Tinker:
Are you going to go get those guy’s tigers. Or are you going to simply keep letting Bama kick your rear end for another heartbreak college football season.
You lost 11 juniors. That alone will handicap your efforts to overcome Alabama superior experience numbers. Is Zack going to act like a wooden statue. All frustrated in not doing what should be second nature to him by now.
If LSU could only play a smart QB. Who put the football on target. And who keeps moving the football down the field, until the LSU tigers score. That would make up for a lot of the other disadvantages.
I want to see some fire, determination. Come hell or high water. Go over to the state of Alabama - and beat those guys.
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Miles recaps NSD
LSU welcomes 27 newcomers to the fold
By RICHARD FISCHER
Tiger Rag Associate Editor
With 2013 National Signing Day in the books, LSU head coach Les Miles met with the media Wednesday afternoon to recap his signing class.
The coach briefly broke down all 27 of his additions and went into greater detail about some. CLICK HERE for today’s coverage of signing day with all of LSU’s signees listed. Remember that Fehoko Fanaika and Avery Johnson count toward last year’s class when the Tigers signed and retained 23, allowing LSU to go two over the SEC limit of 25 this year.
Everyone committed to LSU signed today except for Tevin Lawson who was reportedely asked to grayshit and Jeremy Cutrer who didn’t make the grades and will enroll in a community college instead. Neither were a surprise.
That left one spot open for four-star defensive end Tashawn Bower to flip his verbal commitment from Auburn to LSU this morning. Funny thing is that the domino effect of Robert Nkemdiche choosing Ole Miss over LSU at 6:45 this morning set events into motion for Bower to fax in his letter of intent to LSU. When Nkemdiche signed with Ole Miss, Rebel DE commitment Elijah Daniel faxed his letter of intent to Auburn rather than Ole Miss, taking the spot reserved for Bower. Long story short, ESPN’s No. 11 defensive end is a nice consolation prize for losing out on the top one.
“This class really fits the needs that this team has and ultimately that’s the most important piece,” said Miles. “I like ‘em. I think they have character and are quality people and I look forward to investing in them. I think they’ll support our team and our school and our community extremely well.”
Here are some things that stood out to me from Miles’ evening meeting with the media.
-Miles quote on Bower flipping to LSU: “I always had a real strong feeling that Tashawn would be a Tiger. It’s the first decision that a young man makes. It’s generally before marriage, and it’s one of those things that it takes some time and frankly, the best guys, they want to make the decision. They don’t want mom and dad necessarily to have a hand. And it takes some time to mull it over and look through it and pick the right school. I always felt like he’d get around to us, and I’m honored to coach him. I think he’ll be a great addition to our team. I think there are things that happen in recruiting that are better left unexplained, and I think he ran into a very awkward situation at best and he did the right thing. He stepped back. He gave it a little more thought, viewed it again. And at that point in time you have the choice to review. He did. I think it really ultimately helped him make the decision to come to LSU…
We really needed the same style of presence that we’ve had there, and he gave us that. I think if you look at the style of men that we had committed, in fact he’s that guy that potentially steps on the field very quickly. I wouldn’t be surprised if he were to play in every game and at some point in time should he continue to improve that he might start. I think that that kind of defense end is just exactly what we needed at the back end [of the recruiting process]. We lost four guys, and we picked up four in this recruiting class. It was a tremendous get for us and a need that this team had to have. I don’t know that I would have felt as good about this class if we had not had Tashawn.”
-Staying on the defensive line, LSU signed a total of seven D-Linemen today. That was big considering the players the Tigers lost this offseason. Bower, Frank Herron, Lewis Neal and M.J. Patterson are ends, and Marquedius Bain, Greg Gilmore and Christian LaCouture will play on the inside. Miles compared Neal to KeKe Mingo without the height, and he was really high on Gilmore.
“A disruptive tackler, a big disruptive force, one of the guys that we frankly looked at that we had to have to replace some of the very talented guys that we’ve had inside.”
-On Gilmore
-LSU signed one of the state’s most coveted prospects in Kendall Beckwith. There has been much discussion about whether the 6-foot-3, 225-pound athlete fits in as an outside linebacker or a defensive end. Miles ended this discussion by calling him a Sam ‘backer today. However, this is certainly subject to change if he grows into his body.
