Cajuns showing interest in Josh Brister

[angeleast]

---Yes it is a very good measuring stick and I think that our stick is now longer than those schools---Very competitive but OH what strides we have made!!!

All ways better to have a bigger "stick"

[cajun4life]

I don't want a buch of overblown stats going out over the air waves. And I'll tell you guys now, we're getting love & in some cases plenty of love by more than one. But I'm not getting the kind of assurances where I was hoping, that won't cause me to have to reup my son in a certain camp some 50 miles to the east of here. That is very disappointing to me. I surely didn't even want him to have to deal with that again. But I saw where he was last year with the best crop of Juniors in the region. And I can tell you I'll put him & his work ethic up against anybody anywhere in this country. He is a man. A very fast very agile man for his size. These are the facts.

6'4 5/8" tall 5.09 fastest 40 time so far. ( probably faster right now) 52" extra long jacket
296 pounds 4.81 second shuttle run 14 extra wide shoe
3.0 GPA 24" vertical leap 38" w X 36" L pants
24 ACT 96" broad jump XX large shirt
last highest bench press was 290 pounds 1st of May ( likely 25 pounds higher now)
Turned 17 in March. He is a left handed left tackle who has played on a championship calliber team his final year of competition at every single level since CAYSI.

Compare those combine stats to the top tackles coming out of college & going into the NFL draft & tell me what you come up with. He's a stud & there is no doubt. I'm just glad the milk man left plenty of milk to feed him this whole time. He has 4 star size, talent, skill set, and ability. The question is how much does playing in a single A district where the coaches are so chicken $h!+ they won't do the right thing just show they can hold a grudge keep him from being recruited heavily by the home town major university. You guys know where I stand & I'll tell you now, if I got the right word from the right people in a timely manner, I would NOT be sending him to Baton Rouge for lineman camp. But I have a feeling the new OL coach there won't allow to happen what the last OL coach allowed to happen to that football team. So I got a feeling he doesn't come out of BR this time without a buttload of hickies on his neck. Sorry fellas. I'd love to say I'm all in. But my son is gonna play somewhere on a scholarship. That's the only assurance he has of getting to really compete for a starting position one day. I have no control over the thoughts of the powers that be at certain places. I only know my boy loves Mark Hudspeth & Jay Johnson.

I am not sure if you are hinting at the fact that LCA's coaches are hostile towards the Cajuns or the other way around. I can tell you that camps will be the only way he gets really looked at. Coming from a 1A high school really hurts his stock. I had Rich Rodriguez tell me to my face that had I played against better competition I would have a scholarship offer to a school like Florida or Tennessee. This was in the coaches office at VC when he was the OC at Tulane the year before they went undefeated. He left without offering. Well I take that back, I did have an offer, but failed to meet the admission standards. That was my only D1 offer and it was contigent on scoring a 28 on the ACT, sorry but I'm not that smart. Had preferred walk on status at Texas from John Mackavic and Mac Brown, couldn't afford to go. All the while then USL and La Tech both viewed me as a walk on due to the competition I faced.

6'3" 185lbs WR ran legit 4.5 in the 40. Ended the season with 65 receptions 965 yards receiving 9 receiving TD's and 2 punt return TD's, averaged almost 30 yards per return, on a team that ran the Wing T. They questioned the competition, my athleticism. I made All-State in baseball, football and track (All-American). Would have won state in the 400 meters in 2AA and 3AA but finished 2nd in 1A.

Recruiting is a dirty process and will leave a very sour taste in your mouth. I will say this, good luck to your son and the "best offer" is not always the "best offer" if you know what I mean. He needs to find the place that he feels most comfortable with living the next 5 years of his life there. He is from a small school and an OL they will red-shirt him. If it is the right fit, the name on the jersey doesn't matter.

If I had to do everything all over again I would not have stayed here. I live and die Cajun athletics and will always be a Ragin Cajun, but football wise I wasted my talent coming here when I was not a priority for the staff that was here at the time.

[Alum78]

All ways better to have a bigger "stick"

"always"

[Cajun90]

Boomer has a point. I like knowing how our opposition/enemies are doing in the battle of funds, renovations, etc. Gives me a good measuring stick to judge our progress.

Thus my rearview mirror comment. They aren't our opposition or enemies. Our coaches have moved on and so should we. We have bigger fish to fry....I'm tired of the CONSTANT comparison Boomer throws up to the other state schools. He can't move past his coaching days in the 60's.

p.s. Boomer apparently the track coaches didn't go after him either so my statement stands. Get over it.

[fanof71]

Good Luck BWK, great look'n young man. Enjoy the ride, cause regardless of where he goes the fun in the sport is at the high school level. 5 years ago when 71 was kicking butts at LT, every coach we spoke with always wanted to see game film. And as much as possible, both good and bad. I spoke with coaches in NC, SC, Tenn, and California and all of them said the same thing, camps are great for evaluation, but if u can't get to a camp, send his game film out. The better the team, the better the film, the better the evaluation. 71 was lucky, his team had 23 sr's and several that signed with various small colleges. The other tackle was offered by a small school in just its 3 year of football. He had more size than your son, but not nearly the speed. He was a 2AA all state in NC. Had the one offer after 2 years of all conf and all area. Those coaches saw his film, set up a time to meet with the player and his family and offered at that meeting.
The High SChool 71 played for had 1300 students, 9-12 grades. What classification is that in Louisiana?

