They call it Crootin’ for a reason. College football recruiting never sleeps and I mean that that literally and figuratively. LSU took their recruiting efforts a little too far with a prospective recruit and has been hit with some minor sanctions by the SEC for their efforts.
LSU says its football program has been penalized by the Southeastern Conference because coaches communicated too frequently with a recruit who had signed a financial aid agreement, but later decided to play elsewhere.
NCAA rules allow coaches more leeway to contact recruits who have submitted financial aid forms, but coaches are deemed retroactively in violation if such recruits decide to enroll at another school.
LSU spokesman Michael Bonnette says the Tigers received a two-year ban on offering financial aid agreements to freshmen enrolling in the spring semester — called early enrollees. Also, coaches will have the number of days they can evaluate recruits cut by 10 percent in 2015.
Bonnette says LSU informed the SEC of the violations, which were first reported Thursday by The Advocate of Baton Rouge.
Well they say it is never over until the ink is dry on the letter of intent or until the recruit enrolls into school for early enrollees. Some schools absolutely refuse to give up on recruiting a kid until it is all said and done, and sometimes it pays off, but in this case LSU got caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
