re: Racey McMath commits to LSU

He hasnt said anything bad about LSU, but I havent found much that he has said about LSU directly at all, indicating that were were ever really a serious contender as one of his chosen schools. Most of the things you read attributed to him, could just be people in the family who knows?

From everything you read on nola, the advocate, and Shea's twitter feed, you come away from all of it feeling like he is playing us, and it doesnt make any sense as to why, LSU has never done anything to him but let him know we really would like him to play football here.

Part of the problem is that I take the whole recruiting thing way too personally, but I think all of us can agree we really want to see kids play here that genuinely want to be here. If a kid really doesn't feel like playing here, ok, cool, but I wish they would just be straightforward about it and say that. I can respect when a decision is made one way or another, but make the decision, and try do do things the right way. That is basically all I mean.

In my opinion, I still think we got a player who is going to be better in the long term in McMath, but that still remains to be proven. Personally, I would like to see us sign a linebacker in the place that Smith would have taken, because I think that is an area of a much higher need right now.