re: LSU's 2026 Class - Not That Great

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Someone else who doesn’t understand how averages work and how having more recruits brings it down.

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It’s cool if you have the opinion that you would trade. You’d just be relinquishing the same number of 5 stars and 8 less 4 stars.

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I said I wouldn't trade.

These are no longer the days when you are capped to 25 recruits a year, so the rankings don't mean what they use to. It comes down to overall roster, and when you're at 56 recruits, that means the majority of your team is going to be guys who are there for their first year.

Now, with it being Kiffin's first year also that's not the hugest deal. However, it's no where near the ideal situation and what we know of Kiffin is that he's basically going to do this year after year because he lacks the ability to develop players.

Meanwhile, Alabama and other teams are lower in the rankings because we did not need 56 recruits. We retained all but 1 or 2 of the DeBoer recruits, so we kept the important parts of our roster.

I wouldn't mind us picking up a bunch of lower ranked 3 stars since we can put 105 on scholarships, which would lower our average rankings(not just more players, lower rated players bring it down). But that's only to fill in the positions that were former walk-ons. That's not what LSU is doing.

So yeah, no way in the world would I trade.

Besides, I'm pretty much over overpaid players at this point to be honest. Their production doesn't seem to match what they are making, and that's across college football with only a few exceptions.

Tried. Kelly would never have flown to Knoxville to meet with a player visiting another school to seal the deal.

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I agree with all of this. However it wasn’t an LSU fan that started this shitty thread talking about the ratings. So get at him and not everyone else for calling out a shitty thread lol. But that’s cool. I wouldn’t trade either so we’re good. You put a lot of words down all based on assumptions with zero facts. It’s hard to have any kind of logical discussion with that non sense lol.

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LSU fans have started plenty of them yourselves, so I don't see much difference.

In time people will understand what I'm talking about. The entire ranking models for these things are going to have to change. It's no longer about recruiting, it's about roster.

When I was young, recruiting meant everything because that was going to be your guy for the next 3-5 years. You had to develop him, and then later he would play. Losing a few scholarships was a huge deal because it created a large gap in your roster.

And that's what our current models and the way we look at things are done now as well. But it doesn't really apply anymore because you can recruit an entire team every year if you want.

But where is the development? Does this really mean the way in the future is to bring in your entire team every year? I don't think so. I think your best best is still to get guys out of high school and develop them, assuming you can develop them. Which also requires you to keep them and to find guys looking for development, rather than a paycheck.

At the end of Saban's career we mostly got a bunch of guys who looked more for a paycheck than development. Which is why he retired. We had the top classes and all that shite still, but all anyone cared about was the paycheck, not getting better. And the lack of development showed on the field as well. Just weren't elite anymore.

Just don't really see recruiting and all this stuff the way I use to after the past few years. Especially with what Indiana just did.

John Somers keep lying to yourself if it makes you feel better. LSU now has the number 1 all around class and when Seaton signs it will go higher.

This thread delivers.

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You have 56 recruits and your average is below 90.

I wouldn't trade.

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You got DeBoer.

We got Kiffin.

I wouldn't trade.

So all these pages and still going, and John somers simply pointed out in the op that LSU has no class. Wow.

Texas still close

We land seaton and I'll print the shirts

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You should probably be more worried about your own

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We're only three spots behind LSU going by average recruit ranking. And we didn't have to steal 40 million from hospital foundations to get there.

But don't worry, you finally cracked the top ten

#WINNING

But I am curious how you're going to fit 30 or so scout team rejects onto the SAM TRAM. Somebody call the Fire Marshall!