I would just like to clarify that JC did not decommit because of the Walton situation. Now the staff may have decided to change their strategy with JC as the Walton situation played itself out but it didn't affect JC one way or another. What made him decommit is because of the staff and what was being said. Now some people may not believe what I'm about to say but this is what it is. I've mentioned before about only taking 2backs and everything that was happening going into August and within that time the staff changed their tone numerous times as to the benefit of playing with 2 others in your class and then the next week say we are only taking 2. This bothered JC a little because he could never get a straight story from the staff collectively. Then after Ice took over the RB position that was the last day Cronkrite had any contact with the staff.
JC decided to see how things played out from there and then his father reached out to the staff on a few occasions about the situation and lack of communication and received mixed signals once again. Then the mother reached out and Friday night one of their coaches replied saying JC hasn't been in response at all, has not posted any of the graphics he had sent him through Twitter and overall he never thought his commitment was ever legit or solid from the beginning.
And that is all JC needed to hear. It hurt him to hear that because UM is his team and where he wanted to be but the staff could never be straight up with him.
I would have liked Cronk in this class. And I think he needs to do whats best for him and don't blame him for walking.
But there is no need to go into who said or didn't say what. Nothing shady about what went down. No bs rumors.
News breaks of Walton reclassifying. Within hours Cronk publicly decommits.
Occam's Razor.