Cajuns rolling on football recruiting trail in June

[CajunJack55]

Somehow that's not slowing stAte, App State, and Troy. Maybe it's more about us than the SBC.

Alabama has two P5 , and two G5 teams. North Carolina has four P5 , and three G5 teams. It's onus to get better players ethically. Hud made a huge hiring error. Hud has either missed on players, or misused players. Same for many coaches he's run off. It's not like he's got the worst budget for assistants in the SBC. I hope he rights the ship.

https://www.underdogdynasty.com/recr...orgia-state-g5

"Andrews, a three-star prospect ranked as the second best guard in Alabama, chose Troy over a bevy of offers. Among his 17 offers are Georgia Tech, Illinois, and Memphis."

[Just1More]

Hopefully Coach Will Hall can get things going, and Coach Mike Lucas seemed to be a good fit. It'll be fun to watch a season with low expectations...at least that's how I'm approaching this season.

I've been looking at this season the same way. I'm hoping we've got the right coaches in place. And with the fan expectation bar (including mine) set pretty low... we might just get a fun surprise here and there. The program is in bad need of a solid season.

[Ragincajun07]

How's the recruiting looking overall?

[cajun_lannister]

How's the recruiting looking overall?

in between Meh and ____ing awful

[Ragincajun07]

in between Meh and ____ing awful

😂 I shouldn't have asked

[Geaux]

https://www.cougcenter.com/2017/6/24...sfers-to-wazzu

Looks like we lost another one. I've been saying this for 3 years now. Something is going on in that locker room.

I also disagree with recruiting kids outside the southern region. I can't blame the kid for going back closer to home.

[ManAboutTown]

I mean damn, we extended an offer when no one wanted him and he cuts bait in 3 months.. Sounds pretty disloyal.

Seriously, this story doesn't add up. All those other schools "pulled" offers, we give him a shot LB, and he leaves? Gotta be more to it.

[RaginScotsman]

I mean damn, we extended an offer when no one wanted him and he cuts bait in 3 months.. Sounds pretty disloyal.

Seriously, this story doesn't add up. All those other schools "pulled" offers, we give him a shot LB, and he leaves? Gotta be more to it.

That's what I was thinking. Something's not right.

[ZoomZoom]

Oh, here's another nugget....

Driving out of New Orleans Friday...channel surfing...I find the ESPN FM station out of New Orleans. Also known as "the flagship of the Nicholls State Colonels".

Boom! Automatic recruiting tool.

https://www.cougcenter.com/2017/6/24...sfers-to-wazzu

Looks like we lost another one. I've been saying this for 3 years now. Something is going on in that locker room.

I also disagree with recruiting kids outside the southern region. I can't blame the kid for going back closer to home.

Well, throw in the video incident in the fall and our own "Ocean's 13" crew a few weeks back, we have issues. Right or wrong, both those events come with a stink factor. And with that comes players who don't want to associate with it which divides the team, and recruiters who use it against us. I'm afraid the shark has been jumped with this coaching staff, painful slide coming. May not be directly their fault, but it's their recruits hurting the program. They can do all the goodwill in the community they can, counts zero on the recruiting trail.

[Geaux]

How's the recruiting looking overall?

Our recruiting has been sub par. We are lucky to keep 25% of a class through 3 years. I understand there will be some attrition, but HUD should be able to keep at least 40% of his signees through 4 years and have most of those guys contributing by their junior year. Most people say judge a recruiting class 2-3 years down the road. Well, here you go. Of the 2014 and 2015 classes we have less than 30% are starters. See for your self .

2014 Class (2 starters )

http://louisianalafayette.247sports....otball/Commits

2015 Class (5 starters)

http://louisianalafayette.247sports....otball/Commits

We were coming off of consecutive bowl victories and now it looks like we did not capitalize. From players not making it to campus, to players quitting the team. HUD has tried to fix his mistakes with JUCO and transfers (Anthony Jennings project) .....and we have witnessed those results over the last two years. Seems like our staff are not doing a thorough job in evaluations.