It shouldn't matter if guys go after your commits anyway. As a recruit, you have a list of schools in front of you, you go visit them all, ask the questions you need to ask, get their sales pitch and make a decision. Once you commit to a team, by then, you should have already weighed all your options and made your decision so teams going after you and trying to sell you harder shouldn't make a difference unless you didn't do a good job of figuring things out yourself. If you haven't totally decided you want to go to one place, don't commit. It's simple. If it takes you til signing day to figure out what you want, so be it, but don't commit when you're not sure that's what you want. Look at Joe McKnight. Don't do what Barksdale did and commit 50 times to 40 different teams, that's a bunch of crap and doesn't speak well of your character.
What Smith did was commit to the team he wanted all along. If ND told him they wanted him but didn't offer because he was down the list, he should not have committed to Iowa and waited for ND but if ND told him they weren't interested in him and then came back and gave him an offer after CB got there then what he did was ok. What Greg Little did was different, he had a tough choice between UNC and ND, he thought and thought and after Butch Davis got hired as the new head coach, he decided it was best that he go to ND. Then sometime between then and now, he changes his mind. If he wasn't sure, he shouldn't have committed. I'd rather have a guy stay uncommitted than commit and decommit. As a coach, I want guys I can depend on. No one wants to look at the list of commits he has and worry about who actually is committed to coming to ND and who is just waffling.
Don't say you're committed when you're not really committed is what I'm saying. If you're in doubt, don't commit.
