re: 2017 Arkansas Recruiting Thread---Football and Basketball

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man this LSU Dad guy is salty af.

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Coach Smith comments on LSU fan video

A humorous video recently posted on YouTube by “LSU DAD” labels Arkansas as poachers for coming into Louisiana and signing recruits to take back north.

The Razorbacks signed four players from The Boot last season with three more already committed to the 2017 class. The recruiting in Louisiana is spearheaded by wide receivers coach Michael Smith, a New Orleans native with vast knowledge of the state.

“I actually did see it today when our video guys brought it to me,” Smith said Thursday after practice. “I think that’s great for him to have that attention, and if he believes I’m poaching my own state then that’s what it is. I take it as a compliment. I do. They’re paying attention, that’s a good thing.”

LSU DAD jokingly suggests he helped Arkansas find recruits at New Orleans’ St. Augustine High School when he showed a Razorbacks fan where the school was located. Arkansas signed St. Augustine linebacker Giovanni LaFrance in the 2016 class.

“He doesn’t know that’s where my dad went to school,” Smith said. “I know them very well. They were also in the Catholic league, the league I played in.”

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