Cajuns showing interest in Josh Brister

[Gueydanmayor]

---Mr Mayor please correct me if I am wron g--but didn't he commit/sign with Tennessee??

Committed to Texas A&M, then La.A&M@Baton Rouge, and finally signed with Tennessee, and ultimately ended up at at Pearl River Community College. He appears to be vanishing still as we speak. I don't know what his status is now.

Kid had extreme problems in the classroom, despite getting immense help and extra chances from his teachers. The school administration bent over backwards to help the kid, but he was lazy and flunked a lot of his courses. He ended up at Crowley HS and somehow (?) made his grades there. Hell of a running back, but lacked the discipline, pride and the will to work hard on and off the field. Wasted talent, IMO.

[CajunT]

Now you're getting it Sherlock. And that's exactly why not every parent of a potential recruit is encouraged, or even informed with the knowledge that the best thing to do is to go to the damn combine. Because they aren't turning anyone away at the combine because they're making money. So you pay your dough & run your forty, shuttle, verticle jump, & broad jump. When the coaches see that. It gives them a starting point to see who to invite to their camps besides Mr. America or Bo Jackson. Because there's gonna be one Jedavian Clowney. Then everyone has to work to fight for the leftovers. The only thing is there are way more leftovers for the FBS schools than there are leftovers for the kids who don't get picked.

How do you think a Jahri Evans, Marcus Colston, Terron Armstead, Khiry Robinson, Traveris Cadet, or Chris Ivory could end up in the places they did? And that's just a few from the Saints the past several years. There has to be collateral damage or there is no exclusivity. The fact that these sites will eventually draw the line some where or be completely saturated, means that they have to have a way to discourage the "nare do wells" from entering the golden gates. How do we do that? Through ignorance. But ignorance leads to laziness & apathy. I didn't know my son was going to blow up over the past two years. But he should have been given the same chance to get in the door anyone else had. There were those who knew the combination to the lock at the gate & didn't say ____. And they know who they are. And I'm mad as hell at them & don't give a ____ right now what they think. Right BJ? Now you can accuse me of throwing you under the bus & you'd be absolutely f...ing right.

Kyle, look in the mirror bubba! It starts with your failure to get him to camps, but its much easier to blame others for your poor decisions and stupidity. You made the decision to hire NSCA to promote your kid for you instead of getting in a vehicle and driving him to camps. Of the kids UL has commitments from, only a few of them attended a NIKE CAMP or NUC COMBINE. And those that attended, were invited. I don't have anything to do with those camps or who they invite. But hey, once you get something in your head you have it all figured out! Best of luck to Josh, he does deserve better, from you and his coach!

[Bandwagon King]

Kyle, look in the mirror bubba! It starts with your failure to get him to camps, but its much easier to blame others for your poor decisions and stupidity. You made the decision to hire NSCA to promote your kid for you instead of getting in a vehicle and driving him to camps. Of the kids UL has commitments from, only a few of them attended a NIKE CAMP or NUC COMBINE. And those that attended, were invited. I don't have anything to do with those camps or who they invite. But hey, once you get something in your head you have it all figured out! Best of luck to Josh, he does deserve better, from you and his coach!

The start of that stupidity was depending on YOU my man. I asked YOU what I needed to do two years ago & i'm doing it. The problem was your perception based on him going to a class 1-A high school. I kept telling you you needed to open your mind up. I kept telling you that if he continued to do work like he was working he was gonna blow up. Every time you showed me a guy UL signed & I could see how Josh was bigger & had better structure.

You think I want to be on here having this little tiff? You're wrong. But you say what you want. I've spent enough money on his recruiting process & sending him to a myriad of camps across the state to pay for his first year of tuition at Stanford. Has he gotten some great coaching & met some outstanding coaches? Absolutely. But his chances of getting to an FBS program because he didn't attend one of those combines was crippled beyond what I can calculate. And if you know anything about the system you know what I'm saying is the absolute truth. No matter what you say, you know I'm right. You may not have realized the importance before now. But you sure as hell do now, thanks to my son's lost opportunities which we will never even know about. How many more Noah Marks are ther out there BJ? Who is going to give those guys a well deserved opportunity?

