Cajuns showing interest in Josh Brister

[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 !!

[CrazyCajun]

------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 !!

stop living in a damn vaccum, i doubt any of you except the kid and the coaches at UL know what happened or how it went down. guess what boom, if it makes you feel better...hud has stolen every one of our recruits from mcneese the last 4 years. hud doesnt give 2 squats about a kid running track. in fact, all things being equal you take the kid that doesnt want to spend his spring running track, you take the one that will be with your team all spring.

[Boomer]

stop living in a damn vaccum, i doubt any of you except the kid and the coaches at UL know what happened or how it went down. guess what boom, if it makes you feel better...hud has stolen every one of our recruits from mcneese the last 4 years. hud doesnt give 2 squats about a kid running track. in fact, all things being equal you take the kid that doesnt want to spend his spring running track, you take the one that will be with your team all spring.

----Again--my thought was something like a preferred walk on to see how he liked it, grew, and decided what direction to go in---probably track!!!