LSU Football: Ed Orgeron throws shade at recruiting rankings

LSU football head coach Ed Orgeron doesn’t put much stock into recruiting rankings.

LSU football finished the 2020 recruiting cycle with the No. 4 ranked class in the nation.

But Tigers head coach Ed Orgeron doesn’t really care about where LSU’s class ranks.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Orgeron threw shade at recruiting rankings, bringing up that LSU signed a Heisman Trophy winner in 2018 with the No. 15 ranked class in the nation.

Coach O is of course referring to quarterback Joe Burrow, who transferred to LSU in 2018.

However, Burrow didn’t factor into LSU’s 2018 class ranking.

But Orgeron’s point still remains.

Ja’Marr Chase, the 2019 Biletnikoff award winner, was a member of the Tigers’ 2018 recruiting class.

Chase, who will be a junior next season, is one of the best college football players in the nation. And he wasn’t enough to elevate LSU’s 2018 class into the top 10.

Orgeron is right that recruiting rankings ultimately don’t matter. Once players arrive on campus, where they were ranked goes out the window.

But that doesn’t mean that recruiting rankings aren’t important.

Sure, recruiting services miss on plenty of players. But for the most part, they get it right.

The programs competing for championships are typically the schools landing top recruiting classes.

I understand why Orgeron and other head coaches blow off recruiting rankings, but it’s still a good feeling when your program lands a top five class.

You know, kind of like LSU did in 2020 with the No. 4 ranked class in the nation (insert winky face here).