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4* QB Justyn Martin De-Commits from Cal Football
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4* QB Justyn Martin De-Commits from Cal Football

Another Cal football de-commit by a 4* player this month

Piotr Le
Sep 21, 2021
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The hype over a top-tier QB left as quickly as it came. After courting several other FBS programs (Ole Miss, UCLA, and USC) after committing to Cal Justyn decided to re-open his recruitment.

Cal now has 12 commits with no QB commit in the class.

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GoldenBear88
Sep 22, 2021

Cal fans: This is probably the disappointment talking (no alum wants to think that ANYONE couldn't like Berkeley) but the de-commitments of Ott and Martin probably aren't the end of the world. Getting players from the transfer portal is the new reality in college football so there is no reason to believe that we can't find a good QB or RB to take the place of Ott and Martin. In addition, we all know that "the grass is greener somewhere else" doesn't always turn out to be true. Look at Demetrius Robertson. He was on track to be a real stud at Cal and in the Pac-12 but he left for "personal reasons" and spent most of his time at Georgia riding the bench behind a bunch of other talented four and five star studs. Now he is at Auburn trying to get noticed one more time before his eligibility runs out and dealing with the same thing. I know that both Ott and Martin were being intensively recruited by Oregon, UCLA and U$C. But what makes them think that they have a better chance of getting on the field at those places? They may end up experiencing exactly what happened to Robertson when he left. Finally. lets admit the obvious: Cal isn't for everyone. It is a very intense place and you have to be a student AND an athlete. For anyone thinking more about the NFL as opposed to life after football, it can be rough in Berkeley.

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CrouchingNinerHiddenTinyHands
Sep 22, 2021

I never thought I would compare Annapolis to Berkeley because having experienced both the similarities are few and far between (other than the glaringly obvious commonality of making me want to hang myself on Saturdays) but I think the saying "great place to be from, terrible place to be" can now be safely applied to Cal (football at least) as well.

Our program literally has the sex appeal of Louie.

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