There are a lot of people who are clutching their pearls over a decommitment. While you hate to see it, a decommit is a normal part of the recruiting cycle.
In some cases, decommits are a team rescinding a scholarship offer when the get a better recruit. Other times, a recruit gets an offered pulled because of academical or legal chall…
There are a lot of people who are clutching their pearls over a decommitment. While you hate to see it, a decommit is a normal part of the recruiting cycle.
In some cases, decommits are a team rescinding a scholarship offer when the get a better recruit. Other times, a recruit gets an offered pulled because of academical or legal challenges. Sometimes, a recruit fail to develop as a senior. Sometimes, it really is what you fear... a kid going to where they think the grass is greener, whether true or not. Cal typically loses only one to three recruits per cycle. So until Cal starts losing recruits at the pace of other Pac-12 schools - then you can relax your grip on your pearls.
SGBear: You are absolutely right. Yes, our current losing streak probably isn't helping but it also seems to me that we have a pretty deep bench at running back. He might be looking somewhere else so he can get immediate playing time. If that is the case, all I can say is beware. The last five-star stud (I know Ott is a four star) who left Cal for greener pastures (Demetrius Robertson) ended up riding the bench at Georgia behind all of the other five and four star studs who were beating him out for playing time. He is now at Auburn trying to live up to the hype (although he did have three touchdowns last week against Alabama State).
There are a lot of people who are clutching their pearls over a decommitment. While you hate to see it, a decommit is a normal part of the recruiting cycle.
In some cases, decommits are a team rescinding a scholarship offer when the get a better recruit. Other times, a recruit gets an offered pulled because of academical or legal challenges. Sometimes, a recruit fail to develop as a senior. Sometimes, it really is what you fear... a kid going to where they think the grass is greener, whether true or not. Cal typically loses only one to three recruits per cycle. So until Cal starts losing recruits at the pace of other Pac-12 schools - then you can relax your grip on your pearls.
https://247sports.com/college/arizona-state/Season/2021-Football/Decommits/
SGBear: You are absolutely right. Yes, our current losing streak probably isn't helping but it also seems to me that we have a pretty deep bench at running back. He might be looking somewhere else so he can get immediate playing time. If that is the case, all I can say is beware. The last five-star stud (I know Ott is a four star) who left Cal for greener pastures (Demetrius Robertson) ended up riding the bench at Georgia behind all of the other five and four star studs who were beating him out for playing time. He is now at Auburn trying to live up to the hype (although he did have three touchdowns last week against Alabama State).