TonyStalloni

Well, poop.

So he committed to a group of coaches incapable of winning anything and then decommitted when we brought in the hottest coaching staff in the country, fresh off a 12-0 season and a Coach of the Year award. I get that recruiting is based in personal relationships, but it seems odd that some of these kids aren’t more interested in COMPETING, WINNING, AND CHAMPIONSHIPS. 

You are going to move away from your family for the first time in your life.  As a kid that's a big deal.  To now have everything you know about the place get blown up makes you reconsider - we can say "it's the school not the coaches that you commit to" but that is bunk.  When staff leaves that throws not only the recruit but his family into turmoil.  Mom and dad approved of the guys that spent the last two years visiting and calling.  Now they're gone, but these other guys who have been calling and visiting for 2+ years (A&M coach, though at different school) are still around - our record wasn't great, but the previous staff did a good job getting recruits and their families to buy into being a part of the change.  Kid's now going far away to be with people that he's never gotten to know (who he's maybe never spoken to).  To say these kids that change their minds aren't interested in competing and winning is just ignorant.  They (and they're families) are doing what is best and most comfortable for them.