Landry-Walker

[Bucksnort_Dawg]

How huge could a pipeline with Landry-Walker be? I mean we have Key and we are pursuing 5* WR Devonta Jason and 4* CB Coe Harris. If we could make that a pipeline from LW to Starkville, it would be huge. Those guys are doing big things down there.

 

[MaroonCrusader]

The good thing about Landry Walker is that most of these kids have lived on the Westbank of New Orleans their whole life and would probably welcome something other than just going to Baton Rouge at LSU. Coach Knox has really done a great job in the New Orleans area recruiting guys the past few years. Dude works hard and mommas love him.

 

[Requiem For A Dawg]

We may get some the next few years because of Key but LSU will always have 1st pick with LW athletes.

 

[MaroonCrusader]

Also, LW is only a few years old. It was a merger of O. Perry Walker HS and L.B. Landry. Walker was Navy and Orange and Landry was Blue and Gold...hence their crazy color scheme and mascot (the Charging Buccaneers)

 

[MaroonCrusader]

 

[Bucksnort_Dawg]

It's different but they find a way to make it work. Like a blue with a two tone orange/yellow accent.

 

[patdog]

It actually does look good.

 

[engie]

Jason has been having a quiet recruitment, but some folks that follow closely seem to really like where we are at. I'd think we have a great chance if he doesn't go to LSU. And after the fallout last year, I'm not sure if that is going to happen or not. He's an EE though, so we should be knowing something pretty quickly.

 

[MaroonCrusader]

Last school year LA put all of these alternate graduation plans in place to where seniors probably could graduate in December of their senior year. The problem is, the state was noticing that schools were going out of their way to make sure some classes were only offered in the spring if it was a block schedule. The reason? The schools were afraid that they would lose funding if enough seniors said "screw it, I have enough credits to graduate early." Something to keep an eye on in LA, even with athletes. NOLA charter schools are notorious for doing shady stuff like this.

 

[engie]

Key made it out early last year...

 

[TheStateUofMS]

I get your point, but LSU was trying VERY hard to flip Key.

Not LW, but LSU also tried VERY hard to flip Dak.

I get your point though.

 

[engie]

I believe that was also before the fallout that LSU saw in New Orleans... the question being just how temporary that fallout is and just how much influence those coaches wield...

 

[KentuckyDawg13]

Lamar Peters is a LW grad too. Not just a football pipeline.

 

[MSUDC11]

What are the odds that Jason actually sticks with his Kansas commitment? That seems about as likely as Yancy finally saying something that makes sense.

 

[Wizard.sixpack]

less than 20% chance

 

[BiscuitEater]

The schools were afraid that they would lose funding if enough seniors said "screw it, I have enough credits to graduate early." Something to keep an eye on in LA, even with athletes. NOLA charter schools are notorious for doing shady stuff like this.

Please elucidate .. What exactly is 'shady' if ANY student does the required work to graduate early for WHATEVER reason? If schools manipulate course offerings to unnecessarily extend time to maximize attendance and taxpayer costs .. that would be 'shady,'

 

[Bucksnort_Dawg]

What are the odds that Jason actually sticks with his Kansas commitment? That seems about as likely as Yancy finally saying something that makes sense.

There's no way he takes his 5* talents to Lawrence freakin' Kansas unless he's a basketball player.

 

[MaroonCrusader]

Please elucidate .. What exactly is 'shady' if ANY student does the required work to graduate early for WHATEVER reason? If schools manipulate course offerings to unnecessarily extend time to maximize attendance and taxpayer costs .. that would be 'shady,'

I guess what I was trying to say is that most of these schools are funded (federally and state) depending on their enrollment in August and in May. This probably happens more at smaller high schools (charter or otherwise) in Louisiana who are on 4x4 block schedules (kids earn 8 hs credits a year). The school gets away with this by saying they don't have to faculty numbers to offer these classes etc...but it would be very easy to schedule the classes that kids need to graduate early in the fall. I've seen it happen here at 3 different schools in New Orleans.