LSU Faces Sanctions After Recruit Doesn't Enroll: Latest Details, Reaction
LSU football has long been among the top recruiting powers in the country, but head coach Les Miles and Co. will be limited by newly revealed sanctions.
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Miles Comments on Sanctions
Monday, March 9
Miles commented on the sanctions levied against LSU and acknowledged, "I don't know how it could have been done differently." Jim Kleinpeter of NOLA.com passed along the quote:
"We look at the NCAA and we try to do exactly what is supposed to be done. We're imperfect. That being said I don't know how it could have been done any differently. We signed a guy who committed to us to come to us. Then he decided, really in his home, that he was thinking about not taking the English course that was going to allow him to come early to LSU. At that point in time, we went back to our compliance officers and they said cease and desist on recruiting him any more. We couldn't even call, and/or recruit the guy.
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LSU Penalized for Recruiting Violations
Thursday, Feb. 26
According to Ross Dellenger of The Advocate, LSU is being punished due to a recruit's decision to decommit from the program:
Per Dellenger, LSU has been stripped of the ability to sign early enrollee recruits to financial-aid agreements for two years, and it has also been docked 10 percent of its recruiting evaluation days in 2015.
The punishment stems from a situation that saw a recruit sign a financial-aid agreement with the school before ultimately opting against attending LSU. Although the recruit hasn't been definitively identified, Dellenger reports that Alabama offensive tackle commit Matt Womack is likely the prospect in question.
While Womack's decision was essentially out of LSU's control, the football program will have to pay the price for it since financial-aid agreements provide schools with relaxed recruiting rules, according to Dellenger.
LSU was seemingly attempting to do Womack a service by allowing him to begin his education early, but that move ultimately backfired.
One can only assume the Tigers are not particularly happy with the decision, and it will be interesting to see if public perception of the punishment leads to any rule modifications moving forward.
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