re: ***GUNNER KIEL (pronounced keel) (#1 QB recruit in nation) COMMITS TO LSU***

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He just named rb's and d line, not qb's. I can guarantee you Miles does not approach the QB position the same way.

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You two both have it wrong.

Miles will always play the player that he thinks will give him the best chance of winning...even at QB...even if he is a freshman.

But you guys mistake the more talented player for the better player. That is not always the case especially at QB. Kiel won't play much if at all next year not because Miles has some rule against it

It will be because he very likely won't be ready to play. He would have to be very special to be able to mentally understand everything he would need to understand by the start of next year.

If he doesn't commit today I think he goes elsewhere. Based on the info we have from a couple of reputable posters it was LSU as of last Tuesday.

Usually the longer a recruit waits it's a sign of fear of repercussion for leaving, but his classmates were chanting LSU at his basketball game so that doesn't seem like the case here. Who knows...love to have him at LSU though.

Voldemort indeed.

Is the kid announcing today or not?

when is he gonna announce

I dont think anybody knows!!!!!! I don't think he even knows. He probably changes his mind every hour.

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because maybe it's a tough decision?

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didn't say it wasn't I just said if it's already decided than why keep pushing the announcement back? I'm not criticizing the kid I'm just asking a question

My thought is that he is very close to his family and Christmas, and the week immediately leading up to it, is a time when the concept of "home" is stronger than at any other time of the year. His comfort zone, overall, could possibly favor ND the past few days, perhaps including even today, when the holiday is still being observed in many ways. Talk of leaving home sounds less inviting for both his family and himself.

When he wakes up on Tuesday, with New Years a far less family-oriented holiday still several days away, he may be in a far better "place" to get down to business and announce that he is leaving home.

Based on schmaltz alone, I look for his announcement to come tomorrow, to either LSU or Vandy. A Christmas announcement would have been very fitting, comfortable and appropriate if his decision were Notre Dame.

Tuesday ....