He could have waited until Saturday's spring scrimmage and been a big headline surrounding that carnival. But why?
The way Omaha North guard Michael Decker figured it, he had already waited long enough to commit to the Huskers. No need for flash from a guy most comfortable doing work in a hard hat.
"I felt like I made my decision a while ago and was making my decision harder than it needed to be," he said.
And so, on Wednesday, Decker put his hand to the air and became Nebraska's eighth commit of this class. He is the first in-state pledge of the recruiting cycle, and the first recruit out of Omaha since fullback C.J. Zimmerer in 2009.
Don't call this a slam-dunk recruit, because it wasn't quite that.
Decker's family comes from Michigan, and it was the Wolverines who he really liked when he began to think of where he might go to school.
He thought about Iowa a little. Also Ohio, UCLA, and Kansas State, which was the other school besides Nebraska that had extended an offer.
But after proper time to process it all, Decker came to a conclusion: "Nebraska was the best choice because they wanted me the most and I wanted them."