Lester Earl

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re: As portal season ends, what role does LA HS football play in future rosters?

Posted by Lester Earl on 1/17/26 at 11:04 am to Everyday Is Saturday

It will start to matter again when lane starts to win. They will come and want to stay. Ideally you need them for 2 seasons to evaluate, and historically state kids have been prone to stick around longer when not seeing playing time.

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re: Lane/Corey's reason for no portal CB?

Posted by Lester Earl on 1/17/26 at 11:02 am to dstone12

Cooley historically has been best as a nickel back

Woodland has nickel traits too but holds his own outside.

The kid from southern played CB last year.

You would have liked a boundary corner but the position should be at least average with the chance to be better if one of the young guys take a step.

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re: Is Dottery the new Star position?

Posted by Lester Earl on 1/17/26 at 10:24 am to LSUButt

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We got no pass rush all season and I didn’t see a single snap where Perkins lined up at DE and just create havoc. Instead he would cover slot receivers.

Butt is right on it. If he couldn’t make Perkins shine in the position, then we probably need to stop glorifying it. Perkins was in coverage more than he was wreaking havoc in the box, and especially with the lack of use rushing the passer. Perkins was essentially a 3rd safety

re: So far, we got 8 OL in the portal. Lost a few.

Posted by Lester Earl on 1/17/26 at 10:18 am to sunnydaze

Chester is a nothing but the other guys all have starting SEC upside. Specifically Curne-Adams-Echols. Ory Williams and Calloway are good developmental tackles. Mubenga will be much better than he was here.

LSU went from Adams who was a serviceable SEC LT to grabbing Baylor’s backup LT, as it stands now. Or playing someone else there who naturally is not a LT.
It’s not a huge deal, as I said the scheme & coaching being in unison will help a ton.

re: This is starting to look like one of Saban’s stacked Bama rosters on paper

Posted by Lester Earl on 1/17/26 at 10:09 am to cbree88

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You don’t think this LSU team is looking to have a lot of draft picks in the 2027 draft?

Who will be a 1st rd pick in 27 & 28?

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re: So far, we got 8 OL in the portal. Lost a few.

Posted by Lester Earl on 1/17/26 at 10:06 am to cbree88

It’s funny what people will say when they don’t really know anything about ball.

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re: I can’t lie the depth of this team is incredible on paper

Posted by Lester Earl on 1/17/26 at 10:00 am to Cd104

You said this last year too huh

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re: This is starting to look like one of Saban’s stacked Bama rosters on paper

Posted by Lester Earl on 1/17/26 at 9:59 am to sdmlsu1

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The days of Saban rosters are gone.

The days of Saban rosters only existed with Saban

re: So far, we got 8 OL in the portal. Lost a few.

Posted by Lester Earl on 1/17/26 at 9:55 am to Wolfcola

You’ll understand a year from now

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re: So far, we got 8 OL in the portal. Lost a few.

Posted by Lester Earl on 1/17/26 at 9:43 am to Jabontik

Better talent left
Better scheme coming in

re: This is starting to look like one of Saban’s stacked Bama rosters on paper

Posted by Lester Earl on 1/17/26 at 9:35 am to cbree88

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Um, because of the amount of talent stacked on the roster?

. A Saban roster at Alabama had 3-5 first round picks on it annually. And another slew of top 100 picks. Your comparison is just flat out ignorant and disrespectful to what he did.

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re: Is Dottery the new Star position?

Posted by Lester Earl on 1/17/26 at 8:45 am to LSU1SLU

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Not true at all under Blake baker defense. You don’t know ball

Who played star last year, and what did his assignment entail?

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re: Is Dottery the new Star position?

Posted by Lester Earl on 1/17/26 at 8:36 am to heatwave

the "star" gets too much attention here. there is nothing really unique about the position.

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re: Looking at the stickied roster thread, what is currently your biggest concern?

Posted by Lester Earl on 1/17/26 at 8:01 am to PenguinNinja

LT
Edge
LB
CB
TE

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re: Lane Kiffin has completely retooled this roster on paper

Posted by Lester Earl on 1/17/26 at 7:39 am to LuckyTiger57

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What Lane Kiffin and his staff have done with NIL and the portal is mind blowing.

They lost 40 players and added 40 players. This was always going to happen when a new coach moves over.

I look forward to next year when he can really cherry pick needs and upgrades.