This sort of stuff happens all the time at this level of college football, and it most certainly will not be the last time it occurs either. Incoming Georgia Tech defensive end Anree Saint-Armour explained he lost a chance to go to Ohio State when the offer that was extended to him was later pulled.
“Missouri was leading as my senior season started,” Saint-Armour told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Then more offers started coming in. Then it was Ohio State for a little bit until that offer went away because somebody else committed there.”
Ohio State added four defensive ends in the Class of 2015. Two four-star players (Jashon Cornell and Dre’Mont Jones) and two three-star recruits (Joshua Alabi and Rashod Berry) were part of Ohio State’s impressive recruiting class, leaving little need for another defensive end in the class. Berry was the last of the four to commit to Ohio State, doing so in October. Ohio State added another defensive line recruit in December with defensive tackle Robert Landers giving his verbal in the middle of December.
With the offer from Ohio State vanishing, Georgia Tech came along at a good time. More importantly, Georgia Tech was the right fit at the right time for Saint-Armour.
“I started thinking about being close to family, and that Georgia Tech offered the same kind of education as Stanford,” Saint-Armour said to the AJC. “As I thought about it more seriously, in terms as the whole aspect of going off to college and instead of playing football – that’s when Georgia Tech took the lead.”