To be fair, what QB is going to commit to a school that already has Jamarcus Russell, Matt Flynn, and Ryan Perrilloux on the depth chart?

And nobody expected the Dodgers to throw that kind of money at Zach Lee.

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In a development that had to have been as shocking to the Louisiana State University football program and its fans as it was to a legion of Los Angeles Dodgers cynics who were sure the club had deliberately thrown away its first-round draft pick on an unsignable player in an effort to save money, the Dodgers reached agreement with that first-round pick, right-hander Zach Lee from McKinney (Texas) High School, just before Monday night's deadline for signing 2010 draft choices.

The deal, which is pending a physical examination that is expected to take place Wednesday in Los Angeles, carries a $5.25 million signing bonus that will be paid out during the next five years.

It is the biggest signing bonus awarded to a draft pick in Dodgers history, shattering the mark of $2.3 million given to first-rounder Clayton Kershaw in 2006.

Lee, one of the top high school pitchers in this year's draft, fell to the 28th overall pick because he let it be known before the draft it would take at least a $5 million bonus to get him to give up his football scholarship to LSU, where he would play quarterback in the fall and baseball in the spring.

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Finally, it wasn't just the fact that Gunner Kiel decommited. When you recruit the #1 QB in the nation, you make certain promises to him. While I can't verify that the coaching staff ever told him this, I feel confident that he was assured he was going to be THE guy and we wouldn't go after anyone else if he signed with us.

Then January 17th happened.

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Gunner Kiel, the No. 1 ranked high school quarterback in the nation, did not show up at LSU Monday for a meeting of early football enrollees and is not expected to begin classes with the rest of the LSU student body Tuesday.

"From what I have been told, he is no longer coming to LSU," recruiting expert Michael Scarborough of Rivals.com/TigerBait.com said Monday night. "He wants to come to LSU, but his mother (Aleta Kiel) got very emotional Monday and did not want her son to leave. He plans to enroll in classes at Notre Dame on Tuesday."

So he not only backed out of his commitment with us at literally the 11th hour as an early enrollee, he prevented us from attempting to recruit any other QB in the 2012 class. Hell, we could have gone after Jameis Winston if we had known we didn't already have OUR GUY.