-On John Curtis’ Duke Riley and where the 6-foot-1, 205-pounder may fit in: ”A guy that might well be able to step back and play safety. If not he’ll be a very fast outside linebacker style of guy.”
-The Tigers signed players from 10 states in this signing class as they really spread their wings nationally. Here’s what Miles had to say about LSU (and the SEC) becoming a national brand: “I think the fact that the Tigers are generally on TV in most instances in every game and national televised games for big games I think there’s an understanding that we’ve averaged 10 games, 11 games a year for the last eight [years]. This program is in a position now that people want to know about them. I think that allows a national athlete to really give view of wanting to come play with us and LSU… I think that what’s happening in our conference and the fact that a number of national championships that we’ve won in a row that the national exposure and national champion is described and discussed is usually the SEC that leads the discussion.
I think that that in a profile that we have in our conference in the fact that we went and we’re always in the position to possibly win the west if not be very close on a national scene. I think that allows a national reputation and when we walk in there’s some excitement. There’s a young man out there that says, ‘I want to be challenged. I want to be challenged by the best. I want to play in the biggest conference. I want to play against the finest defensive backs. I want to play against the finest wide receivers. I want to see how good I am.’ And I think in this conference there’s a number of schools that represent that to young people and I think they’re attracted to it.”
-On if he’s confident that WR signee Quantavious Leslie will make the grades to qualify for LSU this fall.
I think that if you realize the off the field issue with Quantavious Leslie in the fall, you kinda understand. So we’ve kinda followed him since the semester started and it appears that he’s done really well and not only is he doing well but he has a real nice structure to his day and we would expect him to finish.”
It is unclear what issue’s he’s referring to, but you can be sure we’ll find out.
-LSU didn’t have a running back in its 2013 class, but Miles gave a not-to-subtle hint that he’s gunning for one of the best running backs to come out of Louisiana in a while - maybe ever - in the 2014 class in the form of St. Aug’s Leonard Fournette.
“I like where we’re at at tailback. I think we have a number that’ll fit our needs for this fall. I think we’ll have to recruit a great tailback to come forward if you look at what will need, we will need a great, one of those guys that has great speed and ball skills and can run with power. I’m thinking of him right now.”
-Miles was asked if he may make any changes to his staff before next season. He responded: “I haven’t given much thought to changes on this staff at this point. I just got done with a tremendous recruiting season. I thought the staff to a man did a great job. I thought we did as much team recruiting as we’ve ever done. John Chavis involved with all the defensive players and Stud was involved with not geographically his area but really ran to be involved with offensive linemen across the country and I think that this staff did a great job. Frank Wilson is invaluable - just a tremendous communicator and a guy that makes himself understood to both prospects and parents but I think he also helps the organization of the recruiting and I think this staff is in many ways a staff class.”
That certainly wasn’t a no and leaves the door open.
-On one final note, here’s what Miles had to say about U-High defensive end Tim Williams literally leaving LSU’s campus to attend Alabama this fall: “The only thing I can tell you is that we recruited him well. We received him and he of us. Staying at home’s not for everybody. We wish him well. We think he’s a very talented player. Like I said, staying home at LSU’s not for everybody.”
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No Responses to “Miles recaps NSD”Tinker: Chasing Nick Saban reputation must be old hat for the mad hatter “Les Miles” in college football. Because the recruiting cat is out of the bag now. All of the college football fans have seen the results of Nick Saban Alabama success. So the recruiting chase is on. Flying into the danger zone…Where going along to just get along, will not make it. I feel the need for speed!? http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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- Norma:
I have been thinking about the future of LSU football and I have thought that perhaps we are looking at this a little wrong. Did the LSU football season go wrong because the coaches called the wrong play or maybe the players are not able to execute the play that was called. Now granted either way this is a coaching problem. Are the coaches not recruiting the right players, or maybe the coaches are not able to get their vision across to the player? It is obvious that Miles is not going to change the offensive coaches, so what to do? The QB Zack did not catch on until late in the season, but the secondary defense did not improve either. We could not depend on the running game. So in the end we were lucky to win the 10 games that we did win.
It still gets back to the coaches, they must do a better job of recruiting the smart players that will buy into their football theory of course they must have the skills to go along with that. I thing the QB of Bama is a good example, he is similar to a Matt Flynn, not to skilled but understands the Saban game plan. LSU needs more key players that will buy into the Miles Plan, what ever that is.