[Boomer]

Thus my rearview mirror comment. They aren't our opposition or enemies. Our coaches have moved on and so should we. We have bigger fish to fry....I'm tired of the CONSTANT comparison Boomer throws up to the other state schools. He can't move past his coaching days in the 60's.

p.s. Boomer apparently the track coaches didn't go after him either so my statement stands. Get over it.

We have moved on??? are you saying we don't compete with Tulane and Tech for players?? Have you ever been in sales?? I guess not where you get the money to eat and live on your quota---You had better know what you are facing--- Look I don't know if you are on chat but take a look at our recruits and see what other schools that they are interested in going to!! If our track coaches didn't go after a state champion in I think 3 events they are crazy---But he signed in football with McNeese and will do both!!! Btw the "they aren't our opposition or enemies" is one of the dumbest things I have ever seen on this board!!

[Cajun90]

We have moved on??? are you saying we don't compete with Tulane and Tech for players?? Have you ever been in sales?? I guess not where you get the money to eat and live on your quota---You had better know what you are facing--- Look I don't know if you are on chat but take a look at our recruits and see what other schools that they are interested in going to!! If our track coaches didn't go after a state champion in I think 3 events they are crazy---But he signed in football with McNeese and will do both!!! Btw the "they aren't our opposition or enemies" is one of the dumbest things I have ever seen on this board!!

Let's don't go down this road. I've helped close over 100 million in sales in the past three years with 150K in air miles to get it done and "coach" wasn't holding my jock strap to help make it happen.

We compete with every school in the country every day for recruits but according to you it's 1969 and no one else exist other than La Tech, McNeese and Tulane. Give it a rest.

[Boomer]

Let's don't go down this road. I've helped close over 100 million in sales in the past three years with 150K in air miles to get it done and "coach" wasn't holding my jock strap to help make it happen.

We compete with every school in the country every day for recruits but according to you it's 1969 and no one else exist other than La Tech, McNeese and Tulane. Give it a rest.

---Well congrats on your sales record----but think about our major opposition in recruiting--LTUR, Tulane, Houston, S MISS, Memphis, Rice, S ALA, Tulsa, N TEX-----But then after they have gone through their list and not gotten whom they wanted, the biggies start on our commits--Nebraska, the Mississippis, TCU ------ McNeese gets the kids that transfer and can be instantly eligible ----- ---BTW what are you talking about with a jock and a coach--no comprende!!!

[Bandwagon King]

We have moved on??? are you saying we don't compete with Tulane and Tech for players?? Have you ever been in sales?? I guess not where you get the money to eat and live on your quota---You had better know what you are facing--- Look I don't know if you are on chat but take a look at our recruits and see what other schools that they are interested in going to!! If our track coaches didn't go after a state champion in I think 3 events they are crazy---But he signed in football with McNeese and will do both!!! Btw the "they aren't our opposition or enemies" is one of the dumbest things I have ever seen on this board!!

I have to agree with Boomer on this. Just my opinion, but I thought it was a mistake turning that young man down. He was a great dual sport athlete & the kind of kid that will do whatever he has to to make your football team & make it better. he would have been a hell of a special teams demond. And I know he has to be strong as a bull the way he threw the shot put. I knew he was good with the discuss, but to be that good with the javelin also? You just don't find that calliber of athlete on every tree, and I don't give rip whether he played at a 1-A school or not.

Just because some guy played at a big school with a bunch of thugs & gangsters & is probably two years older than the kid from a good private school only means you're subject to be looking at a butt load of trouble in a couple of years. And for what? Now if he can't qualify that's another thing. But guys like that, that used to get away from UL for whatever ignorance used to come back & kick the crap out of this program & embarrass this program state wide. When you let one like that go. You better make damn sure you don't lose one in the process who was of questionable character like a.... well... I could name a few. And they weren't that good when they were on the field. Most of that is behind us now also, Thank goodness.

[Hammer58]

But the young man was an outstanding football player & a track star. Didn't he win state in the shot put?

He may have been, Kyle. I'll take your word on that. And he may have been a kid we should have offered, I don't know. My point was simply that "lost" implies we offered and he rejected us while the truth is we never end offered and passed on the opportunity to have him on the team.

[Bandwagon King]

He may have been, Kyle. I'll take your word on that. And he may have been a kid we should have offered, I don't know. My point was simply that "lost" implies we offered and he rejected us while the truth is we never end offered and passed on the opportunity to have him on the team.

No doubt UL had the power to decide what they wanted. And with what they got in this class, he may have been too much of a good thing. But the young man is going to make McNeese one hell of a player as wellas one hell of a track performer. assuming he stays injury free. That's a fact. He would also have made a huge positive impact for the UL football team. That won't be a fact. I just happen to think when it comes down to choices & you have to decide the school a guy comes from, that the character of the man far exceeds the size of the program because I can tell you VC can't do anything about their size. But the quality of their program is outstanding as any other program full of tradition in this state regardless of size. Anyone who doesn't understand that is cheating themselves out of a huge amount of talent because they are either not confident in their own ability as a coach, or they are lazy one of the two. And that's another fact.

[Boomer]

He may have been, Kyle. I'll take your word on that. And he may have been a kid we should have offered, I don't know. My point was simply that "lost" implies we offered and he rejected us while the truth is we never end offered and passed on the opportunity to have him on the team.

------OH BOY---I didn't say that we should have offered him a scholly but that we might have given him the same deal as McNeese W/O the S-Ship---I know that he had great games against Carl Malone,s son and played very well against LCA-----I guess what is so disappointing for me is that his grand pa kept telling him to wait and he wanted UL very much !!