RECRUITING UPDATE: Reid Ferguson
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| Tigers nab long snapper as 15th 2012 commitment
By RICHARD FISCHER
Tiger Rag Assistant Editor
Several recruiting websites are reporting that the Tigers have received a verbal commitment from offensive lineman and long snapper Reid Ferguson.
The Buford, Ga. native is LSU’s 15th verbal commitment in its 2012 class.
He has been a student of Chris Rubio Long Snapping since 2007, and by all accounts, he is one of the best long snappers in the nation.
The 6-2, 235-pound athlete also received scholarship offers from Tennessee and San Diego State before committing to the Tigers Monday.
Long snapper appears to be a position of need as three of four currently on LSU’s roster are upperclassmen, including seniors Joey Crappell and Alex Russian. That leaves brothers Austin and Hunter Kinchen as LSU’s only long snappers by the time Ferguson gets to campus in 2012.
Really- A long snapper! Do you waste a scholarship on this position? No- you train another plyer on roster how to snap a football. IT”S CALLED “COACHING”!!!! Have you ever heard of that concept, Les?
Hey GN. Les Miles does a good enough job coaching and in recruiting. You are very condescending and arrogant with those comments. I am sure that Les Miles has a achieved a level of success in his career that you not have in your career. Most of his decisions have turned out pretty well. I doubt he will be calling you for your input. Knowing all of the facts before you spout off about a damn good coach’s judgment is called thinking. Have you heard of that concept, GN?
Charles- You must have been living under a rock and missed the Tennessee, Ole Miss, Arkansas, etc. games. That was some great coaching in those games. And then to say that because of his great coaching, he caused Tennessee into a penalty with 13 players on the field on the last play of the game. You mean that football coach. Ya, right. By the way, you were the person in the Geico commercial..
GN — Coach Miles has the best record and winning percentage of any coach in LSU history after 6 years and over course of those 6 years the SEC has been by far the best conference in the United States. Easy to be a Monday morning quarterback and hang around the water cooler and second guess Coach Miles decisions — and some of them were wrong as he will concede. But your focusing on games he lost and ignoring all of his big wins and overal record serves absolutely no purpose.
GN, have you ever been paid to coach a football team? Are you saying you could coach last year’s Tigers to a better than 11-2 record? This year’s Tigers could win every game and be unscored on & you would find something to carp about. Your ego should be pumped since 2 real Tiger fans saw fit to waste time replying to your crap. By the way, in case you missed it the Tigers won 2 of the 3 games you mentioned. Crawl back under your rock!
GN is an idiot. He has to point to 2 games we WON last year as examples of poor coaching?? What a ‘tard. Excellent special teams play is one of the reasons LSU wins so many close games against great competition. Les Miles is a damned fine coach and he understands this: Every punt, field goal and extra point has to start with a good snap. A poor snap on any one of these plays is always a HUGE loss…like a turnover. One play like that can lose a game. And anyone who thinks it’s easy has never tried to concentrate on making a perfect pass, upside down, between their legs…KNOWING that several very large angry men are going to knock the crap out of you as soon as you do it. So if our coach thinks it is a valuable use of a scholarship to make sure this vital position is well-manned for the next 4 years, I fully support that decision. Go troll somewhere else GN.
