Sam Spiegelman

And LSU wasn't even in the picture a few weeks ago, and suddenly here they are surging.

And he even said it when he was talking to rivals in Sam Spiegelman this week.

He said, after I left LSU, I realized, like, if I'm looking at it from – 10 years and every quarterback that's come through LSU, Joe Burrow, Jane Daniels, those guys are my goals.

It's funny, you and I and anybody else listening that's over the age of 17 would not be saying that.

I, yeah, I don't, I don't think it was because of Lombardi.

Um, I think that, well, with Braden Booth, and, um, Sam Spiegelman has, has reported on this, he's just having second thoughts about the distance.

You know, and he has schools like Baylor and, and, and a couple other schools that are much closer that, um, that, that are kind of knocking on his door.

He's one who had in- initially planned on going to the North Carolina-Notre Dame game, but as soon it w- as it was, uh, uh, announced as a, as a noon game, just couldn't make it happen.

Chance, good morning.

I didn't believe it when Sam said he would be 100% by game time.

He looked pretty healthy.

That was positive anyway.

It was.

The fact that he ran as much as he did, ran 15 times in that game, um, against Kentucky.

Uh, ran in the two-point conversion, certainly looked like Sam.

But I think the more encouraging thing is despite the fact that he ran 15 times, he still completed 74% of his passes.

Um, and as a Texas commit, he's in Baton Rouge watching the Clemson game, LSU wins convincingly, and then Florida being his third team, uh, he was down in Gainesville this past weekend, so they handily beat Ole Miss, uh, in what was his first game day trip there, um, of the Sumrall era and, you know, the transition they've made from Napier to this new staff and, uh, coming from Tulane obviously, uh, Sumrall, uh, knows exactly what the lay of the land is there in New Orleans, who Royal was and is, and they've really ramped up their efforts.

So Easton now says a look in the near future probably, tells Sam Spiegelman here at Rivals that soon he'll make a final decision as a committed prospect.

So I'm not sure if that bodes well for the home team, uh, relative to his current commitment, Texas, I don't think it sticks, Glenn.

And I think this is one at some point, um, that he does announce that he's reopening things or is, that he's flipping maybe simultaneously.

That means here over the first month of the season, he visited Baton Rouge for LSU Clemson, he was in Austin for Texas Ohio State, and he was in Gainesville for Ole Miss against Florida.

So he has been at the three biggest games for his three finalists and, uh, he told On3, uh, Sam Spiegelman, that he is ready to make a decision, and it could come any day.

We had a chance to visit with Shea Dixon from On3 The Bengal Tiger, as we do each week, who gave us the final word on what we need to know here about Easton Royal before that decision comes down.

Coming out of Brother Martin, number one receiver in the country, uh, obviously number one player in Louisiana, uh, but number three overall, Matt.

I'm gonna think, mull it over here." I know his mom is someone he leans on a lot in this process, and they're gonna go from there.

And look, I can remember when we talked back in the summer when we had kind of had our ear to the ground on things.

Sam Spiegelman at Rivals and myself were both hearing, "Hey, it could be October, like, when a final decision comes." And that kind of felt random.

Like, well, then why wouldn't you just wait till December or do it now? But now I've seen, okay, he's indeed made visits to all three schools again, already made official visits, and I don't know if we're looking at a week or two here before maybe he says something.

Is that right? Yes.

Sam Spiegelman issued a prediction from rivals.

As bad as things look, the one thing that is true is that Oklahoma's playing some good defense, and they continue to attract top defensive talent.

So I don't think all hope is lost, though I understand Sooner fans are pretty down in the dumps right now.