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re: Who was the biggest recruiting miss in LSU history?
Posted on 1/5/26 at 4:09 pm to LafTiger
Posted on 1/5/26 at 4:09 pm to LafTiger
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Marshall Faulk.
Faulk wasn’t high on anyone’s radar. I think we pitched him DB and he was adamant about RB.
Can’t really put it into the big Miss column because we weren’t really trying that hard if I recall.
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Posted on 1/5/26 at 4:09 pm to 2003tigerfan
Ratphuc Hobley. Dude would have been dynamite here.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 4:32 pm to 2003tigerfan
I guess I'm thinking of big time recruits who could've flipped the script.
osing John Fourcade to OM in late 70s hurt. But we already had Woodley and Ensminger. Don't think we ever lost to OM w/ Fourcade.
Paul Ott Carruth hurt because we needed RBs until Dalton and Garry came along.
Ike Hilliard
Travis Etienne
Greg Robinson (OL) who went to Auburn
Cam Robinson
Landon Collins
Ed Reed
Warrick Dunn
osing John Fourcade to OM in late 70s hurt. But we already had Woodley and Ensminger. Don't think we ever lost to OM w/ Fourcade.
Paul Ott Carruth hurt because we needed RBs until Dalton and Garry came along.
Ike Hilliard
Travis Etienne
Greg Robinson (OL) who went to Auburn
Cam Robinson
Landon Collins
Ed Reed
Warrick Dunn
Posted on 1/5/26 at 4:36 pm to Chicken
quote:
Joe McKnight
That's probably it.
ETA: actually probably second behind Ratphuc Hobley
This post was edited on 1/5/26 at 4:39 pm
Posted on 1/5/26 at 4:39 pm to 2003tigerfan
Marshall Faulk and Ed Reed
Curly said Marshall would play CB. Refused to consider him as a RB
Ed wanted to get out of South La. I am pretty sure that how it went down.
Curly said Marshall would play CB. Refused to consider him as a RB
Ed wanted to get out of South La. I am pretty sure that how it went down.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 4:42 pm to Islandboy777
quote:
Ed Reed
That’s gotta be up there lol
Posted on 1/5/26 at 4:43 pm to Meauxjeaux
quote:
Faulk wasn’t high on anyone’s radar. I think we pitched him DB and he was adamant about RB.
Can’t really put it into the big Miss column because we weren’t really trying that hard if I recall.
I’d still call that a miss. Maybe more an evaluation Miss but still
Posted on 1/5/26 at 4:49 pm to Burt Reynolds
quote:
Dak Prescott
this
or Darron Thomas, the Oregon QB from Houston that Les called an "athlete" during his recruitment and pissed the kid off.
He may not have been all world (though he did put up good numbers at Oregon), but I think he'd have been better to have during that Lee/ Jefferson era than who we did have.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 4:50 pm to michael corleone
quote:
Curly said Marshall would play CB. Refused to consider him as a RB
To be fair, and I'm anything but a fan of Curly, almost everyone did. In HS, he was a very good RB but an elite CB.
As an RB, he had over 1,800 yards and scored 32 touchdowns in his final two years, which is impressive but not necessarily a standout achievement. But as a DB, he had 11 interceptions, 6 returned for touchdowns, in his senior year, which is elite.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 4:53 pm to AlwysATgr
That’s a great list. I’d add Tommy Wilcox who went to Bama from Bonnabel. Fantastic safety and athlete.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 6:07 pm to molsusports
quote:
Warrick Dunn would be on the list
The winner IMO. He was a consistent, dyanamic play maker and as noted you can't fault his choice back in 1993.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 6:43 pm to Chicken
Joe McKnight?
Landon Collins
Joe McKnight, knew him. Had zero chance once his GF got a USC scholarship.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 6:53 pm to HC87
Warrick Dunn! and it is not even close when you look at his whole career and who he was and became as a person. And he was from a mile from campus.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 6:55 pm to 2003tigerfan
You newbies need to get on the way back machine: Marshall Faulk, Ike Hilliard, Warrick Dunn have to be considered.
It can be argued Terry Bradshaw but we threw it like eight times a game back then. He jokes about being to slow to get into LSU but a big reason is that our O was three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust.
It can be argued Terry Bradshaw but we threw it like eight times a game back then. He jokes about being to slow to get into LSU but a big reason is that our O was three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 6:58 pm to 2003tigerfan
I mean Johnny Manziel did want to come to lsu and Les wasnt interested. Les also told Daks he would pmay tight end.
Also that kid from New Orleans went to Oregon and was their starting qb, forgot name. Leslie turned him away too.
Leslie turned away a ton of good players.
Also that kid from New Orleans went to Oregon and was their starting qb, forgot name. Leslie turned him away too.
Leslie turned away a ton of good players.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 7:10 pm to 304tiger
Cam Robinson and his mom drove around West Monroe in brand new trucks with Tuscaloosa dealership tags on the front of them long before he graduated. So, probably didn’t have a shot
Posted on 1/5/26 at 7:12 pm to Islandboy777
quote:
Marshall Faulk
this is classic 20/20 hindsight, he went to SDSU, every one “missed”
Posted on 1/5/26 at 7:20 pm to Meauxjeaux
quote:
Faulk wasn’t high on anyone’s radar. I think we pitched him DB and he was adamant about RB.
Can’t really put it into the big Miss column because we weren’t really trying that hard if I recall.
How the hell is that not a miss? That's the definition of a miss.
Us losing out on a battle for a stud like Warrick Dunn isn't a miss. That's a tried and lost out to FSU.
A big recruiting miss is someone you didn't get because you mis-evaluated.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 7:49 pm to lagniappe09
quote:
Janzen Jackson
The story about waiting a day for his mom
and he has already signed w/ LK @ Tenn
From the mean streets of Welsh, LA
Went to jail for murder
His dad, Lance Guidry, was a defense analyst on BK's staff last year.
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