re: Is there an undisclosed back story to the Patrick Surtain flip?

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He could have had a contingency plan in place and not had all of his eggs in the basket of a kid who had been "committed" for 2+ years, yet didn't sign early. He went all in on Cam Akers last year, lost, and now the RB depth is pitiful. He went all in on Surtain this year, lost, and now the CB depth is pitiful. It's not even JUST losing Surtain, it's structuring his recruitment plan where he was even in a position to just sign ZERO CBs.

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Yesterday I captioned a similar quote that hits the mark without a lot of extraneous hyperbole...this is another one and your example of Akers last year is a perfect.

We would have had Etienne if we had offered him as a junior, but knuckle draggers could not see the potential. Don't know who evaluates RB's, but my goodness...yes, I'm biased because ET broke the record in Jennings (hometown) that stood for 54 years.

Not an expert and rarely make a recruit prediction unless it is just flat obvious to me...three that come to mind are Anthony McFarland, Jarvis Landry and Travis Etienne. Neither of the first two were expected to be world beaters and look how they turned out...Etienne will become a special back that LSU would have, with a little effort, had in the basket.