Breaking: MSU Close to Pulling Off Block Buster Off Season Trade*

[ShotgunDawg]

In an unheard trade, MSU appears to be on the verge of completing its' off season hot stove by pulling off a massive 5 Team trade:

Traded:

Prospect Jarrian Jones - FSU
Prospect Fabian Lovett - FSU
Veteran Stewart Reese - Florida

Received:

KJ Costello - Stanford
Scott Lashely - Alabama
Tyrell Shavers for 2 years - Alabama

Based on recruiting rankings, MSU gave up 266 of recruiting rankings points in return for 284 recruiting rankings points.

In my mind, Reese & Lashely are a wash.
Costello is the best single player in the trade
Shavers fills the single biggest need in the trade.

What we gave up was really the potential of Jones & Lovett. That's it.

Welcome to the era of the transfer portal!

Did we win the trade?

[HoopsDawg]

Lovett hurts. Overall, we upgraded.

I wish we had 2 more quality DB's.

[Todd4State]

Considering that Jones is a ***** and Lovett can't do anything without his Dad holding his hand- just based on that yes.

Reese has really slow feet. Trading him for Lashley is probably even.

Traded the girls to FSU for two potential first round talents at two of our biggest positions of need on offense- advantage MSU.

I do have to wonder about our defense. It's going to be like 2017 where it comes down to how big of an impact the JUCO guys make. I'd like to see this lineup.

DE- Kobe Jones
NT- Pickering- I think he would have at worst split time with Lovett if not eventually beat him out.
DE- Spencer

Edge/OLB- Tre Lawson
MLB- Errol
Edge/OLB- Jordan Davis

CB- Tyler Williams
CB- Emerson
FS- Marcus Murphy- makes more sense to put him here than DOG with Jones gone. I think he is one of our best cover guys at the traditional safety position. And he's fast and can cover ground.
DOG/Flex- Tyrus Wheat- dude is a Ashley Cooper clone
DOG/Flex- Fred Peters

Ideally I'd like to add another good CB and move Williams to safety but that's probably a pipe dream.

[Johnson85]

In an unheard trade, MSU appears to be on the verge of completing its' off season hot stove by pulling off a massive 5 Team trade:

Traded:

Prospect Jarrian Jones - FSU
Prospect Fabian Lovett - FSU
Veteran Stewart Reese - Florida

Received:

KJ Costello - Stanford
Scott Lashely - Alabama
Tyrell Shavers for 2 years - Alabama

Based on recruiting rankings, MSU gave up 266 of recruiting rankings points in return for 284 recruiting rankings points.

In my mind, Reese & Lashely are a wash.
Costello is the best single player in the trade
Shavers fills the single biggest need in the trade.

What we gave up was really the potential of Jones & Lovett. That's it.

Welcome to the era of the transfer portal!

Did we win the trade?

Reese > Lashley until proven otherwise.

But one year of Costello is probably worth one year of Lovett and Jones, so Shavers is just gravy past that if you're just comparing this year. Down the line it may change if Lovett and or Jones turn into something and if Shavers turns out to be mediocre, but I think if you had asked if we would make that trade the day after the Pirate was hired, most people would have said yes. Really going to depend on how Shavers turns out though, because it is tough giving up six years of defense between two players in exchange for 3 years of offense between two players. Especially since Lovett will probably be productive even if his work ethic isn't the greatest based on his RS freshman numbers.

[Ifyouonlyknew]

Lovett hurts. Overall, we upgraded.

I wish we had 2 more quality DB's.

Same way I see it. We're still looking at DB.

[ShotgunDawg]

Something else to consider is that we didn't give up future trade capital.

We can do this every year.

[Todd4State]

Same way I see it. We're still looking at DB.

Good! Hopefully we can find two. I was watching Kyle Cass's video last night and I liked how physical he was. He and Caleb Ducking could be big time JUCO steals.

[Todd4State]

Something else to consider is that we didn't give up future trade capital.

We can do this every year.

We also added Reed Buys over Brevyn Jones which is a win. We added Brandon Ruiz at kicker as well and that should help our KO situation.

[Political Hack]

Free agent market makes annual recruiting rankings pretty pointless... or more pointless than they already were.

[Todd4State]

Free agent market makes annual recruiting rankings pretty pointless... or more pointless than they already were.

Did the recruiting experts ever find Mississippi on the map?**

[Todd4State]

Does LSU have any defensive backs that don't want to be there anymore? Asking for a friend.

[Political Hack]

Did the recruiting experts ever find Mississippi on the map?**

No. Chris Jones was a 2 star entering his senior season.

[K9 Avenger]

Lovett made 19 tackles in 13 games....how do we replace that kind of production?***

[Madisonmd]

Wheat has WAY outgrown DB!!

[Jack Lambert]

Free agent market makes annual recruiting rankings pretty pointless... or more pointless than they already were.

they should come out with the final rankings Sep 3rd each year.

[Jarius]

they should come out with the final rankings Sep 3rd each year.

We would have a top 15 class with the people we added. The 2019 and 2018 classes would drop though.

[ShotgunDawg]

Free agent market makes annual recruiting rankings pretty pointless... or more pointless than they already were.

Agree. We should be heavy participants in this every year.

Make sure we end the Spring with 80 guys on scholly & save 5 spots to cherry pick blue blood 2nd teamers

[Commercecomet24]

We gonna be really good if this Leach guy gets off his butt and starts recruiting and getting us some players*******

[ShotgunDawg]

We gonna be really good if this Leach guy gets off his butt and starts recruiting and getting us some players*******

Nah, remember Leach can't croot

[Commercecomet24]

Nah, remember Leach can't croot

Yeah he sucks, don't care about crootin****