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re: Can we please stop all the LSU makes a player's top 5, top 10, top 20 list!

Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:50 pm to
Posted by Salviati
Member since Apr 2006
5604 posts
Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:50 pm to
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I'm sick of the top X list for another reason. It is meaningless. First, the usual number initially is top 12 which means everything being equal you have an 8% chance of getting the guy.
So you're sick of the percentages? You don't care about 8%?

I love those posts. I love every post about percentages, whether it's 8%, or 5%, or even 1%. You've got to learn to love percentages because the recruiting board is all about percentages.

You know, when you get old in life things get taken from you. I mean that's . . . part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life’s this game of percentages. So is recruiting. Because in either game, life or recruiting, the margin for error is so small -- I mean one-half a bag too late, or too early, and you don’t quite commit ‘em. One percentage too slow, too fast, you don’t quite sign ‘em.

The percentages we need are everywhere around us.

They’re in every break of recruiting, every minute, every second.

On this board, we fight for that percentage. On this board, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that percentage. We claw with our fingernails for that percentage, because we know when we add up all those percentages that’s gonna make the frickin' difference between top three ranking in the nation or bottom five in the SEC! Between livin' and dyin'!

I’ll tell you this: In any fight, it’s the guy who’s willing to pay who’s gonna win that percentage. And I know if I’m gonna have any life anymore, it’s because I’m still willin' to fight and pay for that percentage. Because that’s what livin' is! The percentages in front of your face!!

Now I can’t make you do it. You got to look at the guy posting above you. Look into his posts! Now I think you’re gonna see a guy who will go for that percentage with you. You're gonna see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this board because he knows, when it comes down to it, you’re gonna do the same for him!

That’s a board, gentleman!

And, either we care about percentages, now, as a board, or we will die as individuals.

That’s recruiting guys.

That's all it is.

Now, what are you gonna do?
Posted by chadr07
Pineville, Louisiana
Member since Jan 2015
8046 posts
Posted on 2/14/24 at 4:41 pm to
TLDR
Posted by NotaStarGazer
Member since Dec 2023
1186 posts
Posted on 2/14/24 at 5:25 pm to
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So you're sick of the percentages? You don't care about 8%?

I majored in math so I have nothing against percentages, but they have to be meaningful.

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And, either we care about percentages, now, as a board, or we will die as individuals. That’s recruiting guys. That's all it is. Now, what are you gonna do?
I read your very long post but enjoyed it! Not being sarcastic either BTW. Has the Zeitgeist feel to it. I did draw one conclusion. You are either the writer for the Cheez-It commercial when the players get fired up or you are trying to copyright anything related to percentages.
Posted by Smokin Joe Dumas
In your head
Member since Apr 2022
602 posts
Posted on 2/14/24 at 8:31 pm to
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You know, when you get old in life things get taken from you


And this thread has taken time that I’ll never get back.
Posted by Sissidog02
Member since Jan 2020
5417 posts
Posted on 2/14/24 at 8:57 pm to
Now that right there sounds almost like it was almost in a movie almost.
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