FB RECRUITING: 2026 Joel Ervin Update: Decommits

[shadow force]

 

[beantowncard]

Pretty good offer sheet. Looks like a nice pickup.

 

[shadow force]

 

[beantowncard]

Just committed to try and attract better offers. CFB might as well implement a draft, salary cap, contracts, and all the other stuff and just be professional. If that’s the case, I’d just as soon watch the NFL.

 

[PushupMan]

Disappointing to see that he’s likely going elsewhere, but that’s always the problem with verbal commitments. I don’t get too fired up about it - either the commitment or the decommitment.

And it’s definitely true that these players often use a committable offer as leverage against other schools to get their crap together and make an offer or they will “miss the boat”.

 

[Rollem Cards]

I don’t get excited until I see them strap up and run on the field.

Then I wonder if they’ll play in the bowl…..🙄

 

[Rollem Cards]

A “draft” would be good.

Tell em “you’ll play in Morgantown WV…..

or go to WKU, South Alabama etc…and play for room and board”

Wanna get paid? Go where you’re told

Simple

 

[Louis III]

I don’t get excited until I see them strap up and run on the field.

Then I wonder if they’ll play in the bowl…..🙄

I'm with ya man. I read the commitment and its fine and all, but anymore until they make it to summer practice, I dont get excited. Cant even get happy heading into spring, bc they will transfer out in May!

 

[Rollem Cards]

I'm with ya man. I read the commitment and its fine and all, but anymore until they make it to summer practice, I dont get excited. Cant even get happy heading into spring, bc they will transfer out in May!

I am truly surprised that some Basketball players haven’t “opted out” of the NCAA if they’re on a low seed with little chance.

I would have to think that’s coming.

 

[Louis III]

I am truly surprised that some Basketball players haven’t “opted out” of the NCAA if they’re on a low seed with little chance.

I would have to think that’s coming.

Hell knowing what I know now, Louisville shouldve opted out of the ACC tourney. What would they have done make us a 9 or a 10?? Give me fresh legs over a seed line when you're talking 8-10! Hell Creighton was much harder matchup than any of the other possibilities!

 

[PushupMan]

Basketball is just different in that respect. All bowl games except for the playoffs are meaningless, while every game in the NCAAT is meaningful. Basketball is a “non-contact” sport, so anyone opting out of an NCAAT game is going to result in very intense criticism.

Not saying it won’t eventually happen, but it would have to be a situation like Cooper Flagg coming off of that ankle injury he suffered in the ACCT and playing on an 11-seeded team in the first four. The problem with that scenario which makes it so unlikely is that the consensus number one overall draft pick is very seldom on a team that bad.