re: Not giving up on Simmons but

So this is an event that LSU is going to host elite out of state and in state prospects at. This will be the big recruiting event for LSU before the season starts.

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BATON ROUGE — Imagine you are a five-star prospect visiting LSU.

You are sitting in a rocking chair on the balcony of the home of new LSU coach Brian Kelly on University Lake with a view of Tiger Stadium and the Memorial Tower in the distance.

And suddenly, Tiger Stadium lights up.

Kelly could probably have someone do that Saturday night when he and his wife, Paqui, host two dozen or more high school prospects from around the country at his $3 million, 5,000-square-foot palatial home after his first spring game that afternoon in that stadium.

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Brian Kelly Had A Rough Start, But His Process Is Rolling Now

“With Brian Kelly’s home being within a mile of campus, he will be able to host all prospects – official and unofficial visitors – at his home,” Bo Bahnsen, LSU’s retired director of NCAA compliance, said on Friday. “If he lived more than a mile out, he could only have the official visitors over and would have to tell the unofficial guys they couldn’t come.”

Before the mile radius rule, schools often violated the rules by mixing unofficial visitors with official visitors at host sites around campus, Bahnsen said.

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