By Tinker Town:
How do you like a large number of people betting their hard earned money on the gambling tables in Las Vegas Nevada. And other people throwing large sums of money away into the gambling houses all across America. How do you like the politicians running Washington DC. Who are spending all of the taxpayers money at a foolish rate.
How did you like the live Barack Hussein Obama 2013 presidential inauguration speech. "Ode to big government." The grand show of the corruption of our American society. That keeps showing us a truly nausea picture of the American people, lost in what they call "fun entertainment and just a lot of normal behavior." Wow, it can get truly appalling. When I start thinking about the wasteful behavior of the American people in their every day living. I can become dumb founded in their hypocrisy. Just who are they kidding?
Is that what it's all about ladies and gentlemen. Making everything up as we go along. What about truth, and honor, and the children, the American way?
Words are all that I have to speak of them this way. There must truly be a living god. Because only god could forgive them, and keep loving them after such a show of bad self expression. Only someone who is very divine, and much greater then myself. Could love these people without treating them harshly. Just take a good look at them. Are they kidding me?
Who do you believe, George Carlin simple video about the club that
you are not in. Or Barack Hussein Obama wide open lying eyes, about his
2013 Inauguration speech? http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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The NFL draft will haunt LSU this year, as 10 underclassmen are leaving school early. What, do you think Les Miles is scared? Chris Low »Aschoff: Looking at SEC early departures »SEC blog »AP Photo/Butch Dill
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SEC Blog
Cal Sport Media via AP Images, Getty ImagesSam Montgomery and Barkevious Mingo, projected to be first-round picks, highlight LSU's group of juniors leaving early for the NFL draft.
That number swells to 11 if you count Tyrann Mathieu, but Mathieu didn’t play this past season for LSU after being dismissed and had no chance of returning in 2013.
To put LSU’s 10 early NFL draft entrants into perspective, the entire SEC had 11 in 2012.
Then again, the SEC saw that number climb to 33 this year.
And, yes, there were a number of head-scratchers. That's always the case.
Players leave early for all sorts of reasons. Most of the time, they’re simply ready to take their shot at the NFL. Sometimes, they land in the doghouse and really don’t have much choice. Others listen to the wrong people and get bad advice.
There’s a reason LSU has been one of the elite programs in college football the past few years. The Tigers have recruited and developed players about as well as anyone.
The sobering reality for everybody else in the SEC is that nobody has done it as well as Alabama, and the Tigers and Crimson Tide just happen to reside in the same division.
So it’s understandable that fans on all sides would see 10 underclassmen leaving early in one year and wonder if LSU was about to hit one of those embankments that all elite programs fear. The cyclical nature of college football, particularly in the SEC, is a fact of life.
The other obvious question: Is there something amiss in LSU’s program right now that’s driving players away? After all, we hear constantly how players love playing for Miles, but we don’t see a lot of those guys hanging around for another chance at that coveted crystal trophy.
Those guys do exist, although they’re getting rarer.
AJ McCarron and C.J. Mosley chose to stay at Alabama for another season. So did Jake Matthews at Texas A&M, Aaron Murray at Georgia and Jordan Matthews at Vanderbilt.
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Go back to that star-studded 2009 signing class by LSU that was ranked No. 1 in the country by ESPN. Six of the players leaving early were in that class -- defensive ends Sam Montgomery and Barkevious Mingo, defensive tackle Bennie Logan, linebacker Kevin Minter, offensive tackle Chris Faulk and running back Michael Ford.
All six of those players redshirted their first season, meaning this was their fourth year in the program.
Mingo and Montgomery are both projected as top-20 picks, while Minter and Logan both have a chance to slip into the latter part of the first round.
Ford probably saw the writing on the wall with the emergence of Jeremy Hill at running back this season, and Faulk had already missed most of this past season with an injury. He wasn’t willing to risk coming back to school and being injured again.
That 2009 signing class also included cornerback Morris Claiborne, defensive tackle Michael Brockers and receiver Rueben Randle, all of whom left early last year and were taken in the first two rounds. Claiborne and Brockers were both top-15 picks.
The Tigers’ 2010 signing class was ranked No. 8 nationally and included safety Eric Reid, cornerback Tharold Simon, running back Spencer Ware, not to mention Mathieu.
