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RollingPresidential

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  1. Guess my point is proven then. Though I lived across the lake from the LSU campus and went to high school at ULab and didn't know BR was majority black til after I had left to go to UT.
  2. Baton Rouge is a majority black city (53.4% black per 2020 census) but you wouldn't know that sticking to the area around the LSU campus. The town is very segregated. The football players and other athletes interact a lot with girls from Southern U (which is also in BR). I'd bet the black population at LSU is probably similar to UT though, at least % wise (bear in mind that UT is twice the size of LSU, and Austin like like 4x the size of BR). I do not care for Baton Rouge whatsoever, having lived there for five years and gone to high school on the LSU campus, but the black football players are pretty damn comfy there. I also do not think Austin wins a "diversity" argument against Baton Rouge. Austin is 6.9% black. That all being said, I highly doubt that is determinative of him going there at all. It's like the guy asking Bobby Burton on the IT Livestream if the A&M journalism school thing would affect A&M's ability to recruit black players.
  3. I guess. Anecdotal but I've lived on the East Coast for 12 years now and most people I deal with know UT and couldn't tell you where A&M is.
  4. I will never understand why "What if Mississippi State was weirder but had more money" is considered a sleeping giant, but you'll never see me complain when they get made fun of for wasting their money.
  5. So how're we feeling if we miss on Simmons but land McKinley, Black, Wingo, and Mack
  6. I feel like y'all are going way too far into Nahlin here. Gerry hasn't moved, and he's not the stubborn catty bitch that Nahlin can sometimes be. If the LSU guys were more confident, then they'd all be pouring in from the whole industry because the LSU guys would be telling others. That said, if @Wulaw Horn is who I think he is then he probably knows more than me.
  7. I clicked on the link (neg away) because they tweeted that Liucci was gonna be on there, and Liucci couldn't figure out how to put his camera right side up, so it was going well. Liucci also said that the Texas and A&M would "split" Colin Simmons and Kobe Black when I was listening.
  8. Hill wasn't a straight flip though, right? He decommitted and waited a few weeks.
  9. One of the many internet things that is burned into my brain for the rest of time is Ryan Brauninger posting some bullshit about Malik Jefferson possibly flipping before signing day because he said something like "good for them" w/r/t the hiring of John Chavis, and some Aggie idiot responding "flip a sip is my favorite game." Otaro Alaka is the only straight flip they've had in like, 10 years, right?
  10. Think he was the lowest rated of that crew, too. I remember when he committed and Higdon was saying how much of a steal he was. Ah, memories.
  11. Wilbon was a solid rotation player for years and graduated I think.
  12. This is the guy that Herman called a bitch for decommitting from him at Houston, yeah?
  13. This. I was in school from '08-'12 and didn't care about them until my senior year when they just wouldn't shut the fuck up.
  14. I'm all for rehabilitation and second chances but lol that that's who they sent to SEC Media Days.
  15. Calm down, buddy, I didn't care at all about any of it. Just another of the Strong-era shitstorms.
  16. and then RT'ing someone asking him to transfer at halftime of a 50-7 beatdown? No, we will not.
  17. Seemed low if like 4 football players made half that (combined) by themselves.
  18. Yeah I think Bill C said it was the biggest statistical outlier of the year.
  19. There is a thread on IT trashing their own rankings? Edit: they do indeed, at least Nahlin is posting about "how On3 operates."
  20. I am vividly remembering being in my high school IB physics class at U-High (known on this board as University Lab, the high school that is on the LSU campus), getting a bad grade on a test, and saying something like "If I don't fix my grades in this class I might end up at LSU." My classmates, 80% of which were matriculating to LSU, were very offended. I'm now a lawyer and my undergrad degree means jack shit, so bully for me I guess. I think what you've said is reasonable, I just don't think it really tips things in our favor as much as we say it does or has overwhelmed other stuff in the past. For an ex-NFLer, as most of these guys think they will be, what does their undergrad degree even mean?
  21. Not saying I don't believe you, but where'd he say this?
  22. I'm sure they were a factor. I'm not saying it doesn't matter at all, I'm saying that we overrate it. I just severely doubt that a 5* kid from Acadiana that could go anywhere is gonna make his choice based on the computer science department. This is more true in basketball (or at least was when I went there). 7(or 8, not sure about John Ehret) of the On3 top 10 in Louisiana go to public schools. A lot of the private schools in small town Louisiana were originally established as "religious" schools after Brown v. Board. They have some black athletes, but it ends up with situations like the Clinton, Louisiana public high school being all black despite that town being about 50/50 black/white. I really really hope we land this kid. Just not holding my breath because he says he wants to be in computer science.
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