News 2014 DE/OLB Sharieff Rhaheed De-Commits from LSU (impregnates his 14 year old cousin)

Not if the coaches are upfront about it and most are. Many early commitments are conditional upon grades, conduct, and performance. Recruits also know the numbers games and realize that all schools over-offer and an early commitment could be withdrawn. Recruits also exploit this. Many of them "collect offers" and flirt with several schools just to increase their visibility. Even if LSU withdraws an offer, the recruit's perceived value can increase because of LSU's interest and help him get another good school. Recruits and coaches play this game a lot.

 

I know how you feel. I get upset when we pull an offer very close to signing day, giving a kid few options to market himself. Dumping Deangelo Benton on the day before signing day in order to placate Reuben Randall and get his signature was ugly. But failing to upgrade a conditional offer in the summer gives a recruit plenty of time to find a home.

It's sort of a dance for players on the borderline of SEC-caliber talent. They accept early conditional offers from a big school who are trying to keep an option on the fellow and keep him away from a second-tier school. If the roster fills up, he might be let go . . . or he might stick and get to sign with the big school. Or perhaps get a grayshirt offer and sign the next year. The coach must get the best 25 players that he can to compete with other schools doing the same thing. He has litttle choice but to over-offer and try to work things out the best he can.

LSU has had only one signee that publicly complained about being grayshirted and transferred. But he's the starting center at LSU today.

 

In this case the staff knew he wasn't really committed to LSU like most of the boards have been talking about over the last couple of months. LSU didn't take the offer or commitment off the table.

 

I might be in the minority here but I am all for pulling scholarship offers. Many different situations... If a kid gets an offer then slacks in school or off the field then the conditional offer has to be pulled. Staffs also have to offer more prospects than they have room for because recruiting is a numbers game just like in real life situations like job searches. If you need 2 rbs and only offer 2 then you are going to be left in the dark most of the time. Also in the same case if you need 2 RBs and you have 1 or 2 already committed you must continue to recruit others because as we have seen commitments mean almost nothing and these prospects are entertaining other schools like the schools are entertaing other prospects.

 

Sharieff Rhaheed1?5?? @reef_15
Just talked to #LSU coach's about what happened and were we go from here. And #LSU is back in the mix and at the top of the list


The kid now lists LSU at the top of his list.

So who knows.

I think he might be a backup plan if we fail on other prospects, but ultimately I think we get our guys and he ends up at Louisville.