Regrettably, the recruiting process is not fair; in most cases, it is disproportionatley weighted in favor of the recruiter. The "recruiters" hold more cards than you, the "recruitee" (there are some exceptions, everyone who has been through this process knows this). The recruiters shuffle their "cards" constantly, and you, the shuffled "recruitee," never know when you will hit the discard pile. You are often left to deduce this harsh reality by circumstantial evidence. A "recruiting letter" from a program, particularly one like LSU, is worth less,IMHO (but educated opinion), than the cost of the postage...even though the cost of postage keeps going up.