Sure he didn’t quit. And sure neither is a victim. But it was in his contract that if he left he would not finish. Lane agreed to that. I have issue with the semantics of “offered to stay”. The way he dragged this out suggests to me that he was leveraging himself so he could stay if he wanted to. And if he actually did give his coaches an ultimatum then that sounds more like a threat than an “offered” to stay.
I truly thought he didn’t know what he wanted to do but I now feel he has known for awhile that he was going to LSU. Knowing that he wouldn’t be able to finish the season per his contract, he dragged it out for leverage to stay if they made the playoffs.