re: #1 QB Gunner Kiel to commit to LSU

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The thing you notice off the bat when you watch Kiel on film is how much of a timing driven read option offense he plays in and its wide open spread the closest comparison I can make is to Holgorsen O at WVU, so to me it is a lot harder to evals his talent than say a Jameis Winston or even Mettenberger when he was in HS and ran a much more traditional O with a solid run game etc.

I find it funny though this year that LSU might end up with the shotgun type pocket passer that usually goes to Bama and Bama will likely end up with the dual threat guy the type LSU has been known to sign, fwiw though I think Jameis is a much better passer at this point than any dual threat guys LSU or Bama has had for that matter in the past decade. He is a monster, took a perenially terrible HS team to the state Champ game, he is the real deal.

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Checked around last night and this morning, and Gunner truly doesn't know where he wants to go yet. He's trying to make an informed decision, and he's keeping in touch with the coaching staffs at Notre Dame, LSU and Vanderbilt. He's not leading anyone on. I don't know when a final decision is going to come because Gunner doesn't. He is still working through things with his parents and family. Weighing all of his options. He's not picking what he wants for dinner or what he wants to do this weekend, he's picking a school. Anything you've read on any site about a pending commitment to one of these three schools is completely false. Those folks cannot be considered credible. Kiel is not planning an elaborate announcement. Once he knows where he's headed, he'll commit. As far as my gut feeling on where he's headed, I think ND and LSU are even at the top. However, that's my gut talking and balancing the facts as I've heard them. He's not a lock or lean to any school at this point.

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But I don't want a player who's family demanded we pull another kid's scholarship

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I also am not a big fan of Kiel as a prospect and never have been aside from his mental preparation for the game. The analysts either see something I don't or they are really selling bs for a living. He's got talent for sure but he just doesn't impress me and I hate the comp he plays. I'll take him though because of the possibility that he's as good as the analysts say he is and because I like the qbs we already have.

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