Cajuns showing interest in Josh Brister

[BeauCajun]

Eagles. Hell Freezes Over.

Excellent job, Desperado.

[MelRock]

BTW, I sing it in my head lots of times when I come on here. Carry on peoples.

That made me chuckle and I could not agree more.

[MelRock]

Excellent job, Desperado.

I do love the Eagles "Desperado" but for me the original Desperado was the Alice Cooper song. "I'm a picture of ugly stories I'm a killer and I'm a clown" one of the best lines from any song.

Sorry didn't mean to hijack the thread, but I could talk music all day.

[Boomer]

Melrock, there's a song in that last sentence. Music trivia 101. You should be able to get it. I know Boomer won't.

---If the track coaches didn't want him then the whole discussion is a mute point----If he didn't go after him--maybe he should check out past UL coaches successes!!

[Dad04]

BWK, my advice FWIW, have your son list the schools he likes regardless of order or caliber of program. And, when the first one offers a scholarship, jump on it and don't look back.

Our family went through college recruiting and things worked out well with four consecutive seasons played at the same school and ultimately, two degrees earned.

I might add he should take a peek at the academic portion of the equation. Does he have a specific degree program he is interested in? How do the schools interested in him stack up in his area of academic interest?

If football were out of the equation, for some reason (___ happens), of the schools on the "list" where would he want to attend college?

Go where they want you and you WILL know who that is. Don't try to fit a square peg in the round hole, where they don't want you.

Good luck and enjoy the ride!

[BeauCajun]

---If the track coaches didn't want him then the whole discussion is a mute point----If he didn't go after him--maybe he should check out past UL coaches successes!!

Huh??? Say what??? Mute??? !!1

[BeauCajun]

the Alice Cooper song. "I'm a picture of ugly stories I'm a killer and I'm a clown" one of the best lines from any song.

Ah, Alice. Then you remember Cold Ethyl?

Nothing wrong with a little thread drift. Turbines gonna take care of us. It'll be a long summer. Hot Summer too.

[Boomer]

Huh??? Say what??? Mute??? !!1

---Sorry Beau --Moot but maybe you could comment on past track performances and the success of local athletes---This guy I think was composite All-State in the shot!!

[MelRock]

Ah, Alice. Then you remember Cold Ethyl?

Big Cooper fan. I was lucky enough to meet him a few years back at a concert. We had VIP tickets and had dinner with the musicians before the concert and our table was right in front of the stage. Very outstanding family. The founding members of Chicago played, so did Jordan Sparks who I had no clue who she was before the concert. Very impressed with her performance, she sat with two young men that just had acoustic guitars.

[Bandwagon King]

JJ Watt went to Central Michigan and Wisconsin.

Thank you for the correction. It was Brooks Reed. I shall correct the error. Actually he became buddys with JJ through Brooks. They would go out to Arizona or USC with Brian Cushing to watch the two schools play each other if they were able to. That's the story I got anyway.

[Reality Check]

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.

Whoa, you might want to tap the brakes there my friend. Perhaps you are being blinded by a father's pride in this instance. You post some impressive stats that you say match up with any college age kid entering into the NFL draft and reference 4 star talent. I checked the various recruiting websites (24/7, Rivals and Scout) and don't see your son listed in any of their data bases. With stats like those that you posted, one would figure that the recruiting sites would have your son in their data bases.

I have never seen your son play and I am sure that he is a quality young man. All I am saying that we are sometimes too close to a situation and we lose all concepts of reality. UL's silence is maybe something that you need to think about.

[scotto_25]

1st post...Nice screen name. Was it made just for this post?