LSU doesn’t dip into the JUCO well often. Frankly, it rarely works out. They hit on Zach Mettenberger, but the rest of this list put together by Ross Dellenger over the past decade are a bunch of misses. It’s mostly odds and ends and a few outright busts. This was, of course, during the Miles era. But even under Saban, players like Mario Stevenson and E.J. Kuale never really became the type of elite playmakers we anticipated they would be.
So it’s interesting to see Orgeron turn immediately to the JUCO pool in his 2nd, and first full, recruiting class.