It's supposedly real this time, Loston is cleared and practicing with the team.  The quote I love from The Advocate is this one:

With Loston gaining his eligibility, LSU's entire recruiting class, rated as the nation's best by ESPN.com, is academically eligible.

 I'm not our recruiting guru.  In fact, I sort of hate recruiting and consider it the necessary evil of college football.  However, I truly hate how teams try and game the rankings and just try to win Signing Day, even though many of those big time recruits are never going to show up on campus.  Let's just enjoy that phrase one more time: LSU's entire recruiting class, rated as the nation's best by ESPN.com, is academically eligible.

The full class matters.  Welcome to Baton Rouge, Craig.  Now get to work.