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I don't like the idea for expansion. I see a ton of empty sats in the future. We already don't fill Tiger Stadium except for one, maybe two games a year.

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People were drunk and passed out in the parking lot. :lol: :geauxtigers:

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However, "Speedy trial" may apply. If his atty's move for speedy trial, the prosecution has to put up or shut up. Not sure what the rules are in La, though

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we have the speedy trial in LA also but as a defense atty why we you speed up your client's trial if you feel like it's a loser you would just put him in jail faster

thanks

since louis did't play last year the scout guys are waiting to see him play before raising him up

Will Lyles showed up again Wednesday night. It has been well documented that LSU paid $6,000 to Complete Scouting Services, a recruiting service run by Will Lyles. LSU paid for the "JUCO per state package" for the states of Kansas and California. This package was listed on Complete Scouting's website for $3,000. Purchasing two states is where the $6,000 figure comes from.

On Wednesday evening, ESPN's Kelly Naqi released a story that detailed the videos and materials that LSU received for that payment. The story claims that many of the videos that LSU received were old or that highlighted players that LSU may not have had any interest in. The story also points out that many of the videos were of poor quality. The headline to the story read, "Video Bought By LSU is Old, Low Quality."

Well, the national media took this story and ran with it. In fact, ESPN's Pat Forde took the story and sent it out via Twitter with the following note: "Willie Lyles sold video to LSU with no recruiting value." Well, that's not really what Naqi's story says, but that did not seem to matter to Forde. It's shameful that Forde will get away with twisting words like that, but he will. Bloggers and local media outlets took Forde's message and blasted it all over the place. Within an hour, it was a given that LSU paid Lyles and received nothing worthwhile in return. I'd venture to say that less than half of the people that re-tweeted Forde's headline did so prior to even reading the story....if they read it at all. And I'd say that 10% of them even care about any of the facts surrounding the story. After all, there is nothing like a controversy to generate web traffic.
I figured I'd at least offer some counter points that are based on facts and some pretty reasonable assumptions:
1) As mentioned, LSU purchased the "JUCO per state" package for Kansas and California. It just so happened that LSU offered and ultimately signed 4-star quarterback prospect Zach Mettenberger from Butler Community College in Kansas. LSU also briefly recruited a receiver from Mettenberger's team, Marcus Kennard, who ultimately signed with Texas Tech. Included in what LSU received, and what they were really after, was video from Butler that showed Mettenberger and Kennard. As for California, LSU heavily recruited a wide receiver from East Los Angeles College named Anthony Denham who ultimately signed with Utah. So when LSU pays for and receives video of prospects they actively recruited and in one case, signed, how does that constitute "no recruiting value?". The answer is that Forde was wrong to say that because he either did not understand the situation or did not want to.

2) In purchasing the "JUCO per state" packages from Complete Scouting, LSU purchased all material that Lyles had from the states of Kansas and California. Since LSU was after film of the aforementioned players, is it really incriminating that they are not familar with all of the material that Lyles sent? It's what they paid for! This is not hard.

3) Lastly, the assertion that the junior college film was of "low quality" is not really newsworthy. I have been following recruiting for quite some time, and I have yet to see any JUCO film that is worth a damn. It's not like these junior colleges have HD cameras set up from several vantage points on the field. It is what it is. To act as if the poor film quality is a revelation and to include in the headline is a stretch to say the least.

I'm not naive. I realize that Will Lyles and Complete Scouting are not the typical scouting service. But the $6,000 payment from LSU to Lyles is not going to get them into any trouble. ESPN went looking for a story. And when they did not find anything, they wrote the story anyway.

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-if Lance goes I'd count Steve Smith from the Giants (UFA) as a better replacement/upgrade at age 26. He might go cheaper than normal if he starts the year on the PUP.

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Blues i could see that if lance goes but my question is if bush goes because bush has such affect on our offense with the ability to be put on the field and create a mismatch something i don't think lance or your smith has. i just think that if we loses bush then we need to get a player that can bring that kind of versitility to the team. i think my smith is that type of player but i agree the cap hit would be way to high

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so we're going to move him to running back. wtf do you even mean by this?

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wow you think do you really think of bush as a running back? Because he is rarely used as a running back in payton's system. He is moved around to whatever position on the field that payton needs him to create a mismatch whether it's at runnning back, wide out or whatever. That is what bushes value has been and one of the reasons the saints offenses have been special. And the reason i posed the question to the board if we lost bush should we make a run at smith because one thing he has always been good at is creating mismatches.

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Only if we lose lance.

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really because i would see steve more in the bush role with payton's system

well if you had the chance to redesign Lsu's unis what would you do?

no i think they are still with adidas along with tennessee