I mean please we are just talking football not brain surgery.
All these so called top recruits mean nothing if they can’t make the play work, I don’t care how many stars they have, if they are not disciplined, smart, and athletic then they are going to be lost.
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Tinker:
Absolutely dead-on ( Norma) in your viewpoint of what the LSU fighting tiger football team must do. In order to become a very successful college football program. At the level of being the best college football team playing that game today. Apparently knowing what they want to do is much different for them, then for them to know how to get there. But in any case the football is in their arms. If Les Miles does not run to the finish line soon. He is going to be left far behind in the highly competitive SEC.
I agree completely in what you have said!
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Anybody know Coach Miles personally/talk to him? (Posted on 2/6/13 at 10:17 p.m.)
Just curious if he always talks the way he does when he is on camera. Like at dinner time is it "Kathy this meal looks like it was made from quality ingredient and we look forward for the opportunity to secure the dishes afterwards."
Or you know something to that effect.
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Rabalais: LSU flexes its recruiting muscle
by Scott Rabalais
Advocate sportswriter
February 07, 2013
Advocate sportswriter
February 07, 2013
There was no reason for signing day sulking Wednesday at LSU. No
reason to question anyone’s chest. Only one reason, within reason, for
gray clouds to slide across the Baton Rouge sky and spit rain down on
the Bayou Bash Recruiting Party, and even that disappointment was a bit
like worrying about the taxes when holding a $30 million lottery ticket.
What a difference a year makes in recruiting. You have to look no farther than Ole Miss to know that. Of course, the amount of bounceback in the Rebels’ rubber band allowed a lot more room for travel than LSU.
Maybe it would be better to wonder what a difference recruiting can make in a year. Because the kind of recruiting class LSU captured Wednesday could be the cool front that finally blows away the clouds that was LSU football circa 2012.
The entire year was a dull, gray downer, the kind of year that makes people question LSU’s worth as a national player. Wednesday, LSU pulled in the kind of class that gives you a chance to be that, or certainly to earn a spot in the four-team playoff that’s now less than two years from launch.
It won’t be easy. Not in the Southeastern Conference. All four major recruiting services had some combination of six — SIX — SEC teams in its roll call of top-10 recruiting classes. All 14 SEC teams shoehorned their way into the final ESPN top 40.
This year, it’s the addition of Texas A&M and the sudden, somewhat dubious rise of Ole Miss with the kind of talent haul — at least for a year — that the LSUs and Alabamas are used to.
Alabama was the constant, ranked No. 1 according to ESPN, Rivals and 24/7. Ole Miss was the fashion. LSU? The Tigers brought a grinding relentlessness to the class and came away with a list of 27 names that ranks fifth, sixth, sixth and seventh.
True, the Tigers lost out to Ole Miss for the nation’s No. 1, Robert Nkemdiche. But it wasn’t because LSU didn’t do a good job of recruiting Robert. It just didn’t have the foresight to recruit his older brother, Denzel, a linebacker of considerably more modest talents.
But LSU pried away another prized defensive lineman, Tashawn Bower, from Auburn and Florida on a final day of recruiting gymnastics. Bower is no Nkemdiche, but like virtually all of LSU’s class he’s a solid, talented, across-the-board four star who helps fill an urgent — shall we say desperate? — need at defensive end.
LSU filled all of its needs Wednesday, save a true safety. LSU has long tried to convert Tempe, Ariz., safety Priest Willis to the religion of Tiger football, but he appears UCLA bound. LSU was probably done for this recruiting cycle.
Despite questions at home of LSU’s continued standing as a football Goliath, it’s a class that is a prime example of LSU’s continued nationwide brand, according to ESPN recruiting analyst Jeremy Crabtree.
“You’re talking Ohio State, Notre Dame, Alabama, LSU,” Crabtree said. “You can count them on one hand, the programs that truly have that national recruiting lure.”
LSU dangled that lure over and over again this recruiting season and got plenty of top notch recruits to bite.
It could be a portent of a better year to come.
What a difference a year makes in recruiting. You have to look no farther than Ole Miss to know that. Of course, the amount of bounceback in the Rebels’ rubber band allowed a lot more room for travel than LSU.
Maybe it would be better to wonder what a difference recruiting can make in a year. Because the kind of recruiting class LSU captured Wednesday could be the cool front that finally blows away the clouds that was LSU football circa 2012.
