“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
Lou Holtz - Football Coach
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." - Thomas Jefferson
"Bring back the rotary phone so we don't have to press 1 for English."
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“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
Lou Holtz - Football Coach
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." - Thomas Jefferson
"Bring back the rotary phone so we don't have to press 1 for English."
www.casadice.com
you just have to get the right local guys. lacedarius dunn (baylor superstar), storm warren (lsu starting pf), kendrick washington (houston starting pf), dwayne lathan (we know his backstory, indiana state's second-leading scorer), elijah millsap (we know his backstory, uab's leading scorer and rebounder).
that's a starting 5 right there just off the top of my head and all within an hour's drive of ruston along the i-20 corridor. that's not even talking about expanding your recruiting zone into cenla, south louisiana, east texas, south arkansas and west mississippi.
there are really good players out there. the trick is identifying them early, and then staying on them to both make sure they get eligible and attract them to ruston. is it easy? no. if it was, we'd have been doing it all this time. but it's not impossible.
the bold, the beautiful, theprofessor
If there are local guys that can play and we have a chance to get, I hope we go for them. HOWEVER, I get tired of this argument. We should go after the best players we can possibly get no matter if they are in Athens, Louisiana or Athens, Greece. Just get the talent in and coach them up. I don't care where a player is from if he is good and can get us a WAC championship.
Everything you say is true, but how is a staff supposed to know who the star players are as soon as they get into town and have the relationship to bring them in within a year or two? They brought in guys they already knew and thought they could get here. Now that some time has passed there are some local young players on the radar.