re: More news on Storm

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Your opinion is that Storm never had an offer from LSU because he wanted to take visits. So why then after he met with Miles and the coaches would both Storm and his father make the announcement that he would be signing with LSU?

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I certainly don't know all that transpired either, but perhaps Storm's father hoped that by making things public it would encourage other recruits to look elsewhere. Just some speculation on my part.

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I certainly don't know all that transpired either, but perhaps Storm's father hoped that by making things public it would encourage other recruits to look elsewhere. Just some speculation on my part.

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This may very well be true.

But this would only make sense if Storm actually had committed to LSU.

I was responding to the poster who said that Storm had not committed to the Tigers. If Storm hadn't committed to the Tigers, I can't imagine for a second that he and his father would have been saying that he was going to be playing his football at LSU.

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I really hope LSU hasn't stooped this level of recruiting. I'd like to think our coaches are more forthright with recruits than this.

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From what I read, it is entirely possible that the LSU coaches were entirely forthright with Storm and his dad. It is possible they told father and son that they would accept or had accepted his commit contingent on a higher ranked or a particular running back not committing to LSU.

Lache's father's comments may have been his attempt to solidify Lache's place at LSU by "scaring" off other potential commits to LSU.

We don't know and probably never will.

The bottom line is recruiting (especially in the SEC) is getting to be a more and more nasty, dirty business. you have 40 and 50 year old grown men being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars (millions for head coaches) and a big part of their job is recruiting.

In recruiting, these "grown men" are dealing with "MINORS" (16 & 17 year old kids) and routinely mislead, manipulate or even lie to kids.

THIS CANNOT BE A GOOD THING.

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well i feel sorry for storm because i dnt know wat the deal is with his recruiting process all i got to say is that if seastrunk commits before the season starts we might still can snatch storm and and sees if he accepts the offer

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So wise beyond his years, MrGreen speaks and you chumps better listen. The man has a way with words.

If Miles took someone he had rated higher and refused Storm's commitment is still a lot better than taking players for the sake of taking with the intension to cull the bunch later.

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The coaching staff took the player they valued most. Plain and simple. They had Ware rated higher and took his commit and no longer had room for Storm. They get paid to make the hard choices and are accountable to the fans for winning. They did what they had to do.

Bottom line is they never accepted the commit from Storm so he never had a real offer.No one knows exactly what was said to him or his family so people should not be upset about the way someone was treated if you don't know exactly what was said.

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While other posts in this thread are merely speculating, this post is 100% fact. It's funny how people try to spin things so much and create drama, when in the end the truth is pretty darn simple.... We took Ware. As of now, we have not taken Storm. The guys that get paid to do this for a living, and have done this very well given our recruiting successes under Miles, made a decision that currently includes Ware and currently does not include Storm. The reasons really don't matter, but in all likelihood it was football-related, seeing as though some of the top recruiting minds in college football are the ones that made the decision.

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Neither Storm or his father would have anything to gain by coming out and publicly saying he had committed to the Tigers if it wasn't true.

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First of all, 18 year olds and their fathers that are going through the recruiting game for the first time aren't exactly "sponges" of information and communication, so it very well could be the case that they just didn't know what the hell they were talking about and totally misunderstood what they heard. They got a lot of love, and maybe thought that meant they got an offer. Secondly, even if they actually did get an offer, there are hundreds of reasons they'd want to go public with that, limited but not including scaring other recruits, making Storm look better (if LSU wants him, shouldn't all schools want him?), trying to "tie" LSU into a commitment with Storm through the media, or just simply looking for good old fashioned attention. Just because his dad said LSU had accepted his offer/commitment doesn't make it true.

We can go back-and-forth on this whole thing until we're blue in the face, but at the end of the day, we have one of if not the best recruiting staffs in the country. We don't have any reason to question their decision(s). I'm sure it was the right one. They're the ones that will be held accountable in the future, so who are we to question them at this point on this particular issue?

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The bottom line is recruiting (especially in the SEC) is getting to be a more and more nasty, dirty business. you have 40 and 50 year old grown men being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars (millions for head coaches) and a big part of their job is recruiting.

In recruiting, these "grown men" are dealing with "MINORS" (16 & 17 year old kids) and routinely mislead, manipulate or even lie to kids.

THIS CANNOT BE A GOOD THING.

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New to recruiting?

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All this tells me is that Ware was higher on the board than Storm.

If they really want Storm, then they would still have him and Ware would have been told a spot was not available.

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Yeah, I have a real hard time believing anything else.