80-90% of the juniors on any team should be in competition for a starting position.Quote:
Originally Posted by CRAWFISH61
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80-90% of the juniors on any team should be in competition for a starting position.Quote:
Originally Posted by CRAWFISH61
Boomer's fan criteria for evaluating our recruiting class isn't a bad one. In reality, there isn't a single person on this forum that doesn't use these same criteria. Some of those criteria are easier to access and assess by most and we all weight their validity differently. That "secondary sexual criteria" is simply a component of an evaluation of the anticipated maturing level of the specific individual based on a number of factors. This forum isn't going to have a healthy discussion on that component.
As for the "star system"... we've beat that horse to death. My personal belief is that this forum (including my own) positive opinion of the recruit star system will increase as UL gets more 3 and 4 star players. Our past opinions were both valid and hypocritical... as we've been defending our lackluster "number of stars". 95% of the subjective arguments we gave are still valid... but when we get on the other side of that fence... we're all going to be basking in the "starlight". Just wait and see...
But... have no fear... UL will have numerous 2 star recruits out shine their 3 and 4 star competition.
My biggest liking of the improved number of 3 and 4 star players is the implied improvement to our program more than the reality of it. It will provide our program more notoriety and respect right out of the box. It creates more buzz in the fandom and that is always a good thing. In the end... no matter what... recruiting more universally acclaimed "stars" is a benefit to our program.
Oh... and congratulations Landor!
Post is on the money---BTW did you notice that a certain 2 star CB out of NO got a lot of playing time this year while a 3 star guy from the greater Acadiana area was red shirted????
D'Shaie Landor readily admits that as a sophomore starter at Teurlings Catholic he had a lot to learn.
It's no different now that he's a redshirt freshman at UL, competing with Texan Brooks Haack to be the Ragin' Cajuns' backup quarterback behind starter Terrance Broadway.
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D’Shaie Landor readily admits that as a sophomore starter at Teurlings Catholic he had a lot to learn.
It’s no different now that he’s a redshirt freshman at UL, competing with Texan Brooks Haack to be the Ragin’ Cajuns’ backup quarterback behind starter Terrance Broadway.
“It was rough for me at first,” Landor said of starting as a 10th-grader. “But once I got the hang of things, and experience, it was just as smooth as going into practice.”
Having packed on about 28 pounds since his 2012 arrival at UL, Landor feels similarly now.
“I try to be ready,” he said after a strong preseason scrimmage Saturday in advance of the Cajuns’ Aug. 31 season-opener at Arkansas.
“I watch film with Terrance. Everything he does, I try to be alongside with him to make myself ready so that if he does go down I can come in and run the offense smoothly. So I think I’m pretty ready.”
That wasn’t the case, though, when last season Landor checked in with about 173 pounds on his 6-foot frame.
But he said he’s up to about 201 now, and prepared to take a pop.
A solid spring helped too.
Haack had a super spring game for the Cajuns earlier this year, but UL coaches so far have held off on naming a No. 2.
“That was really encouraging,” Landor said. “Honestly, during the spring, (we) were neck-and-neck. He did good things, I did good things.
“Coming out of spring, we knew it was still gonna be open competition going into fall. So we both kept our heads focused, and I knew what I had to do.”
One season spent observing had to help too.
“The game slowed down for me,” Landor said, “and I was able to learn the offense as well as I knew it at Teurlings.”
Landor was quite pleased with what UL’s offense did Saturday.
“We moved the ball around,” he said of Broadway, Haack and himself. “We took care of the ball; no turnovers. As quarterbacks, we made decisions. And we scored. So, overall, a good day for us.”
UL coach Mark Hudspeth said he’d have to watch scrimmage film, though, before deciding if Landor or Haack had separated himself in the backup battle.
“We’ll have to grade the film really tight, really closely,” he said.
“The main thing I’m looking for production. You know, somebody can look really good, can execute really strong. But did they move the chains? Did they make plays? What was their production, throwing and running? We’ll have to go back and study that a little bit.”
Hudspeth thought both contenders started slow, but said both “did some good things” as the day progressed.
Landor seemed to think so too.
“I can only speak for myself, and I know each day I try to go out there (and do) well,” he said. “I did well (Saturday). Hopefully Coach Hud and Coach (Jay) Johnson (UL’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach) saw that.”
A TIGHT RACE
Hudspeth wasn’t ready to name a No. 2 running back behind starter Alonzo Harris on Saturday, either.
But, as on previous occasions, he had high praise for a true freshman from Houma’s Vandebilt Catholic who led all Louisiana high school rushers last season.
“I know Elijah McGuire can still make some nice runs, nice plays,” Hudspeth said. “But I saw all the backs (Saturday) do either well in protection or well in the run game. So it’s just a tight race.”
Hudspeth said Montrel Carter, back from ACL surgery that cost him most of last season, had “some quality carries.”
McGuire, Carter, Torrey Pierce and Effrem Reed all are battling for depth-chart spots.
OFFENSE CLICKS
The Cajuns didn’t release stats from Saturday’s closed scrimmage, but Hudspeth did say UL’s offense “clicked.”
Broadway marched first-teamers up and down the field, and a team spokesman said the junior “looked like he was mid-season form.”
Broadway evidently was pleased too. “Finally got in a rhythm, perfect timing!” he tweeted.
Hudspeth initially said the scrimmage would be “scaled back”, and the Cajuns said most starters wouldn’t play.
Instead, a team spokesman said Hudspeth “changed direction and had the first unit play, but without contact.” Backups and other reserves went full-contact.
TIGHT-END TALK
UL’s top two tight ends, Ian Thompson and Jacob Maxwell, were held out Saturday. But Hudspeth said both should “be ready to go” next week: “We’re just making sure they’re 100 percent.”
With those two out, Hudspeth said true-freshman tight end Nick Byrne – whom the Cajuns still hope to redshirt – had a “big-time” end-zone catch.
Others not scrimmaging Saturday due to injuries included defensive linemen Justin Hamilton and Brandon McCray, but both also remain on track to play at Arkansas.
GOOD HANDS
Hudspeth seemed happy with his whole hands corps Saturday, and said “our two receivers” – first-year starting wideouts Jamal Robinson and James Butler – “have come on pretty good.”
Hudspeth also said Saturday that true-freshman receiver Devin Scott “is, to me, a guy we’ll end up playing this year.” The Cajuns previously had discussed redshirting Scott, a speedster from the New Orleans area.
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