I’ve been known to spend too much time tracking college basketball recruiting — the better to prepare for smashdowns like tonight’s — but college football recruiting has always seemed like too much of a timesuck for me. There are way too many high schoolers to track — who wants to invest time in knowing the 34th-best offensive tackle in Arkansas?

But I do feel it necessary to point out that the son of former New Orleans Saints quarterback Bobby Hebert — one of the great Cajuns in modern athletic history — signed up with LSU today.

And, even better, his name is T-Bob Hebert. Yes, T-Bob. Awesome.

(For those who don’t know, a Cajun son who shares the name of his father is traditionally prefixed by “T.” It’s short for “petit,” which is French for “little.” So if I ever had a Josh Jr., he’d be T-Josh. My first cousin is named Ronald, same as his dad — and despite the fact he is now 30 years old, he’s very much still T-Ron.)

07 February 2007

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