On Tuesday night, Sam Leavitt was caught on the wood at the LSU basketball game chumming it up with Tigers head coach Lane Kiffin.

LSU lined up a $3.5 million NIL offer in its unsuccessful effort to sign former Cincinnati quarterback Brendan Sorsby out of the transfer portal, according to Yahoo Sports' Ross Dellenger.

But before the oil money-backed Red Raiders raised the financial bar, LSU and Kiffin reportedly offered Sorsby a financial package much more in line with the Mensah deal last year, proposing a $3.5 mi...