Recruiting Updates 22-12-15...

[CajunVic]

Waite, Waite, Waite . . . That should earn him at least 3 stars . . . its a clear and bright night tonight . . . our recruits with no stars should be up and shopping tonight . . .

[HelmutVII]

No one's talking about the 5 guys ranked as 3 stars. It's the 10 with zero rank. Is it the end all, be all? No. Are there outliers? Of course. And people keep bringing up Kamryn Waites. Well, to my knowledge, he hasn't proved anything yet. But it proves the point. 2/3 of our commits are complete projects. People can put their head in the sand and sunshine pump if they wish, but the truth is staring back at us. Our recruiting has taken a nose dive. It is what it is.

The problem is the kids ranked 3 stars or greater would probably be gone to the portal after about two years. The kids not ranked would need some work and probably stay. So what do you do, take a chance on the three star kids that will be gone or the zero star kids that need some work but probably stay. Sounds like we are between a rock and a hard place to me.

[RedTails]

Fwiw- Waites is starting a RG in Florida’s bowl game in place of Torrence who is sitting it out

for some reason I still get a lot of Florida Gators ____ in my Twitter feed and saw their depth chart pop up in last night

You gotta click the ellipsis on the Tweet and click "not interested in this tweet."

Had to do that for a little bit after Billy pillaged.

[ZoomZoom]

The problem is the kids ranked 3 stars or greater would probably be gone to the portal after about two years. The kids not ranked would need some work and probably stay. So what do you do, take a chance on the three star kids that will be gone or the zero star kids that need some work but probably stay. Sounds like we are between a rock and a hard place to me.

Take the players you can win with now. Otherwise, it’s a constant rebuilding, bailing for NIL and starting over. But 6-6 again next year would be Bustle 2.0.

You are the company you keep.

[moorecajun]

The problem is the kids ranked 3 stars or greater would probably be gone to the portal after about two years. The kids not ranked would need some work and probably stay. So what do you do, take a chance on the three star kids that will be gone or the zero star kids that need some work but probably stay. Sounds like we are between a rock and a hard place to me.

This is such a good point! CMD and his staff are recruiting players that want to be Cajuns and can play D1 football, or they project to that level (IMO). This is nothing new for UL, we have quite a few playersthat were either 0-2 star recruits, or even walk-ons that had very successful careers here.

The star parade will never go away. I hope our ability to find players like Robert Hunt never goes away!

[HelmutVII]

This is such a good point! CMD and his staff are recruiting players that want to be Cajuns and can play D1 football, or they project to that level (IMO). This is nothing new for UL, we have quite a few playersthat were either 0-2 star recruits, or even walk-ons that had very successful careers here.

The star parade will never go away. I hope our ability to find players like Robert Hunt never goes away!

Correct but there was no portal or NIL when Robert Hunt signed on. I think he would have been gone his senior year as things are now. The portal and NIL is a totaly different environment now. I don't think very many coaches and departments know how to handle this just yet. The portal and NIL has a lot of unintended consequences and intended unintended consequences. I suspect it was done intentionally to hurt programs like ours so that the line between the "Haves" and "Have Nots" is permanent and uncrossable. I also fear that the last year of Billy Napier was our football apex.

[JamesTheJeweler]

The problem is the kids ranked 3 stars or greater would probably be gone to the portal after about two years. The kids not ranked would need some work and probably stay. So what do you do, take a chance on the three star kids that will be gone or the zero star kids that need some work but probably stay. Sounds like we are between a rock and a hard place to me.

LoL! Not every 3 star is gonna leave. Not every unranked player that ends up a star is gonna stay. You recruit the best players you can get and let the chips fall where they may. You don't ditch recruiting the best players to take all unranked projects because, "maybe". If we could be getting more higher ranked players, we would be. But we're not. Let the conjecture fly as it may.

[Turbine]

The problem is the kids ranked 3 stars or greater would probably be gone to the portal after about two years. The kids not ranked would need some work and probably stay. So what do you do, take a chance on the three star kids that will be gone or the zero star kids that need some work but probably stay. Sounds like we are between a rock and a hard place to me.

It's a delima.

Coach them up and by the time they are "up" you still only get them for one year.

Advantage of going with the "ups" over the "ready mades" ... You have a better chance of asking the coached UPs for donations later in life.

[ManAboutTown]

Didn't someone say that Waites was back in the portal?

[CajunVic]

Not sure of that, but that he needs to shop for stars tonight . . .

[billbeck451]

just be glad that we aren't like Texas AM they have 25 in the portal

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nca...713d36f177e5cc

[CajunVic]

One beauty of being 6 6 in the Sunbelt is that we don’t have 25 that could believe the portal could help . .