It was pretty much a given prior to this season that Reid was coming out. He’s rated as one of the top safeties in the draft. Simon has all the measurables and will probably help himself in workouts, while Ware had seen his role on LSU’s team reduced ever since his suspension in 2011 after reportedly testing positive for synthetic marijuana.
Even for a program that rakes in the talent the way LSU does, losing 10 players early in one year is bound to have an effect. The Tigers will be forced to depend on a lot of young players next season, and several others will have to step up their roles considerably.
Miles has built a strong enough foundation that LSU isn’t going to all of a sudden drop off the radar. But losing so many good players at once will make it that much more difficult to climb out from under Alabama’s growing shadow, and that’s not what anybody wants to hear on the Bayou.
Miles knows how the game works, though, and he also knows that it’s never a bad thing to be sending so many players to the NFL, or at least in the direction of the NFL. When you're recruiting in the waters that LSU does, the overriding question that just about every one of those recruits has is: How can you help me get to the NFL?
“I like the state of the program,” Miles told The Baton Rouge Advocate. “I like the fact that we send guys to the NFL early and recruit guys with the potential to go to the NFL early.”
Something says that cycle's not going to end any time soon at LSU and that the Tigers aren't going to lose their membership in college football's upper class.
- ESPN.com SEC blogger
- Joined ESPN.com in 2007
- Wrote for The (Nashville) Tennessean
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Yeah most don't look at urban Florida as being truly "Southern". Maybe on the compass, not in culture.
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SE Florida is a section of Long Island that broke loose and drifted south.
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SE Florida is a section of Long Island that broke loose and drifted south.
That's
one thing Great about the SEC they lose players and still can win
Championship. Not like ND that has players for 5 years and win
DOODLE........
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marioxxxxxxxx
MyBOY, how long have you had that extreme case of BUTTHURT ? ? I can
tell you it is not Healthy for you, and until you admit it to yourself,
your life will continue to be miserable ! BAMA has and will continue you
to Own yo Tigers, so the sooner you accept that FACT, the better off
you will be !
WAR BAMA'S DOMINATION
WAR BAMA'S DOMINATION
The person who has beat les miles the most is.... Les Miles!
Duh
Nice Bream
Man, that General Sherman surely was a good guy. What do you guys think?
Jeremiah was a bullfrog
I am a Dolphins fan, a Kings fan, and a USC Trojans fan.
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My condolences....would you like some help picking a winner next time?
Hey, you're a Dolphins fan too. You share 1/3 of the misery.
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Dandy Don's LSU Sports Report
Good morning, Tiger Fans. I hope all of you had a great weekend.
With the month of January quickly flying by, we are now 16 days from football’s National Signing Day (2/6), 25 days until the start of LSU's baseball season (2/15), 26 days until LSU's Junior Day recruiting event (2/16) and 52 days until the start of spring football practice (3/14). And on a bit of a personal note, I'm also counting the days until I'm able to start my tomato seeds in my greenhouse and break ground for my early planting of Irish potatoes. After a beautiful weekend like the one we just had, I'm staring to get a bad case of spring fever, even though our coldest winter weather has yet to come. But I digress. Now back to LSU sports...
It was nice hearing from so many of you this weekend about LSU picking up its 27th commitment this weekend in Kevin Spears (6'3", 190, Holy Cross). Many of you are concerned that Spears isn't even rated by the major recruiting services and have asked me what I think of that. Let me tell you as my father before used to say - the number of stars next to a players’ name isn't worth a hill of beans. What’s more important is how well a player fits a team’s needs, and a better measure of the player’s talent level is the number of schools that recruit him. As for fulfilling team needs, LSU clearly needed to sign a couple of tall wide receivers in this class, and at 6'3" Spears meets the mark. But height is not all he has going for him. What you have to realize is that Spears has only been playing football for two years, and this past season he had 65 receptions for 1,115 yards (17.1-yard average) and 11 touchdowns, and that’s against solid 4A competition.
He was also named to the 4A All-State team, the New Orleans All-Metro Team and the 10-4A All-District team. Because it was only his second year playing football, and last season he was just getting initiated to the game, Spears went relatively unnoticed until late this season. According to Holy Cross Assistant Coach Ryan Kamlade, whom I hear from often, Spears was receiving interest from Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, ULM, Minnesota, Indiana, Arkansas, Maryland, and SMU (Dallas), and had received offers from Mississippi State, San Diego State, Syracuse, Tulane, Utah, Henderson State, La Tech, Southern University, Western Kentucky, and ULL. Not bad for a prospect who didn't decide to pursue football until last year.
