Rabalais: Liggins breaks QB mold
by chicageaux on Feb 6, 2012 9:10 AM CST
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Hart said Liggins’ biggest attribute is not his size but his dedication to winning. It’s what helped lead Lafayette to back-to-back Class 4A Mississippi state championships and 32 straight victories to close his prep career.
"He’s a leader. A big leader with a small ego," Hart said. "He’s willing for others to have success. That’s what made us successful. Some nights our running back ran for 200, 300 yards and Jeremy didn’t get that many. But that was never an issue. He’s got a great work ethic."
While LSU flirted with, courted and was ultimate jilted by one of the nation’s top quarterback prospects in Gunner Kiel (he signed with Notre Dame), Liggins stuck with the Tigers and gave LSU the quarterback signee its class desperately needed.
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Despite advice to the contrary from Miles, Liggins marched right into the town square of downtown Oxford, Miss., his hometown and just a couple of fly patterns from the Ole Miss campus, and announced his commitment to LSU last Monday. And even though he’s big enough to be a quarterback’s blocker, he is confident he can play the position on the college level.
Liggins has more than big chest…..he has big BALLS.
by MikeDeTiger on Feb 6, 2012 12:07 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
If there's anything Rocky taught us...
…it’s that a scrappy, hungry underdog can beat the biggest, baddest, best trained competition by sheer force of will and desire. Liggins seems to have that scrap and hunger.
As Calvin Coolidge (yeah, I’m quotin’ Coolidge; we were buds back in the day) said, “Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
Of course, there are stories of underdogs getting crushed, but delusional optimism doesn’t care about those stories.
by chicageaux on Feb 6, 2012 2:40 PM CST up reply actions 3 recs
“He’s a leader. A big leader with a small ego,” Hart said. “He’s willing for others to have success. That’s what made us successful. Some nights our running back ran for 200, 300 yards and Jeremy didn’t get that many. But that was never an issue. He’s got a great work ethic.”
WOOO!!!! can’t wait to see him compete
(Martin Landau) Bela Lugosi: How dare that a****** bring up Karloff? You think it takes talent to do Frankenstein? It's all makeup and grunting.
--From the movie Ed Wood
GET TO THE RIM HEAT (and SKY)! ATTACK THE PAINT!
He’s a leader. A big leader with a small ego
I find it kind of hard to believe he has a small ego when he announced his intentions of going to LSU in the middle of Oxford, against Miles’ encouragement not to. And then to rub salt in their wounds, he says he’s going to LSU because he wants to play and win National Championships, and would not get that opportunity at the MS schools. I know it’s the truth, but still a somewhat uncalled for low blow.
Look, don’t get me wrong, I don’t dislike Liggins or anything and I will never feel bad for Ole Piss. I actually love his commitment because I feel he could potentially play numerous positions at LSU if QB doesn’t work out for him, whereas Kiel is either a QB or bust… but it takes a nice size ego and some big cojones to announce against your hometown University in the middle of Oxford. At least when we lost Collins, he announced far away from here and he didn’t try to make a spectacle out of it (unfortunately his mother was the one to do that).
sheeeit, LC made a spectacle of it as well. (both sets of gloves while announcing on national tv)
most of them do nowadays.
nemo me impune lacessit
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Kids live where they live, LC and others get the opportunity to do it at an all-star game but most other kids have to announce where they live and it’s big business for local companies to a degree so this type of thing is completely normal. They are just glad to have a recruit that garners a few thousand people caring on a single night where he is and what he’s doing.
by funkyheadhunter on Feb 12, 2012 1:27 AM CST reply actions
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