Pat White and Saban | TigerFan.com

bhelmLSU · Aug 10, 2009

1st time I have heard him discuss his LSU recruitment.

LSU recruited White as an, "athlete," and he knew what that meant. Quarterback wasn't promised. It probably wasn't even on the radar. But when West Virginia began recruiting White only as a quarterback and had a spread offense to custom-fit his skills, LSU changed its tune.

Its coach told White he could play quarterback.

"I didn't think they were being honest," White says.

Its coach also said the previous year's top quarterback recruit, JaMarcus Russell, might not have the brains to play quarterback. Like White, Russell was from the Mobile, Ala., area. He knew Russell.

"I thought, 'If they were going to say that about him to me, what were they going to say about me to a [recruit] a year from now?'" White says. "I just didn't trust what I was being told."
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islstl · Aug 10, 2009

Good stuff.

And true.

BAY0U BENGAL · Aug 11, 2009

But here's the kicker to that story: The LSU coach was Nick Saban, the guy who took lying to a new level a few years later as Dolphins coach.
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That's my favorite part

DRC · Aug 12, 2009

Funny read and true about Saban but how has it hurt him? He is still raking in top players left and right. Recruits don't seem to care about the facts, they just want to hear the lip service. Pat White is a rare exception, not the rule.