As I mentioned in this morning’s notes, LSU adds another transfer — Louisiana native Andre Sam, who adds depth to the Tigers’ thin safety room.

He played four seasons at McNeese State before playing last season at Marshall.

Sam had 53 total tackles, seven passes defended and an interception last fall for the Thundering Herd.

In four years with the Cowboys, Sam accumulated 179 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss and five interceptions.

Sam earned all-state honors at wide receiver and kick returner during his prep career at Iowa High School. He caught 48 passes for 775 yards and 11 TDs as a senior, helping Iowa reach the Class 3A quarterfinals that year. For his career, he hauled in 178 passes for 2,593 yards and 31 touchdowns.

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Considered by some to be the GOAT. He wasn’t bad in the Dirty Dozen either.

Lafayette Christian Academy athlete Ju'Juan Johnson made his commitment known on the Jordy Culotta platform tonight following an unofficial visit to LSU today.

Johnson, who previously was committed to Colorado for a short period of time, becomes the 15th commitment in the Class of 2024 for the Tigers.

I hinted this morning that this could be coming sooner rather than later.

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A look at the 2025 Rivals250 quarterbacks here:

How is it possible?

No, seriously, I know we've had a few injuries, but can anyone honestly say that, if we hadn't managed to coup of Skenes, right now would we have a single legitimate starter, a single legitimate closer or a single reliable bullpen arm? Even one? How is this remotely possible? There's talent all over that bullpen, how can every one of them suddenly get the yips at the same time, conveniently right when we need to be playing our best?

I feel like we have the best offense in college baseball and yet, without Skenes, we might be .500 right now. I just don't get it.

Keep an eye on LSU potentially adding another transfer player to the roster in Louisiana native André Sam, who visited LSU Wednesday. Sam played four seasons at McNeese State then transferred to Marshall for the 2022 season. In January the safety announced he would return to Louisiana to play his final season at Tulane but then decided to hit the portal once more in May.

It seems as though half of LSU's roster took to Twitter in the last two days tweeting at Sam to join the squad.

In his lone season with Marshall, Sam had 53 total tackles, seven passes defended and an interception.

His old McNeese coach, Lance Guidry, is at Miami as the new defensive coordinator and its thought that the Hurricanes were the main competition for the Tigers. Frank Wilson was also his head coach at McNeese at one point so there's ties to LSU too.
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I spent Wednesday night at the biggest spring game I've ever seen on the high school level: Destrehan vs. Karr, which the live period ended in a 7-7 tie. But both squads are loaded with talent and the sidelines were packed with coaches.

Frank Wilson and Cortez Hankton represented LSU while I also saw coaches from Ole Miss, Alabama, Texas A&M, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, Georgia Tech, ULL, Tulane, Nicholls State, Louisiana Tech, Southeastern, UTSA, Grambling, Stephen F. Austin, Arkansas Pine Bluff, Southern Miss, Troy, Alcorn, Georgetown and very likely a handful more that I didn't see.

Ed Reed, Kirk Merritt and Justin Jefferson were on the sidelines, which was pretty neat to see the younger kids all watching Jets. LSU's Aaron Anderson was out supporting Karr too.

I have an interview coming with LSU commit Kolaj Cobbins, who now stands at an impressive 6-3, 215 pounds. He's much bigger than the last time I saw him in person. He was quick off the edge and getting pressure in the backfield consistently throughout the game. He's going to fit that JACK role at LSU perfectly.

Both these teams are stacked with impressive WRs too.

Destrehan: Makylon Smothers, Johnnie Thiel IV, Phillip Wright III, Gregory Wilford and Jabari Mack
Karr: Rahji Dennis, Taron "Manchild" Francis and Tyrone Wilson (Destyn Hill’s younger brother)

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My son finishes up his Junior Year with All State in Baseball too!! @Julie Boudwin

Brooks Ward , Junior, OF, Catholic HS - .478 batting average, 6 HR's, 9 Doubles, 26 RBI, 23 Runs Scored, .852 Slugging Percentage, 1.382 OPS, .974 Fielding Percentage.

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gents, amid the other worldly shitty woes of the bullpen I would like to share the following. 53 games into the season and LSU has (3) players hitting .400 or better including (2) who qualify per minimum at bats.

Dylan Crews: .438 BA, 13 HRs, 55 RBIs
Tommy White: .400, 18 HRs, 86 RBIs
Hayden Travinski: .439, 6 HRs, 19 RBIs

not too shabby. I know Larson has the homerun record at 40. what's are the BA and RBI records? .438 BA and 86 RBIs must be close?

Geaux Tigers. we need to prison rape Georgia this weekend

Came across this in my Youtube feed and made me laugh. Though I'd share.
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Tigers need:

1) A sweep of Georgia, Arkansas loses 2 of 3 at Vanderbilt, and Florida loses 1 of 3 at Kentucky.

2) OR LSU takes 2 of 3 at Georgia, Arkansas gets swept at Vandy, and Florida loses 2 of 3 at Kentucky.

Does it really matter?

Joe Burrow, his family and his foundation covered mental health expenses for 20 Cincinnati families.

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Money on the bump
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Ground out to 2nd (think he was safe)
Ground to SS, Travinski playing first, drops the ball
Ground to first
Money looked sharp in inning 1

LSU and Robert Steeples been keeping tabs on four-star Mississippi corner PJ Woodland for quite some time now and PJ has visited before, including for the spring game in April.

Steeples wanted to see PJ in practice before offering him. He visited Oak Grove and was able to watch a practice then extended the offer.

I'm not sure yet how it may or may not change things for PJ, who did tell me he'll take another visit back to LSU now that he has the offer.

He previously named a top five of Florida State, Texas A&M, Tennessee, Texas and Mississippi State.

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Much more here:

Mike Denbrock offered Butte College's Connor Gilbreath last week and he wasted little time scheduling an official to Baton Rouge. Gilbreath said he and Denbrock decided on June 16-18 for his OV.

The offer was at tight end but the hope would be to transition into an offensive tackle as Gilbreath is more of a blocking TE not necessarily a pass catching one.

Washington, Missouri, Mississippi State, Colorado and Miami are some of the other schools in the mix for the 6-6, 270-pounder.

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Go Tigers

LSU QB commit Colin Hurley continues to do major work behind the scenes to help put this class together. Hurley will visit LSU June 23-25 unofficially to assist the coaches and try to reel in a few big names.

Cam Coleman will take his official that weekend, along with Cai Bates and Ethan Calloway, which I mentioned those two in a previous post on OVs.

Hurley will save his OV to LSU for another weekend to close on more recruits, which if it works out that way by best guess would be late fall for his OV.

"(It was) just their relentless effort to show me I was a priority," Johnson told Rivals. "Ultimately, this is where my heart is at.

"My whole life I’ve been taught family. This is family!"

With the addition of Ju'Juan Johnson, LSU is sitting at No. 4 in the Rivals rankings.