recruited many of the players you rode to this year's championship. (Jay, you know you're interested in all this!)
Zzzzzzzzz ...
As a Dolphins fan, I hereby declare that Saban can go fuck himself.
LSU and Dolphin fans, I'm a lonely Saban fan in this crowd!
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