re: If I was a HS Senior in Louisiana and wanted to play football out of state

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It's always about how the player handles the recruiting process determined whether there is disdain or disappointment towards the player leaving the state

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I wouldn't say always. It is often times about how the LSU media covering recruiting positions the recruitment to its subscribers/readers and how those people view the recruitment. You always here these "he gave our staff a private commitment" or "he's told our staff he's in so we didn't recruit anyone else". Often that's just fan created rumors or those at Rivals, 24/7, etc trying to cover their tracks for why they were wrong. They protect themselves from scorn and have it shifted to the kid. Just admit you didn't know the inside details as well as you thought and the kid went elsewhere.

Also, you often have coaches who feed those covering recruiting certain info so that they'll report on it thus creating in-state pressure on a kid based on the belief that he's already committed (happens in MS and LA a lot).