Raymond is not leaving LSU, he's a from Louisiana & played CB at LSU, it's literally his dream job.
Diaz is not getting rid of Banda or Rumph, that's just the reality. The fact is, until we start paying we're going to continue to miss on most high ranked DB's we go after.
What our staff needs to do is hit homeruns on evals & develop the guys we do get. If you payed attention to the 2019 draft, most of the high rated 4/5-star CB's went way lower than they were expected to & a bunch of kids who were not ranked high coming out of HS were all drafted ahead of them. What that means is that those were players who were developed & still played at high level regardless of the school they went to.
The thing that irritates me more than the misses, are the other kids that be available all year long & our staff just flat out doesn't recruit them until late in the year & then get left scrambling & usually don't get any of'em.
I feel we're way too picky with how we recruit DB's, there's so many good CB's/S's in South Fla & TX regardless of their ranking in every class that all end up going to P5 schools & we act like we're too good to take them while chasing after some unrealistic prospect that only ends up laughing at us & signing elsewhere.