The recruiting sweepstakes for the nation's number one student athlete may not yet be complete.

According to Pete Thamel from the New York Times, he will not be signing his LOI today due to concerns regarding potential sanctions facing USC

According to Henderson’s father, Sean, he will wait until U.S.C. appears before an N.C.A.A. infractions committee from Feb. 19-21 to hear about possible sanctions for the program before deciding whether to sign the letter. Though the Trojans are not likely to hear about any possible sanctions at that time, Sean Henderson said the hearing would give the family a sense of where the process was headed.

We will keep you posted on this story as it develops. Huge HT to our friends at Eleven Warriors:

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[Note by Jeff at the BBC, 02/04/10 12:37 AM EST ] - Here's my take on what just happened....A lot of people are saying "this is JUST NOW coming up in his head?".  Good point.  Odds are pretty good it was a factor in his decision a long time ago, because the kid didn't find out that U$C is under investigation between 530pm and 535pm.

Our SBNation brothers at Conquest Chronicles have posted a thread too, and two readers are blaming it on "OSU recruiters".   Granted, the proprietor of CC is a good guy.  Our accusers are only readers of the site.

First of all, let me just laugh at the thought of USC fans, who have Lane Fucking Kiffin as their head coach, accusing us of tampering.

On that note, which of these two scenarios is the most likely;

1) Seantrel Henderson made his announcement on CBS, and before he could find a fax machine, Jim Tressel took a time machine into the future, then returned with the LA Times from this summer, which had a headline discussing the sanctions that the NCAA placed on USC.  Henderson then decided to hold off on his decision.

or

2) Seantrel Henderson didn't have his mind made up and wanted a few more weeks to decide, but upon seeing that CBS had spent a lot of money to fly his family to NYC, thought it would look pretty bad on his part if he didn't officially announce on live TV.  Under that pressure, he made a choice for the cameras, but later regretted it.

I go with option 2, but I hear that option 1 is popular with the same crowd that believes a plane never struck the Pentagon or that Neil Armstrong was filmed doing his moon thingy in a studio in the Arizona desert.