LSU football coach Les Miles has benefited from coaching in a state with some of the best high school football prospects in the nation — the recruiting gold mine of Louisiana. But the Pelican State has fewer premier prospects this year than usual, a...

LSU football coach Les Miles has a reputation of recruiting the best prospects in the nation. But one thing the fifth-year coach had not accomplished in his time at LSU was nabbing a high school recruit from California. But that changed with the recruitme...

Redemptorist High School junior running back Jeremy Hill ran behind the blocks of junior offensive lineman La’el Collins on his way to 1,048 yards and 13 touchdowns his sophomore season. So when Collins chose to play for LSU, Hill followed the lead ...

LSU fans didn’t need a fortune teller to see the future of the football team this weekend. The large number of high school recruits at the LSU-Florida game acted as a crystal ball. At least 40 football recruits and many prospects for other LSU sport...

Three LSU football players know what it feels like to play for the Rebels — not Ole Miss but rather the Rebels of West Monroe High School. Sophomore offensive lineman Will Blackwell, freshman linebacker Barkevious Mingo and freshman cornerback Tyler...

A visit to Baton Rouge was all Ralston Turner needed to make his college decision. Turner, a 6-foot-5-inch, 190-pound shooting guard from Muscle Shoals, Ala., committed to LSU coach Trent Johnson during a visit Sept. 11-12, becoming the third pledge in th...

The ride home after a tough loss is more of an extension of the game than a reassuring moment for Vandebilt Catholic senior center Theresa Plaisance. After all, the LSU commitment has to answer to her mom and Nicholls State women’s basketball coach ...

Prospects from the Pelican State have headlined LSU’s recruiting classes for the last few years. But LSU coach Les Miles has also been known to reach for recruits across the nation, landing out-of-state players like senior tight end Richard Dickson,...

LSU freshman forward Eddie Ludwig and Tiger commitment Matt Derenbecker lit up the gym of Metairie Park Country Day School together, leading the Cajuns to the 1A State Championship in 2009. Since then the duo has separated for a year before a possible reu...

The 2009 LSU football recruiting class was ranked as one of the three best in the country by ESPNU.com, Rivals.com and Scout.com, and the 2010 class has 22 commitments nearly five months before National Signing Day. But the 2011 class may be better than b...

This is an interactive map of LSU's 2010 recruiting commits for the 2010-2011 football season....

Freshmen defensive lineman Josh Downs and wide receiver Rueben Randle were both stars in the 2009 recruiting class, but the former Bastrop High School teammates took two different paths on their way to becoming Tigers. Downs’ recruiting strategy has...

Freshman safety Craig Loston is expected to make his debut in an LSU uniform less than two weeks after his delayed arrival in Baton Rouge. LSU coach Les Miles said Loston will see the field on Saturday against Washington — just maybe not in the defe...

Evan Washington made a deal with his dad a couple of years ago that changed his athletic career. Washington started out as a basketball player at DeSoto High School in DeSoto, Texas. But his father, Marvin, convinced him to switch to football after his ba...

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As LSU baseball continues to chug along at the College World Series, the LSU football team is having a busy June of its own. The Tigers have received commitments from six prospects this month, highlighted by Ronnie Vinson, a Class 4A All-State safety from...

The spring semester was a busy time in the recruiting world. LSU football coach Les Miles landed one of the top recruiting classes in the nation for 2009 and is already building the 2010 class. The football team locked up the No. 3 and No. 2 recruiting cl...

LSU football coach Les Miles and his staff recently added two more prospects to the 2010 recruiting class in offensive lineman Jermarcus Hardrick and outside linebacker Luke Muncie. Jermarcus “Yoshi” Hardrick, a 6-foot-7-inch, 320-pound offens...

Fort Scott Junior College offensive tackle Jamarcus Hardrick has committed to LSU, according to Rene Nadeau, college football analyst for ESPN and TigerVision. The 6-foot-7-inch, 315-pound tackle also considered Arkansas, Ole Miss, Nebraska, South Florida...

LSU landed Rivals.com’s No. 2 recruiting class with a banner 2009 year, but coach Les Miles and his staff are already hot on the recruiting trail for 2010. The Tigers have already secured six commits for the 2010 class, including four-star wide rece...