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re: Hard not to like Coach O
Posted on 1/10/20 at 8:18 pm to ElectricWizard0
Posted on 1/10/20 at 8:18 pm to ElectricWizard0
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O did not fail to recruit Etienne, however he did fail to land him. Les didn’t recruit Etienne, but when O took over he went after him. pretty sure LSU even offered before Clemson did.
Clemson offered first. We were both late to the dance. Clemson has a commit early, C. Richardson who had a faulty transcript so we had to back off. ETN was a fallback. LSU missed on a different RB (Cam Akers maybe?).
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Posted on 1/10/20 at 8:29 pm to ClemTig
Yes, it was Cam Akers. He was coming to LSU but we fired Les Miles and he started looking elsewhere and signed with FSU.
Posted on 1/10/20 at 8:52 pm to ClemTig
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Clemson offered first.
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Posted on 1/10/20 at 10:47 pm to ClemTig
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Clemson offered first.
Definitely not. LSU offered in December. Clemson offered right after y'all won the natty.
Not that it matters. LSU would have needed to offer much sooner to mend the hurt feelings and not on the same day we missed on Akers.
Posted on 1/10/20 at 11:12 pm to ClemTig
Here is the timeline of Etiennes recruitment.
Dec 27, 2016 - LSU offers
January 12, 2017 - Clemson offers
January 20, 2017 - Etienne officially visits Clemson
January 26, 2017 - Etienne commits to Clemson
January 27, 2017 - Etienne officially visits LSU
Notice: LSU offers first(Dec 27), but Clemson scheduled an official visit and subsequently got his commitment before LSU got him on campus.
There is a lot of woulda, coulda, shoulda in recruiting, but had LSU scheduled an official visit sooner, he may be at LSU. As O has stated, by the time of the LSU official visit, Etienne and his father had already made up their mind on Clemson. It's in the past now. I think it worked out in everyones favor. Would LSU have signed the young studs on the depth chart in Curry, TDP and Emory, had we had CEH and Etienne? Probably not but who really knows. I like where we are now and the future looks bright at the running back position.
Dec 27, 2016 - LSU offers
January 12, 2017 - Clemson offers
January 20, 2017 - Etienne officially visits Clemson
January 26, 2017 - Etienne commits to Clemson
January 27, 2017 - Etienne officially visits LSU
Notice: LSU offers first(Dec 27), but Clemson scheduled an official visit and subsequently got his commitment before LSU got him on campus.
There is a lot of woulda, coulda, shoulda in recruiting, but had LSU scheduled an official visit sooner, he may be at LSU. As O has stated, by the time of the LSU official visit, Etienne and his father had already made up their mind on Clemson. It's in the past now. I think it worked out in everyones favor. Would LSU have signed the young studs on the depth chart in Curry, TDP and Emory, had we had CEH and Etienne? Probably not but who really knows. I like where we are now and the future looks bright at the running back position.
Posted on 1/10/20 at 11:28 pm to ClemTig
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Clemson offered first. We were both late to the dance. Clemson has a commit early, C. Richardson who had a faulty transcript so we had to back off. ETN was a fallback. LSU missed on a different RB (Cam Akers maybe?).
The timeline is out there. Miles didn’t pay any attention to him. O offered a few weeks before Clemson did, but wasn’t pressing for a commitment to try and land Akers. All kinds of kids get offers, but they only matter if they are commitable offers and his wasn’t until Akers was gone. He didn’t like being the back up plan. By the time O started trying to recruit him harder, he was looking elsewhere. It happens.
It may be that he also didn’t like that LSU offered CEH and took his commitment well before Akers. As good as Etienne is, I wouldn’t swap them due to how well Clyde has fit in this offense.
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