Link: CB Janzen Jackson Update (2/01): He talks about his Bama visit - Page 6

liquidvengeance · January 26th, 2009, 01:16 AM

Anyone know what the score was for the Bama lswho game this year?

Crimson Surfer · January 26th, 2009, 02:16 AM

	Quote:	dbg4lsu
	like i said on page 1 no

No you said no on page 2.

dWarriors88 · January 26th, 2009, 04:41 PM

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	like i said on page 1 no

Since you nailed this one on the head, Where do you suppose RR ends up?

BigEasyTider · January 31st, 2009, 07:53 PM

One interesting thing about Jackson...

With Jackson's father now leaving Lake Charles for a job with Miami (Ohio), and taking all of his immediately family with him, suddenly LSU is no longer the "home" team, and in fact are the farthest away of his final three. Baton Rouge was only about two hours away from his family, but now that is much different.

Knoxville is suddenly the closest to Oxford, Ohio, coming in at only about four and a half hours away. Tuscaloosa is second closest, though in all fairness it's still a good nine hour drive. Baton Rouge, however, is the farthest away, at right about a fifteen hour drive depending on how you hit traffic in the bigger cities, so it's pretty much a two-day trip.

I imagine he'll still stick with LSU, but he is visiting us this weekend, and a good number of Tennessee people think they will get him.

rtr1973 · February 1st, 2009, 12:23 PM

Now that other schools can no longer contact him (except for their 1 per week telephone call), I'll go on record as saying that I believe that Janzen Jackson is the 'mystery commit' which Scout.com's Andrew Bone mentioned in his weekly chat at TideSports.com. I have no inside information, but present as evidence:

(1) - LSU wants Janzen to play cornerback. CNS wants him to play safety. While he played both positions in high school, Janzen has stated he prefers playing safety.

(2) - He became much more interested in Bama when co-defensive coordinators Bradley Dale Peveto (who was recruiting Janzen) and Doug Mallory (who would have been Janzen's position coach) left LSU. Peveto took a job at Northwestern State and Mallory took a job at New Mexico, both at significantly lower salaries than they earned at LSU.

(3) - While Jackson's father, Lance Guidry, supported Janzen's initial decision to commit to LSU, he also likes and respects Coach Saban.

(4) - Janzen's father, Lance Guidry, accepted an assistant coaching position at Miami University (Ohio) early last week (officially announced yesterday) and the family's imminent move will end the in-state pressure on Janzen to attend LSU. Guidry was previously employed as an assistant coach at McNeese State.

(5) - Janzen Jackson took an official visit to Alabama this weekend.

(6) - Janzen's signing is tentatively scheduled for 7 PM on NSD which suggests it won't be held at his school, thereby avoiding a potentially hostile crowd if he doesn't sign with the home state school.

(7) - Janzen is rated as a 5-star on Rivals, but is a 4-star on Scout.com (Andrew Bone's primary employer). He therefore meets the '4-star' criteria Bone used to describe the 'surprise commit'.

Maybe I'm totally off base, but that's my reading of the tea leaves.

G-VilleTider · February 1st, 2009, 12:48 PM

rtr1973,

I have been wondering who bone's "secret" pick is. Hope you are right!

CullmanTide · February 1st, 2009, 12:50 PM

You make some very good points. Let's hope you're right.

cmmiller711 · February 1st, 2009, 02:03 PM

i'm thinking that we have a shot. i'm not even 30 percent sure he'll switch at all, but we have a shot.

lsufan10 · February 1st, 2009, 02:47 PM

	Quote:	rtr1973
	(1) - LSU wants Janzen to play cornerback. CNS wants him to play safety. While he played both positions in high school, Janzen has stated he prefers playing safety.

This might have been true of the old D coaching staff, but with a new staff in place and a different system, JJ might have been told he could play safety. We need both in a bad way, as any game save the last showed that we were very weak in the secondary.
He said a couple of days ago that he was pretty solid to LSU after the new coaches talked to him, as he started looking around after BDP and DM moved on. I am hoping that he stays that way.

BigEasyTider · February 1st, 2009, 02:50 PM

I hope that we can turn Jackson, but I'm not betting on it. Even with all of the foregoing, I still expect that he will sign with LSU.

BigEasyTider · February 1st, 2009, 02:53 PM

And you can officially close the book on Jackson... he returned from his visit to Alabama and said that he was still solid to LSU.

dWarriors88 · February 1st, 2009, 02:56 PM

I would be somewhat shocked if we picked up JJ, but It's possible, I didnt think we'd get massie, and lookie here... CNS Never ceases to amaze me!!

lsufan10 · February 1st, 2009, 03:09 PM

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	And you can officially close the book on Jackson... he returned from his visit to Alabama and said that he was still solid to LSU.

If signing day was a couple of weeks ago, I think JJ would have been at Bama. Hiring Ron Cooper (no Saban, but a pretty good DB coach) from SCar probably saved us.