Talk about your awkward moments around the holidays if this one had played out any other way.
In June of this year, Chandler Morris, one of the top dual-threat quarterbacks in the Class of 2020, verbally committed to playing his college football at Arkansas. If the last name sounds familiar in relation to UA it should as Morris’ father, Chad Morris, was the Razorbacks’ head football coach.
The keyword there is “was,” of course, as the elder Morris was fired by the university shortly after an embarrassing loss to Western Kentucky this past Saturday.
In the wake of that dismissal, and as is ofttimes the case, a handful of high school football prospects who had committed to Morris and the Razorbacks went public with their decisions to decommit. One of those, not surprisingly, was Chandler Morris, who took to Twitter Tuesday evening to confirm that he will be “reopening my recruitment at this time.”
I would like to announce that I will be decomitting from the University of Arkansas and will be reopening my recruitment at this time.
— Chandler Morris (@Chandleram4) November 13, 2019
The younger Morris is a four-star 2020 prospect, rated as the No. 13 dual-threat quarterback in the country. In addition to UA, Morris held offers from, among others, Auburn, Boise State, Clemson, Colorado, Indiana, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma and Virginia Tech.