Seantrel Henderson Is The New Brown

The new hotness in recruiting, popularized by Terrelle Pryor in '08 and perfected by Bryce Brown in '09, is for prime blue-chippers to blow off Signing Day entirely in favor of staging a solo pledge at a later, more hyped date. Seantrel Henderson, a Rivals five-star OT out of St. Paul, put his own diabolical twist on the game this year, committing to USC in a primetime ceremony but making it oh-so-clear that he's only signing on the dotted line with the Trojans if they thread the NCAA sanctions gauntlet.

Now, of course, the plot thickens: Henderson's father is straight up admitting USC might not be Seantrel's final destination if things in Los Angeles aren't resolved not only favorably, but with a quickness:

I mean, at the end of the day it’s still a business and at the end of the day it’s still my son’s future. ... I’d rather be able to at least let him keep his options open,  because if things aren’t looking good come the 20th or the 21st [of February] or whatever, then we might have to move in a different direction, but it’s only for the sake of his future.

I like Miami's odds to snatch him up. And it would be only fair, after the 'Canes lost out on Brown last year in a similar will-he-or-won't-he waiting game.