re: ADAM TAYLOR COMMITS TO LSU

I completely understand the reasoning and object of noncommitable offers and in 99% of the cases there is never a frickup but this one is a frickup in communication somewhere. The kid not knowing his offer is noncommitable is one thing but a kid being confused as to whether he commited or not is not an area where there should be any confusion. In every case of a commit I've seen there is direct communication with the coaches where a kid tells the coach recruiting him or the HC that he is commiting. There is no other way to commit. So basically the way I read it is that Taylor communicated with the staff that he wanted to commit and still somewhere in that conversation he missed the part where the staff member told him they weren't accepting at this time. That should never happen. It's the coach's job to fully and clearly communicate to the kid that his commit is not being accepted. There should never be any confusion on that. It's unacceptable.

Now either one of our coaches failed to properly and clearly communicate to Taylor that his commitment wasn't being accepted, Taylor is pulling a Storm Johnson and trying to force our staff's hand or the kid was told to wait until he visits before it would be official and the kid just jumped the gun. What other options are there. Telling the kid that they want to see him run is fine and acceptable but it still should have been very clearly communicated to the kid that until then his commitment is not accepted. If the coach has to repeat it 100 times to make it clear then that is the step that needed to be taken. Unfortunately we'll likely never know what really happened but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that in the public's eye LSU will be branded the ones in the wrong because they can't publically speak about it to clarify. Just a bad looking situation.

BTW I'm not going as far as the other poster who had a doomsday attitude because overall I'm very pleased with the more aggressive stances our staff has taken in recruiting this year. Being pleased overall doesn't mean that they shouldn't be called out if they fricked this situation up. There is a reason for concern on this one at this point. Until some clarification is given it looks bad on our staff's part.(this is the 1st thread I've read today so if clarification is in one of the other threads I withhold the right to take all this back)