GN, gn, gn…smh. I truly hope next time before you go poppin’ off at the mouth you think before you press the enter button on your comments. These other good people have slapped you around well enough to where I don’t really feel the need to pile on. Les is a great Coach, but it’s common practice nationwide to recruit long snapper specialists. How about you coach a kid to long snap and then we’ll laugh as those snaps continuously fly over the holders or punters heads costing you games. GN shut down and stay out of the neighborhood. lol
The above reminds me of a couple of little “puppies” barking back and forth at each other…look I like LES, but he has been very fortunate, he came into a very good situarion. I remember a few years back, when a young man named PAUL DIETZEL came to LSU, I BELIEVE THAT THEY PAID HIM $15,000 A YEAR, I WAS MAKING MORE THAN PAUL, PAUL DEVISED THE THREE TEAMS THE WHITE, THE GOald AND THE CHINESE BANDITS, A VERY SCRAPPY DEFENCE, PAUL SAID ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS GET THE BALL BACK, 11 ON 1, AND THEY SURE DID…PAUL was a very smart guy, THE SMARTEST THE TIGERS EVER HAD… he had nothing to work with and the High School Coaching was not all that great!!! He went into the field from one high school to another and did every thing that he could to help football at the high school level! Also in Texas and Miss., He did it and I have had many High School Coaches say that from that came LOUUSIANA FOOTBALL, the fiesty fifties, and you could go to tiger stadium on a good football night and throw a silver dollar Into the home side of the football stands and you would probably not hit a person, LOOK at what TALL PAUL DID!!! The stands are full, have been since 1958, PAUL had nothing but scratch to work with, built from nothing but the DIETZEL BRAIN, not the MAC brain, Mac received what Paul built, Paul built from nothing to a national CHAMPIONSHIP, the first and as I judge the only one, yes I know, they do credit SABIN with one, and MILES with one, but neither was a real clean cut NC!!! The 58 NC was an undefeated with the loosing team doing so with a big ole GOOSE EGG ZERO on their score, we never see that any more, We should have had two undefeated seasons but for an official from tulane, said that cannon was not over the line on I believe a two point play, and Billy says that he clearly was, that would have been two undefeated years, yes if Dietzel had remained as coach, he would have had many more, but he left thinking that he would become another BLAIKE, that was not to be, he made a big mistake, he could have been there still coaching at LSU had he wanted to do so…instead he went to West Point I FOLLOWED AND HELPED HIM FIND A FEW IN MY AREA!!! IN FACT I SENT A FEW HIGH SCHOOL ALL AMERICIANS TO THE POINT!!! WE BUILT AND PAUL LEFT AGAIN AS WE HAD A GREAT TEAM AT THE POINT BUT PAUL WAS IN SOUTH CAROLINA AS WE COULD NOT FIND A COACH FOR WEST POINT, WE PLACED THE FRESHMAN COACH INTO PAUL’S POSITION, HE REALLY DID NOT KNOW WHAT HE WAS DOING, AND WE HAD A GREAT TEAM THAT YEAR AND THE FRESHMAN COACH TURNED HEAD COACH WAS NAMED COACH OF THE YEAR…IF PAUL HAD STAYED, WE COULD HAVE EASILLY WON THE NC!!! I HAVE LOTS OF STORIES BUT THEY ARE SO OLD I AM ABOUT THE ONLY ONE LEFTto believe them, OH, NO PAUL IS STILL LIVING, WHY IS THAT PAUL, I BELIEVE THAT I AM A COUPLE MONTHS OLDER THAN PAUL, WE ARE ON OUR WAY TO IF THE GOOD LORD ALLOWS, # 88, PAUL WE ARE GETTING OLD COACH!!! HOPE THAT YOU AND ANN ARE HEALTHY AND DOING WELL!!! I LOST MY LIL PEARLEY OCTOBER 29, 2005, I THINK A LOT OF PAUL, BELIEVE THAT HE IS THE VERY BEST COACH THAT I HAVE EVER KNOWN, EXCEPT MAYBE COACH “RED” BLAIKE, JUST MIGHT HAVE BEEN A BIT BETTER, HE WAS A GOOD ONE, THE VERY BEST, EXCEPT MY OLE TENNESSEE COACH AND GENERAL, JUST MAYBE COACH NEYLAND WAS THE BEST OF ALL TIME, I KNOW THAT HIS RECORD WAS, MAYBE…NO!!! THE BEST OF ALL TIME WAS GEN. ROBERT NEYLAND OF THE TENNESSEE VOLS, NEVER OR EVER WILL BE ONE LIKE THE GENERAL!!! MARANATHA!!!
People- Don’t we have a “special teams coach” on staff. Remember Brian Kitchen? He was drafted in the NFL, not as a long snapper but rather a position player. And was coached as a long snapper which extended to a nice career. I’m not saying that Les does not have a very good record. I’m saying you don’t take a schlorship for a long snapper when you’re limited in schlorships because the self-imposed penalty. Jon, These players on the team are very talented and can be cross trained. PERIOD!!!! Schlorship for punter/FG kicker, yes. Sign them because not everyone can be taught that talent. However a snapper….yes, it’s coachable!!!!
Jon- The Ole Miss game with poor clock management in Oxford was a LOSS!!!!