Never contact ANY potential recruits or you will be in violation of NCAA rules and could get LSU penalized. Seriously. LSU Compliance
obviously, you would want to contact the LSU AD/Compliance Office for the actual and up-to-date rules, but... within the last year I was reading up on NCAA rules regarding this, and there is an exception for friends and family of the recruit. if I recall, the actual rule was: if you have a pre-existing relationship with the recruit, which is defined as a relationship formed before the recruit began high school (or began playing high school football, I forget), then you are exempted from the general booster rules as for what old friends and family of the recruit are allowed to do, my recollection is kinda fuzzy, but I'm thinking they can tell the recruit all the great things about LSU, how much they would love LSU, etc, even if that old friend of family meets the definition of an LSU booster. for example, Peterson, Dickson, Jefferson, etc are free to tell their younger brothers how great LSU is. as for gifts, I think you can buy them reasonably appropriate gifts like anybody would for their old friends or family for birthdays, graduation, weddings, etc. but I don't think Patrick Peterson could do something like give his little brother $100K for his birthday, esp if it was obvious he was only doing so to get his brother to commit to LSU as for regular Joe boosters like typical LSU students, alums, etc that have no pre-existing relationship with the recruit, like Red's link says, you can have them over for dinner if LSU approves it, but I'm not sure if LSU wants approval to be safe, or if that is something required by the NCAA rules
The rules have all changed since I was being recruited by LSU, Bama, Notre Dame, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Michigan, Ohio State, etc....back in the day !!
Apparently Mr. Rettig went 12 for 15 245 yards 2 tds passing .....and only played for the 1st quarter of tonight's game.
In my day, if you were connected, it meant you had friends in high places. I guess that's not the case now, so...don't cast a bag of dicks.