UL couldn't even hold a Spring football game because they didn't have enough depth on the offensive line to play one & no one seems to be bothered about that. If they lose the SBC this season, it won't be because Broadway sucked, or we didn't have top flight recieving corps. It certainly won't be because of one of the best group of Running backs in the nation. It will be because we were to beat up or beat down at the LOS. Noah Marks alone could have been that difference maker for that program if it doesn't happen for that team this season. Noah never had a chance because he believed in a system which was set up to lock him out. I personally saw Les Miles step right over him to talk to a couple of Rival's wonder boys & offer them right in front of my face. I even wrote about it last year when I thought UL would offer him. I wonder if he would have been offerd had LSU made any overtones? I am fighting to avoid that for my son & any other parent & child from a small school, or big school around the Lafayette area from now on for that matter. That's why I'm on here sounding like a fool. I don't care because it does matter.

Edit: Your perception of 1-A high school football is certainly not unique. That's the problem. I went to the Nicholls camp myself. And I can tell you now. I saw whole squads of players from East Felliciano, Jesuit, Suphur High, and Evangel. East Felliciano looked just as good as Jesuit, Sulphur & Evangel. Maybe better. Just because a guy comes from a 1-a or 2-a program doesn't matter that much. Are the odds of seeing more college ready players better at a big school game? Yes they are. But there are plenty of college ready players on the 1-a & 2-a level. Is the talent always as refined? Most likely not. But that's what coaching is for.

[Bandwagon King]

Kyle, I know where Noah Marks will be playing college football at this summer.

Noah Marks Talks Ragin' Cajuns


Westminster Christian HS OL Noah Marks (6'5,340) had several options available to play football at the next level after completing his senior year, but made the decision to attend and walk-on at his favorite University. Go inside the Cajun Redzone for the rest of the story!

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http://hslouisiana.scout.com/story/1...n-cajuns?s=392

I heard he was taking a scholly to Nicholls, or Northwestern. Congratulations to UL. They stole one hell of a football player. They'd be best advised not to try take advantage of that type of situation too often. Here's another one for Duggie. This kid shouldn't have even been at UL. He should have been getting recruited by Tennessee, Arkansas, & Alabama. And I'll guarantee without ever laying an eye on this kid at a UL practice. If he stays at UL & doesn't get hurt, he'll not only start his last two years, he'll be an all conference lineman for the Cajuns.

[Bandwagon King]

Kyle...I don't know if you realize this but we have recruits that commit to UL...that do not have scout profiles. There are at least a handful each year that our staffs finds, offers, and gets them to commit...and they do not exist according to the major recruiting sites. CajunT usually has to add them himself. I find it hard to believe that our staff would ignore your son just because he isn't on a major recruiting site. Our staff is already at such a huge disadvantage when it comes to recruits on the major recruiting websites because of the disparaging status of the Sun Belt Conference...I think more than most programs...our coaches actually go out and recruit. Or maybe...and I don't know if you have covered this...they have in their minds better recruits at the same position or don't feel your sons position is that much of a need at the moment. Blaming the major recruiting sites would be just if this were LSU you were talking about. But this isn't LSU. Our staff cannot afford to ignore the rankings and go out searching for diamonds in the rough.

I alomost agree with everything you say. Except he's at the bottom of the UL food chain now. Here's the issue straight up. At the same time he's popping up on a lot of other radars in the FBS, he's dropped off the charts at UL. They were acting excited until about a month ago. Now all of a sudden he's invisible. That's becasue they're chasing everybody around the country who has a rival's pedigree. Or they're chasing someone else's kid that's in the position mine is. Every year at the end, these schools will sign a "late bloomer" or ten depending on their ability to sign the wonder boys that aren't in jail & have finally figured out how to find the building to take their ACT. Every year those kids will almost inevitably come from outside of the local area. UL is not unique in what they are doing. Tulane does it. USM does it. North Texas does it. ASU does it. UL will take a guy like the one from Acadiana a few years ago, the Xenno fellow, or Noah Marks & offer him a prefered walk on status. They're used to that guy either taking their offer or it's off to McNeese. I see them possibly trying that with Josh. And I am saying up front publicly we aren't going that route.