The entire year was a dull, gray downer, the kind of year that makes people question LSU’s worth as a national player. Wednesday, LSU pulled in the kind of class that gives you a chance to be that, or certainly to earn a spot in the four-team playoff that’s now less than two years from launch.
It won’t be easy. Not in the Southeastern Conference. All four major recruiting services had some combination of six — SIX — SEC teams in its roll call of top-10 recruiting classes. All 14 SEC teams shoehorned their way into the final ESPN top 40.
This year, it’s the addition of Texas A&M and the sudden, somewhat dubious rise of Ole Miss with the kind of talent haul — at least for a year — that the LSUs and Alabamas are used to.
Alabama was the constant, ranked No. 1 according to ESPN, Rivals and 24/7. Ole Miss was the fashion. LSU? The Tigers brought a grinding relentlessness to the class and came away with a list of 27 names that ranks fifth, sixth, sixth and seventh.
True, the Tigers lost out to Ole Miss for the nation’s No. 1, Robert Nkemdiche. But it wasn’t because LSU didn’t do a good job of recruiting Robert. It just didn’t have the foresight to recruit his older brother, Denzel, a linebacker of considerably more modest talents.
But LSU pried away another prized defensive lineman, Tashawn Bower, from Auburn and Florida on a final day of recruiting gymnastics. Bower is no Nkemdiche, but like virtually all of LSU’s class he’s a solid, talented, across-the-board four star who helps fill an urgent — shall we say desperate? — need at defensive end.
LSU filled all of its needs Wednesday, save a true safety. LSU has long tried to convert Tempe, Ariz., safety Priest Willis to the religion of Tiger football, but he appears UCLA bound. LSU was probably done for this recruiting cycle.
Despite questions at home of LSU’s continued standing as a football Goliath, it’s a class that is a prime example of LSU’s continued nationwide brand, according to ESPN recruiting analyst Jeremy Crabtree.
“You’re talking Ohio State, Notre Dame, Alabama, LSU,” Crabtree said. “You can count them on one hand, the programs that truly have that national recruiting lure.”
LSU dangled that lure over and over again this recruiting season and got plenty of top notch recruits to bite.
It could be a portent of a better year to come.
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Dandy Don's LSU Sports Report
Good morning, Tiger Fans. It was nice meeting and speaking to so many of you at the Recruiting Bash.
Yesterday was a great day for LSU football as the Tigers put together a very strong signing class by holding on to all of their commitments and adding a big-time prospect in DE Tashawn Bower. In all, LSU signed 19 players to go along with the eight early enrollees they already had, bringing the class total to 27. The only two LSU commitments who didn't sign were Jeremy Cutrer (DB, 6'2", 180, Jewel Sumner) and Tevin Lawson (DT, 6'4", 285, Denham Springs), but that came as no surprise. As I reported a few days ago, both were expected to be academic casualties as Cutrer didn’t have the grades and will have to go the JUCO route, and Lawson had a problem with getting a couple of his class credits to qualify.
There are a lot of things that I really like about this LSU signing class. First, it did a great job of meeting the team’s primary needs for linemen by bringing in seven on defense and five on offense. In Coach Miles’ press conference yesterday, he said, “this might be the best five-man offensive line class that we’ve had.” The group on the defensive side is extremely strong as well, and was bolstered by the addition of defensive end Tashawn Bower of Somerville, New Jersey. Another thing I like about the class is that it includes 12 players from the state of Louisiana, including every one of the top-10 on my list, plus 15 highly recruited players from 10 other states. Being able to secure all of the state’s top talent and attract players from as far as California and New Jersey speaks very highly of Les Miles and this LSU football program.
I did hear from a few of you who are concerned that LSU did not sign anyone from Texas this year, especially since it's A&M’s first year in the SEC, but I don’t find that overly concerning. LSU could have taken a commitment from running back Adam Taylor of Katy, TX who really wanted to be a Tiger, but passed on him and decided not to take a running back in this class since the state will be loaded with tailbacks in 2014 like never before, the greatest of which being Leonard Fournette of St. Augustine who is No. 1 on my list of Top LA Football Prospects for 2014. Really, the only player from Texas that LSU wanted but lost to A&M was Rickey Seals Jones. Also, LSU did get Christian LaCouture, a guy who grew up in Texas and was at one time committed to A&M before flipping to Nebraska. It was only after he flipped to Nebraska that he transferred to Lincoln Southwest to finish high school.
