Cajuns showing interest in Josh Brister

[duggie85]

This is getting old Boom. Time to move on and put McNeese, Tulane, and ULM in your rearview mirror. Please???

Hear, hear!!

[BeauCajun]

This is getting old Boom. Time to move on and put McNeese, Tulane, and ULM in your rearview mirror. Please???

You forgot one.

[Boomer]

Seriously.....lost him.....and then you say we didn't offer him? Guess you think our coaches are pretty poor for not offering?

This is getting old Boom. Time to move on and put McNeese, Tulane, and ULM in your rearview mirror. Please???

----Obviously YOU don't know what I am referring to-----I was hoping that we could possibly get him in track or as a football walk on---The kid is a great athlete but too small to play college ball at about 255 but he is about 6'3"---So your comment about our coaches and my thinking their judgement is poor is way off base----How about next time not rushing to judgement and just ask!!!! Why isn't LTUR worthy of my rear view----When I find out facts about these schools and whether they are good or bad I will report them as I hope others on here would do---They are our enemies and if it is good for them it is bad for us and likewise in the opposite position

[angeleast]

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.

[Boomer]

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.

---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!!!

[Alum78]

Kyle...your son will be a center in college.

[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.