We have other options already, and we'll take them. But they aren't going to be the usual I want to wait & hope for UL options. We're getting some love from universities which would turn your stomach. Schools not named ULM. We're gonna do push to get the same offer with them UL gives their last few guys every year. If that doesn't work, a degree from one of the smaller schools would be wonderful. I may even send him to JUCO to get another year under his belt with a higher level of competition just to please the big boys. Either way it beats the hell out of pulling slips, running tongs, & doping pipe. And unfortunately it does have a huge amount to do with your Rival's rating number. Anyone who doesn't believe that doesn't believe getting a loan has anything to do with your FICO score.

[CharlieK]

Nm

[Clutch0364]

As a film junky when it comes to UL recruiting, I went ahead and watched the film on BWK's son and Kyle he is a good player but sorry to inform you, the 2 tackles that have committed to UL in the last few days are better. I hope it works out for your boy but if he doesn't get an offer here, it has nothing to do with the national camps or a scout/rivals profile.

[Bandwagon King]

As a film junky when it comes to UL recruiting, I went ahead and watched the film on BWK's son and Kyle he is a good player but sorry to inform you, the 2 tackles that have committed to UL in the last few days are better. I hope it works out for your boy but if he doesn't get an offer here, it has nothing to do with the national camps or a scout/rivals profile.

Do you mind telling us who they were & where they're from? I'd like to research them myself. If UL got Noah Marks for nothing, then they are obviously in an enviable position as a university. There aren't many schools getting that calliber of player to walk on. I'm not going to disagree that they got better players to commit. But I will contend that not being part of the national scouting comine hurts any potential recruits chances of being looked at seriously by FBS schools. Otherwise, why are all the players being recruited by the top FBS schools always at those camps?

[cajunhawk]

I alomost agree with everything you say. Except he's at the bottom of the UL food chain now. Here's the issue straight up. At the same time he's popping up on a lot of other radars in the FBS, he's dropped off the charts at UL. They were acting excited until about a month ago. Now all of a sudden he's invisible. That's becasue they're chasing everybody around the country who has a rival's pedigree. Or they're chasing someone else's kid that's in the position mine is. Every year at the end, these schools will sign a "late bloomer" or ten depending on their ability to sign the wonder boys that aren't in jail & have finally figured out how to find the building to take their ACT. Every year those kids will almost inevitably come from outside of the local area. UL is not unique in what they are doing. Tulane does it. USM does it. North Texas does it. ASU does it. UL will take a guy like the one from Acadiana a few years ago, the Xenno fellow, or Noah Marks & offer him a prefered walk on status. They're used to that guy either taking their offer or it's off to McNeese. I see them possibly trying that with Josh. And I am saying up front publicly we aren't going that route.

We have other options already, and we'll take them. But they aren't going to be the usual I want to wait & hope for UL options. We're getting some love from universities which would turn your stomach. Schools not named ULM. We're gonna do push to get the same offer with them UL gives their last few guys every year. If that doesn't work, a degree from one of the smaller schools would be wonderful. I may even send him to JUCO to get another year under his belt with a higher level of competition just to please the big boys. Either way it beats the hell out of pulling slips, running tongs, & doping pipe. And unfortunately it does have a huge amount to do with your Rival's rating number. Anyone who doesn't believe that doesn't believe getting a loan has anything to do with your FICO score.

I hope everything works out for you and your son. Hell I hope he comes to UL so I can buy you that beer.

[Clutch0364]

Do you mind telling us who they were & where they're from? I'd like to research them myself. If UL got Noah Marks for nothing, then they are obviously in an enviable position as a university. There aren't many schools getting that calliber of player to walk on. I'm not going to disagree that they got better players to commit. But I will contend that not being part of the national scouting comine hurts any potential recruits chances of being looked at seriously by FBS schools. Otherwise, why are all the players being recruited by the top FBS schools always at those camps?

Ken Marks from Beaumont and Marcus Keys from Port Allen. Both kids have outstanding feet and leg drive at the point of attack.

Noah marks in my opinion was not as good as the kids we signed last year. Great kid and I'm glad he is a Cajun but there are a lot of kidsI'd like to see as Cajuns. Sometimes the numbers don't work and other times we get a better athlete, that's just how recruiting works.

A lot of the kids Hud has signed never went to these big national camps so to say that you have to go to them to get noticed is just not true. In some cases is to much put into rankings and camps, possibly but not in all cases. There is a reason the teams who are in the top 25 year in and year out are typically the teams who are in the top 25 recruiting rankings.