This is not a repeat. You are not experiencing déjà vu. It's just the next chapter in the ongoing saga that is the Courtship of Gunner Kiel: For the second time in three weeks, the most sought-after quarterback in the 2012 recruiting class has apparently juked his way out of one verbal commitment and into another.
This time, Kiel is ditching LSU for a last-second defection to Notre Dame, according to the Notre Dame Observer, which confirmed an afternoon of rampant speculation with a university staffer on Monday night. Kiel is expected to enroll in South Bend by the end of the week — possibly as soon as Tuesday, the first day of classes for the spring semester — putting him on pace to join a crowded depth chart in spring practice.
The recruiting rumor mill went into red-siren mode Monday when Kiel was nowhere to be found among LSU's crop of early enrollees, but at this rate, the plot remains subject to change at a moment's notice. In August, Kiel initially pledged his loyalty to Indiana, where his brother, Dusty, was a backup quarterback who wound up starting the Hoosiers' first two Big Ten games before being relegated to the bench by an ankle injury over the second half of the season. Gunner Kiel subsequently backed out of his commitment to IU in October, just after big bro left the lineup for good (as of last weekend, Dusty Kiel is no longer a Hoosier, either), and eventually settled on LSU instead on Dec. 27. If it's over — and there is every indication that it is — his stint as a Tiger lasted just 20 days.
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