Just like last year, I'm conducting a poll today asking you “Which incoming LSU football signee(s) will make the biggest impact in the 2013 season?” Last night, I reviewed the results of last year's poll, and I think you'll find it interesting. When I posed the same question about the 2012 class, the two players who received the highest votes were Kwon Alexander (22.16%) and Avery Johnson (21.05%). As most of you know, Alexander broke an ankle against Florida after playing in the first six games, while Avery Johnson was not able to join the team because of academics and had to wait until this year to enroll. In the poll, you can vote for more than one player, but you can only vote once. Please click here to vote now.
Below is an analysis of the of this year's signing class, including comments and quotes from Coach Les Miles, as provided by LSU's Sports Information Department:
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Rise and sign: Kendell Beckwith’s signing day
Home, family and a filly named Spirit helped Kendell Beckwith sign with LSU
by Matthew Harris
Advocate sportswriter
February 07, 2013
Advocate sportswriter
February 07, 2013
Urhonda grinned, glancing over at her son, linebacker Kendell Beckwith, the top prospect in Louisiana. She tilted her phone to show him the caller: LSU recruiting coordinator Frank Wilson. At 8:14 a.m. on National Signing Day, Wilson wanted to know where Beckwith’s signature was.
Instead of answering, Urhonda handed the phone to Kendell, who swiped his thumb across the screen and raised it to his ear.
“What’s up, Old School?” Beckwith asked.
Thirty seconds of silence followed, and Beckwith’s smirk flattened. Wilson, long considered one of the nation’s best recruiters, was curious as to the hold-up.
Beckwith’s presence in the gym was the best answer. He’d been sitting behind a desk for an hour, watching highlights of his teammates. Now, pulling the phone away, Kendell handed it over to Urhonda, who took her turn pacing and listening intently to Wilson.
“We’re going to get it in to you,” Urhonda said.
Kendell, clad in khakis, a white shirt and gold tie under a purple sweater-vest, propped himself against the wall. He glanced over to his father, Wendell Beckwith, who could only shake his head as he filled in the door frame to the gym.
As it turned out, Wilson’s nudging call was for the sake of viewers on ESPN, which had Holly Rowe at LSU’s Football Operations Center, embedded with coach Les Miles’ staff as his recruiting class filled out.
“He said they’re on TV right now waiting,” Kendell said to his father.
“Are you serious?” Wendell answered.
For Kendell Beckwith, who selected LSU over Alabama on Jan. 4, his morning unfolded with an easy routine. He fed his horse. He got dressed. He needled his younger brother. Eventually, he made his decision official.
“I try to be low key. I’m not for all the attention too much,” Beckwith said. “I ain’t ever been that type of guy.”
Quiet morning
Two hours earlier, Urhonda stepped out of the kitchen, turned left and softly knocked three times on the door to wake Kendell for his chief morning chore: feeding his filly, Spirit.Turning into the serpentine driveway toward the Beckwiths’ home, a glimpse to the left shows a silvery white creature illuminated in early dawn, behind wire fence. Tending to Spirit is a welcome pastime.
“I just grew up loving them from birth,” he said, referring to horses. “I couldn’t even tell you when it really started.
Beckwith shuffled into the kitchen in black Nike slip-on sandals, black shocks, gray sweatpants and a purple longsleeve LSU shirt. He pulled open the back door and crossed the carport to a small garage behind the house.
A minute later, Beckwith efficiently prepared Spirit’s morning meal. He grabbed a dark green bucket and set it next to small bales of hay. Twenty yards away, Spirit let out a neigh, sensing chowtime. Next, Kendell poured in enough feed to line the bottom, then pulled two fistfuls of hay from the bale and laid them in the bucket.
“We let her out, but she don’t go nowhere,” Kendell said later. “She just hangs around the house. Every time I go outside, she comes up to me and I just feed her a peppermint or an apple.”
Quietly, he shuffled up the gravel driveway to a bin near the corner of the fenced pen, slowly pouring Spirit’s meal into a half-circle container.He didn’t talk to her. He only watched her take the first couple of chomps to get started before he spun on his heel and trudged back to the house, dropping off the bucket along the way.
