In watching the way recruiting is going and seeing the way kids act in todays recruiting it just looks like dirty business from both sides. The teams and the players both play dirty. You have kids committed taking other visits and playing both sides. You have teams playing borderline kids in case others back out on them. The days of giving your word from both sides seems dependent on whether as a player or team you think you can do better. Looking at this Maryland Player and seeing the pimping around even though he is committed to a school. It is such a game. Lying, cheating, stealing and all is good and fair in recruiting. The whole process should be cleaned up. If you commit then you cant take other official visits. If a team makes an offer and you accept then they must honor the scholarship. I am not saying LSU either benefits or is hurt more or less than any other team but just would like to see the process clarified. Lets face it the big schools and the best players have all the power. There will always be some who abuse it on either side. In doing some reading on Cate he thinks LSU jerked him around. Dont know if that is true but you really have to wonder LSU's side of the story. Glad i dont have to base my future on high school kids and the decisions they make.
http://www.tigerforums.com/showthread.php?t=31863 The recruiting process is already cleaned up. Once you officially commit, you can't make any more visits & can't go to another school without sitting out a year. These are nothing but "soft verbal" agreements between coaches & players, which both sides have the right to terminate it at any time. As I stated in the other thread, the only point of them is to give the fans something to read about & if they didn't exist on paper, they'd still exist in reality where players told coaches that there program is where they wanted to go.
