Tuesday was, by any stretch of the imagination, a silly day on the recruiting trail. We saw flips and commits, but we saw something that had never been done before, even in the hectic NIL era of college football: one player flipped twice in the same day.
We had previously seen 5-star Irmo (SC) EDGE Jaiden Bryant tweet "Geaux Tigers" hours before flipping to the Miami Hurricanes in early June. This was a new one, though. Besides an unbelievable flip that saw Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes land a recruit before promptly losing him, several teams made a major mark on the recruiting trail and kept their recruits. For now, at least.
Here were the headlines from the gridiron on Tuesday:
4-star Mississippi DL uses Colorado as a prop to stay at Ole Miss
Was 4-star Choctaw County defensive lineman Ben'Jarvius Shumaker ever serious about leaving the Ole Miss Rebels? While he was quickly a CU Buff on Tuesday morning, it was quickly "CU Later" to Coach Prime and Boulder, Colorado, and back to Oxford, Mississippi, by dusk.
The flip-back, as Shumaker's homecoming to the Rebs after being "gone" for a few hours could be deemed, had really bad timing. The federal government just took opportunities away from athletes with the five-in-five eligibility ruling, and now this kind of headline could inspire more measures about commitments being binding.
Why couldn't he have an under-the-radar commitment like 4-star Louisville (MS) DL Mitchell Turner, who also stayed home the same day and didn't make it a spectacle that clowns the recruiting process?
LSU flips Houston WR, Alabama surprises with 3-star CB
Alabama nabs 3-star EDGE and 3-star IOL
There was a heartbeat with Kalen DeBoer's 2027 high school class on Tuesday. Sure, the Alabama Crimson Tide have already stacked the deck with young talent over the past few cycles and will probably be more active in the transfer portal next January. Still, it's important to get wins now. Alabama did on Tuesday.
The Crimson Tide brought on 3-star Arab IOL Stafford Willis, a likely guard at the next level, and 3-star Norcross (GA) EDGE Tyler Younger. It was a strong day for Alabama, which hasn't had many of those in building the Tide's 2027 ranks. Even on a strong day, Alabama took a recruiting loss to the Auburn Tigers.
Missouri nabs 4-star IOL, Nebraska edges Tennessee for 3-star IOL
Texas wins 4-star DL and 3-star WR
Like the Crimson Tide, the Texas Longhorns landed two recruits. Unlike Alabama, Texas nabbed a blue-chip recruit and maintained a top-10 ranking in 247Sports' team composite rankings for the 2027 cycle.
The Longhorns kept 3-star Palo Duro receiver Kyron Brown in-state and went to the Sunshine State to take 4-star Palm Beach Central DL Tyler Alexander as the second interior DL and fifth DL overall in the 2027 class.
UGA, South Carolina, Vanderbilt and Mizzou take Ls on the recruiting trail
South Carolina flips 4-star WR from Kentucky
Finally, we have a flip of 4-star Huguenot receiver Iveon Lewis (VA) from the Kentucky Wildcats to the South Carolina Gamecocks. It goes without saying that these are the kinds of recruiting wins Shane Beamer should be having in the midst of his sixth full cycle in charge of the Cocks.
It's a tough loss for Will Stein and Co., but as we know, there's always a chance the pendulum swings the other way. Hell, it could be by tomorrow, the way recruiting is these days.
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