JCT wrote:
swellafelon wrote:
I think Smart made his intentions perfectly clear when he elected not to sign his LOI today at the signing ceremony at Sunrise, where 7 of his teammates honored their verbal commitments by signing with their respective schools.
His intention is to jilt Loyola, reopen his recruitment, showcase his talent at Sunrise, then wait for the high majors to come calling next spring with offers. No doubt either his college-bound teammates (or one or more of the college coaches who signed them) had Smart's ear the past couple months trying to pry him away from the Ramblers. If WSU wasn't already scholarship-overcommitted, I'd suspect Gregg Marshall with the tampering.

I'm still holding out hope that he signs, but I have a horrendous feeling about Sunrise. WSU is literally the only school within miles of that place. The Hamilton kid was on WSU's campus this summer. I have no idea if he technically enrolled at WSU, but his twitter profile picture for a good chunk of the summer was of himself in a WSU jersey on team picture day. And then when WSU just happens to be over the scholarship limit, he's stashed at that school. I would avoid words like tampering because it technically isn't illegal to recruit kids with verbal commitments, but I think WSU is not an "completely clean" program.