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2026 Lamar Brown 5* OT/DT from University Lab in Baton Rouge, LA Commits to LSU

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TheOriginalCane said:
And adults.
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Ah CIS where Dennis Smith is STILL baba yaga anytime a big recruitment is looking shakey - even after these “adult” hires , but is obviously a nobody after being demoted when they look good…
Clearly he shouldn’t be really in the deciding process for who we choose to recruit. But clearly this is a dude that Mario feels recruits well. And D$ keeps saying was pretty big role in Cam and Cantwells recruitment. But also you don’t need to be a good evaluator to know Lamar Brown is worth a big bag
 
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AtlAtty said:
Based on @1murhurricane’s post and comments from @DMoney , I would submit that UM has very good data analytics that is focused on where NIL should be allocated, and hopefully good eyes for talent to be able to distinguish between low rated 5 star that will cost $X against high rated 4 star that will cost $X-Y, which in turn means more $$ to be used somewhere else.

But back the first point, which is an educated guess on my part from the post I referenced, UM has enough data to look at the Rate of Return on NIL spending at positions (and can also use that date from other schools). As an example from how we recruit, it certainly seems like the ROR on high school OT’s is much greater than the ROR on high school QB’s. Hence we see UM pursue and land Cantwell, but not pursue 5 star high school QB’s. Instead we go for 4 star high school QB’s who cost a LOT less than 5 star QB’s, and use our money towards OT’s and DLine and Dbacks.

We don’t seem to prioritize LB’s. This cycle will likely tell us a lot about what UM believes the ROR is WR’s.

The NFL has been doing this type of analysis for decades. The book and movie Blindisde was intriguing to the author as a subject because he noticed that LT’s were the 2nd highest paid position in the NFL. He was initially writing about the 49ers LT Steve Wallace, To no great surprise, after seeing the Joe Theismann injury at the hands of Lawrence Taylor, the visionary Bill Walsh made the Niners LT, Steve Wallace, the 2nd highest paid player on the team to Joe Montana, as it was Steve Wallace protecting Montana’s blindside (hence the name). Wallace recommended that author Michael Lewis focus on Michael Oher, who was not only an LT, but had a crazy backstory.

College football is just catching up now that the $$$ is a quantifiable factor,
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Which is an incredibly smart way to allocate finite resources…

As far as the recruiting process itself tho, it seems they are being more aggressive this year in terms of getting early commits. In the past, Mario seemed to push for late in the process OVs. This cycle it looks like the highly valued croots are coming in early.
 
1mg of Epi said:
Which is an incredibly smart way to allocate finite resources…

As far as the recruiting process itself tho, it seems they are being more aggressive this year in terms of getting early commits. In the past, Mario seemed to push for late in the process OVs. This cycle it looks like the highly valued croots are coming in early.
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Flips are difficult and especially with NIL involved. Programs are locking players in earlier than ever. The days of a Bowden coming in and cleaning up the last two weeks of January are long gone. These kids are about business and less about games now.
 
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1mg of Epi said:
Which is an incredibly smart way to allocate finite resources…

As far as the recruiting process itself tho, it seems they are being more aggressive this year in terms of getting early commits. In the past, Mario seemed to push for late in the process OVs. This cycle it looks like the highly valued croots are coming in early.
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I think @bobbydigius nailed it. NIL has not only impacted who is paid, but when the commit needs to happen. Its probably a lot harder to flip a player who has already signed an NIL deal in the 5 and 6 figures, than it was to flip a player who had received $2500 or $5000 to commit
 
AtlAtty said:
I think @bobbydigius nailed it. NIL has not only impacted who is paid, but when the commit needs to happen. Its probably a lot harder to flip a player who has already signed an NIL deal in the 5 and 6 figures, than it was to flip a player who had received $2500 or $5000 to commit
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Yes.

And while multiple schools don't mind paying a few thousand for visits and verbal commits and whatnot, many programs do NOT seem to like being asked to benchmark their NIL deals to ALREADY-SIGNED deals from other schools.

It's one thing for a coach to be told "well, University X is verbally offering me this amount", but when schools see a legally-binding bird-in-hand that might be a bit bigger and more certain than expected, they tend to feel like they might be getting played, and that the recruit might use THEIR written deal to go out and get another higher bid.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Yes.

And while multiple schools don't mind paying a few thousand for visits and verbal commits and whatnot, many programs do NOT seem to like being asked to benchmark their NIL deals to ALREADY-SIGNED deals from other schools.

It's one thing for a coach to be told "well, University X is verbally offering me this amount", but when schools see a legally-binding bird-in-hand that might be a bit bigger and more certain than expected, they tend to feel like they might be getting played, and that the recruit might use THEIR written deal to go out and get another higher bid.
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AtlAtty said:
I think @bobbydigius nailed it. NIL has not only impacted who is paid, but when the commit needs to happen. Its probably a lot harder to flip a player who has already signed an NIL deal in the 5 and 6 figures, than it was to flip a player who had received $2500 or $5000 to commit
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I think our track record for flipping players and not getting flipped in return is probably the most impressive thing about the program

I’m not in the rooms doing these deals but to me while we may not be the richest program in the country, whoever is handling our NIL is extremely impressive
 
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