Christian Booker WR

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Decision coming Saturday for De La Salle 2016 WR Christian Booker (@Dreamchaser7__) - told me earlier his top two were #Tulane and #Utah

11:23 AM - 20 Jul 2015

@FearTheWaveBlog: If Booker commits to Tulane, Wave moves from 4th to 3rd place in AmeriCon recruiting rankings. Would jump Cincy. https://t.co/dT8Ns7MxxF

[Jonathan]

Would be a nice pick up for Tulane. He is a three star athlete as per 247 Sports.

[Pullinmyhairout]

http://www.nola.com/recruiting/index.ss ... cart_river

Wow. Guess we didn't have room for him. SMH

[TXWave88]

Anyone know the real story here? Went from Utah or Tulane and ended up at Nicholls??

[Forever TU]

I have a feeling it was either grades or that we simply filled up before he was ready to commit. I'll admit it does seem weird though. All the buzz I had heard from Lopez and others was that we were his clear #1. To go from us to Nicholls is...odd.

I wonder if Booker and Darius Williams both share the same fate and that for whatever reason Darius hasn't been mentioned. I sure hope for his sake it was nothing egregious on his part.

[Jonathan]

Must be grades. How can Tulane pass on a great three star WR? Drop one of our recruits with no stars and add him as,a commit. Sad to lose him to lowly Nichols.

[Forever TU]

I think the other thing to consider is that we got Jac'qo Price. We filled up before Booker committed and sometimes that just the name of the game. This class is still very strong.

[tgibson]

Must be grades. How can Tulane pass on a great three star WR? Drop one of our recruits with no stars and add him as,a commit. Sad to lose him to lowly Nichols.

[jonathanjoseph]

I think the other thing to consider is that we got Jac'qo Price. We filled up before Booker committed and sometimes that just the name of the game. This class is still very strong.

Compared to what?

Compared to past Tulane classes? Sure, very strong in that regard. I've only seen online highlight reels and I like the class quite a bit and think they are probably better than their rankings.

But nationally? Against the schools that CJ is competing against? Not very good. So it's important to keep that in context. If we keep allowing Rick Dickson to define success as anything better than his usual failure, we won't ever get where we need to go.

With all the typical caveats of recruiting being inexact (and CJ being very good at it), will this recruiting class rank in the top half of D1A? Probably not. If you care about Tulane, that's not good enough.

[CN Hide & Seek Team]

Price came out of nowhere at the same camp. 247 still has him being uncommitted and recruited by Cam Cameron.

CJ knows what a WR is better than any of us.

[golfnut69]

Price came out of nowhere at the same camp. 247 still has him being uncommitted and recruited by Cam Cameron.

CJ knows what a WR is better than any of us.

hmmm... "CJ knows what a WR is better than any of us".......

. Shirley, U cannot be serious OH Wait !!!!....You are....

[CN Hide & Seek Team]

Marshall Faulk, Bobby Shaw, Santana Moss, Reggie Wayne, Ed reed, Marques Colston, Devery henderson, Robert Meacham,and Lance Moore would probably agree with me. Just sayin.

[golfnut69]

Marshall Faulk, Bobby Shaw, Santana Moss, Reggie Wayne, Ed reed, Marques Colston, Devery henderson, Robert Meacham,and Lance Moore would probably agree with me. Just sayin.

juz sayin... I have not seen any of those at Tulane....

[sader24]

CJ did not draft Colston or Henderson. Henderson was nothing special, Meachem underperformed his entire career as a 1st round draft pick. Those guys were more of a product of the best QB in the league and a top notch offensive system (2 things CJ had nothing to do with). Since getting to Tulane CJ has yet to bring in a top WR. We are now in a position in his 4th year where our two worst position groups are Kicking Specialists and WR's. CJ's WR expertise has yet to show it's face at Tulane University.

[golfnut69]

CJ did not draft Colston or Henderson. Henderson was nothing special, Meachem underperformed his entire career as a 1st round draft pick. Those guys were more of a product of the best QB in the league and a top notch offensive system (2 things CJ had nothing to do with). Since getting to Tulane CJ has yet to bring in a top WR. We are now in a position in his 4th year where our two worst position groups are Kicking Specialists and WR's. CJ's WR expertise has yet to show it's face at Tulane University.

I vote for me to be the WR's coach... Can't be that hard....example below;

"Hey You, yeah you with the low numbered jersey.... run down to the red car and make a left turn "

Hey You,,, yeah his buddy... run down to the telephone pole and turn around"

I mean how hard can it be ?!?!?!?!?

[CN Hide & Seek Team]

Never go full retard. You never come back.

[DrBox]

But nationally? Against the schools that CJ is competing against? Not very good. So it's important to keep that in context. If we keep allowing Rick Dickson to define success as anything better than his usual failure, we won't ever get where we need to go.

With all the typical caveats of recruiting being inexact (and CJ being very good at it), will this recruiting class rank in the top half of D1A? Probably not. If you care about Tulane, that's not good enough.

Actually it stands up very well against teams that Tulane is competing against. Let's start beating those teams and the recruiting will get better. They liked Price a lot, and he's in the top 20 of the TP's list of La recruits. Tulane doesn't have an advocate with rivals or scout, so our players won't get bumped in those sites.
As for recruiting WR, we've clearly been short. But CJ honestly has been light on recruiting offensive skill players since day 1. More worried about the lines and DBs and defense in general (which, frankly, had been non-existent for a decade).

[jonathanjoseph]

But nationally? Against the schools that CJ is competing against? Not very good. So it's important to keep that in context. If we keep allowing Rick Dickson to define success as anything better than his usual failure, we won't ever get where we need to go.

With all the typical caveats of recruiting being inexact (and CJ being very good at it), will this recruiting class rank in the top half of D1A? Probably not. If you care about Tulane, that's not good enough.

Actually it stands up very well against teams that Tulane is competing against. Let's start beating those teams and the recruiting will get better. They liked Price a lot, and he's in the top 20 of the TP's list of La recruits. Tulane doesn't have an advocate with rivals or scout, so our players won't get bumped in those sites.
As for recruiting WR, we've clearly been short. But CJ honestly has been light on recruiting offensive skill players since day 1. More worried about the lines and DBs and defense in general (which, frankly, had been non-existent for a decade).

You misunderstand what I mean by "competing against". I don't care how we stack up against the AAC because 1) the AAC isn't (yet) nationally relevant and 2) we need to be preparing ourselves for P5 and 3) in our recruiting battles we are up against P5 on most or all kids offered. If we can't compete on the kids that P5's offer, then we have a problem.

Again, it's all a question of context. If we were in the ACC or Big 12 (as we should be and should aspire to be), then this recruiting class isn't good enough, despite it being much better than what we've had in the past. If we spent $100M and can't get more than incremental improvement, then we've got a problem.

[DfromCT]

As for recruiting WR, we've clearly been short. But CJ honestly has been light on recruiting offensive skill players since day 1. More worried about the lines and DBs and defense in general (which, frankly, had been non-existent for a decade).

You lost me here, doctor. The D has been, by a wide margin, the stronger side of the ball since CJ and LW got here. In fact, I'd advocate LW for Head Coach if we decide that wins and losses matter and this becomes another sub .500 year. Well, only if LW had complete authority, and was able to hire his own OC.

[Jonathan]

We have a new commit,Alex Criddle only a lowly two star defensive tackle but he is big. I hope not all jello but muscle! Three star Pernell Jefferson outside LB from Warren Easton selected Oklahoma over TU and others.