re: Perusing the board during the draft, what is the LSU obsession with an undrafted LBer?

If you want to know the roots of this ugliness , check out what I wrote contemporaneously about his recruitment when he was in HS in January of 2016 LINK:

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Posted on 1/1/16 at 11:54 am

Here is how this unfolded, imho.:

Moses is all in for LSU. Plays with Miles kids at U High on LSU campus. Uncle is a LSU coach. Dad Ed is Tiger fan, member of LSU message boards, and feeds off the attention. All in with LSU, to the point of intentionally trolling Bama boards for effect. Except, meanwhile, as time passes...

Moses is loving him some Nick Saban. LSU fans react poorly to this news having seen this before. Stage Dad totally melted down and said some rather hilariously narcissistic things completely unaware of how arrogant and pretentious he sounded. Bama fans posing as LSU fans egged the situation on further. LSU fans basically told him to grow up. Mom joins in, threatens to take her baby elsewhere. LSU bottom feeders,completely butt-hurt, crawl out from under rock and up the ante by hurling more insults. Parents appear to be looking for way to justify Bama flirtation and use this as the excuse--LSU fans made us do it. LSU fans don't deserve our unique greatness. Much eye-rolling ensues.

Mother literally threatens to take kid anywhere but LSU and then contradicts herself and says it is son's decision. LSU fans, tired of drama, say well...bye. This REALLY makes parents mad and more set on Alabama. They are completely sure their son is THE indispensable player of his generation as his social media continually makes clear. Meanwhile substantial portion of LSU fan base assumes full grovel position and express belief that kid's parent's ego should be coddled and fed daily with further begging. Other half of LSU fan base actually wants the kid to be somebody else's headache. Bama fans enjoy perceived LSU misfortune and dig knife in whenever possible, unaware of drama that may be headed their way.

The lesson here of course is for PARENTS to have the maturity to stay off social media, and have their kid stay off social media and that way the kid and the family won't be in the middle of a CIRCUS that causes everybody familiar with the situation to cringe from embarrassment. Nobody truly begrudges a kid his right to go where he wants to go. Pick LSU, Pick Bama, Pick Georgia, go to USC whatever. It's a can't lose proposition. But just be respectful, humble and of quality character so that people RESPECT you moving forward. Unless you have the cure for cancer, just Shut up, pick a school and get on with your life. Because we have all seen this same drama play out a thousand times. And more often that not, the kid's on the field skills are eclipsed by the circus attached to him.

This whole thing has the class, elegance and grace of a monkey fricking a football.

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