Odd as it sounds in hindsight, Spirit was a major hint that Beckwith probably wouldn’t venture four or five hours away to Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Alabama or LSU?
Ten months ago, Beckwith was leaning toward the Crimson Tide.“They’ve got a certain track, and they’ll hold you to that,” Beckwith said of Nick Saban and his fabled process. “If you do that, you’ll almost put yourself in a position to be in the NFL.”
The recruitment of Kendell took on the same meaning: Losing the state’s best recruit would put a serious dent in the notion that Miles & Co. had erected a fence around the talent-rich state, particularly along Interstate 10 corridor. By last summer, Kendell admitted he was conflicted after attending each team’s individual camps in June.
Yet Wendell professed to have early insight into his son’s ultimate choice: deciding to breed Spirit. With a foal slated to arrive in May, Wendell couldn’t see his middle son venturing off to Alabama and leaving behind his chief responsibility.
“You ain’t got nothing to worry about,” Wendell recalled telling LSU defensive coordinator John Chavis this summer.
Despite Alabama’s early allure, Kendell slowly gravitated back toward LSU, growing comfortable with the idea of playing linebacker in Chavis’ 4-3 defense, the fact he could study forestry as part of the school’s agriculture program and the 45-minute drive from Clinton.
“It was a good visit (to Alabama), but it just wasn’t for me,” Beckwith said. “Four hours wasn’t really that bad, but I’ve got one an hour away. They’re basically the same schools, similar programs, but just different styles.”
‘We have a problem’
At 8:20 a.m. Wednesday, though, there was the small matter of binding Kendell to LSU for the next four years.Filing into the main office, Wendell settled into a folding chair near the door. Kendell sat on an old desk near the faculty mailboxes. Urhonda and Anderson were close in tow, shuffling through papers for the Beckwith clan to sign.
“You have your copies?”
Anderson asked Urhonda.
Urhonda paused. She furrowed her brow and pondered the question before the potentially groan-inducing answer spilled out. She sighed.
“I left it at the house,” she said.
Wendell chuckled, and Kendell drooped his head before frowning. It’s a 40-minute round trip. And, seemingly on cue, Urhonda’s phone rang again. It was Frank Wilson.
“Coach, we have a problem,” Urhonda told him. “Could you fax or email some blank scholarship papers?”
Hanging up, Urhonda told Anderson they need to go grab the letter of intent, scholarship agreement and other papers off her email as an attachment.
“They’re going to be so mad at you,” Kendell said, needling his mother. Urhonda shot back with a stare.
Earlier in the morning, though, Urhonda doted on her son.
Standing in the middle of his bedroom, Beckwith finished stuffing his shirttail into a pair of khakis. Beckwith adjusted his tie, then pulled on a purple sweater-vest, an LSU logo on the left breast.
The process of selecting shoes consumed the next 10 minutes, drawing critiques from Urhonda and Justin. This is no small matter, because Beckwith is a self-admitted sneaker-head whose closet is filled top-to-bottom with orange Nike shoeboxes.
He emerged with the boat shoes.
“That looks nice,” Urhonda said of the throwback basketball shoe.
Making it official
In the main office at East Feliciana High, Anderson finally handed Kendell his paperwork.Getting to that point was a pain.
First, the printer in his own office didn’t work. Neither did a second one in the office, and the printer necessary for copies ran low on ink. However, the paper was legible enough to read, grasp and sign.
“Is it time to sign?” Kendell asked his coach.
“Yeah, it is,” Anderson answered.
“I changed my mind,” Kendell joked. Then he took the blue Bic pen in his right hand.
This gag wasn’t too far off from one he pulled on his parents a week before playing in the Under Armor All-America Game, where he assembled the entire family — including brother Wendell Beckwith, who was home from Tulane — to let them know his ultimate decision.
“At first, I told them it was Alabama,” Beckwith said, “just to see how they reacted.”
The bit failed, and Kendell quickly came clean: He was staying put and heading to
Baton Rouge.
Wednesday morning, Kendell knelt over each piece of paper and signed deliberately. First, the scholarship agreement. Second, a document from the SEC attesting to a grant-in-aid being awarded. And finally, his letter of intent.
“It’s like you’re about to buy a house,” Linda Wicker, the office secretary cracked.
“Close to it,” Urhonda said.
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