“De-commit” is the phrase that has been coined for players who commit to participating in athletics at a given school only to back out of the commitment and pledge their skills to another school. It stands to reason someone would manufacture a word for this phenomenon … we create words for everything else. Increasingly, student-athletes are committing to a school only to change their mind (for whatever the reason) and decide to commit and eventually sign with a different school. I have not stumbled across as many pieces on this subject as I would expect to, but this is one from the NCAA’s Web site that kicks the topic around.
NCAA:
http://www.doubleazone.com/2009/02/verbal_commitments_college_football_high_school_football_ncaa.php
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