re: Mitchell robinson leaving WKU

This is what I was told.

1. You don't officially count as NCAA enrolled unless you're enrolled as a full-time student. Meaning you're taking 12 hours in a semester. So you can enroll in summer school and still count as a signee. I'm not 100 percent sure that's correct, but that's what I was told.

2. Western Kentucky is a colossal mess with Stansbury and they've got a problem. The athletic director isn't happy with him because he went 15-16 with a team picked 2nd in that conference last year, and now he's got recruits who were supposed to make them the next Gonzaga who don't even want to be there because he ran Williams off.

3. Robinson has told some recruiting people that he'll go to Kentucky, which is a leverage move as I understand it because if he went there it would really be a black eye for WKU. They won't want to release him to UK; LSU would be more palatable to them because it's the home state school after all.

4. If he doesn't get a release anywhere, he's going to play in Europe but on the way out of the country he's supposedly going to stop off in New York and Bristol and do some interviews about his recruitment by WKU. Which the athletic director is terrified about because he's heard all the same rumors.

I had a normally very skeptical member of the BR sports media call me yesterday and tell me he thinks this is going to come together after all. I would still call it a long shot but don't be too shocked if it happens - LSU has a coach who is highly, HIGHLY persuasive about selling his program, and I don't mean that in a way suggestive of anything untoward. He's a good, old-fashioned closer.