Quote Originally Posted by BB30 View Post
It is a whole lot easier for Florida and vandy to pull that off when they can just about offer full rides. A vandy degree is worth a pretty penny as is. For us to land a back end 1st rounder it is going to have to be a kid that loves state and comes from a family where money is 0 issue. I don't expect us to start landing those guys. We need to be landing more of the 10-15th round type of talent and get them on campus.
I completely agree with you.

Notice I didn't put LSU in that group with Vandy & Florida.

Kids turn down LSU for about the same amount of money they are turning us down for. Where LSU is beating us is, they are somehow getting kids to turn down $150K-200K as JRs to come back for their SR year.

While it would be great to get comp & 2nd rounders on campus on like Florida & Vandy, it could prove just as valuable keep guys like Gridley, Lowe, Humphries, etc from leaving when they sign for less than 250K. LSU has beaten us in that regard & I think it's because they have less JC kids & thus are more attached to the school.