Speaking of top football prospects, today I have continued revealing my list of Top LA Prospects for the Class of 2014 by posting numbers 21-25. I'll continue revealing the names five-at-a-time until I reach the top-10, then I'll slow it down a bit. I was thinking of only ordering the top 50, and then listing another 80 or so prospects alphabetically, but I'm starting to thing that I may order numbers 51-60 as well. There are so many prospects out there who deserve special recognition that it's hard to place a limit.
21. Quentin Gibson (QB, 6'2", 175, Shaw)
22. Corey McBride (WR, 6'2", 180, Dutchtown)
23. Mattrell McGraw (S/CB, 6'0", 175, John Curtis)
24. Bailey Granier (LT, 6'6", 326, South LaFourche)
25. Ricky Gibson (S, 6'2", 185, Marksville)
Click here to view the entire list-in-progress, which now contains numbers 21-50.
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Glenn Guilbeau: In the long run, LSU might be better off without exiting underclassmen
LSU linebacker Kevin Minter is one of 10 LSU players set to leave school early for the NFL Draft. / AP
Glenn Guilbeau
Obviously, one can expect a player projected to go in the first two rounds to leave early.
That is the case of defensive ends Barkevious Mingo and Sam Montgomery, defensive tackle Bennie Logan, safety Eric Reid and middle linebacker Kevin Minter. But that does not make it hurt the team any less.
The reasons for the other five leaving for rounds beyond the second are debatable. LSU will miss offensive tackle Chris Faulk significantly. His healthy return would have meant the Tigers would have returned one of the more solid offensive lines in the SEC.
Had either tailback Spencer Ware or Michael Ford returned, LSU would have kept one of the nation’s deepest tailback units, though neither would have replaced starter Jeremy Hill.
Had cornerback Tharold Simon returned, he would have been a rare experienced voice in the secondary. Punter Jamie Keehn will be good, but he will not be as good as Brad Wing, who also left a year early.
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USA Today
Emmert instills change as NCAA passes new rules
Dan Wolken, USA TODAY Sports10:31p.m. EST January 20, 2013
Story Highlights
- The NCAA Division 1 Board of Directors passed a package of 25 rules reforms Saturday
- Most of them are simple deregulatory measures that may go unnoticed by the general public
- NCAA president Mark Emmert may have found a blueprint to reshape the organization
Much of Emmert's presidency, however, has been viewed as an era of big talk and relatively little action when it comes to dealing with key issues like agents, rules enforcement and athlete compensation beyond a scholarship. In the one major instance when Emmert used the power of his office broadly, spearheading historic penalties against Penn State, critics claimed he trampled on due process and pushed the NCAA to overstep its bounds.
REFORM PACKAGE: NCAA's passage is a milestone
But when the NCAA Division 1 Board of Directors passed a package of 25 rules reforms Saturday — Phase 1 in a multi-step, multi-year agenda — it marked a significant milestone in the 60-year-old Emmert's tenure.
Whether any of the changes will have a significant lasting impact on college athletics is unclear. Most of them are simple deregulatory measures — for example, coaches can now text and call recruits as much as they want — that may go unnoticed by the general public.
WHAT'S NEXT: Phase II issues are more complex
But given the relative cooperation Emmert got in pushing this reform package through the various committees and processes, there is perhaps now a blueprint for how he can reshape the NCAA into the more efficient, tougher, common-sense organization he talked about when he took office as opposed to the uncontrollable beast that seemed to overwhelm his agenda for much of his first year as president.
"We're all good critics," Oregon State president Ed Ray said. "It's a lot easier to stand on the sidelines and say, 'You better fix these five things.' There's still a lot to do, and what we're doing is not going to be perfectly implemented but I'm very proud of Mark and very pleased with the effort he's putting in. His energy is unbelievable. There are a lot of people that felt a lot of meaningful changes did need to occur, but at the end of the day Mark is the one who has to make it real, and he's doing it." Read more...http://www.usatoday.
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