re: "in-state coaches driving recruits away from LSU and towards Bama"?

Lacy really isn't dumb like people want to believe, however, he did receive grades only because he was an athlete. Therefore he never learned how to properly study and developed many bad habits that needed to be rectified before college. Many stud athletes have same issue, they do just enough to get by and then last minute they struggle because everything had been given to them.
Yet a lot of the "Lacy is dumb" comments come because he did not come to LSU or Miles did not recruit him. I would bet there are a few on the LSU that would actually struggle more than Lacy but had a little more assistance in high school and what not.