Many different reactions I imagine to Madison, Ohio Tight End Nic DiLillo decommitting from Pitt (so much for what his mom wanted) and committing instead to Ohio State once they offered him. I mean, it’s hard to be too offended that he backed out of a verbal to Pitt, when he did the same to Clemson. Plenty of thoughts about how the kid just can’t make up his mind and maybe he just shouldn’t have kept giving verbals if he was continually waiting for a better offer.

On the other hand, maybe the kid is playing the recruiting game correctly. He verballed to the best offer gotten early, then upgraded once and then twice. Each time getting a little closer to home and a bigger name in college football. Ohio State came calling, finally, for him. Arguably, as annoying as it can be to see a kid decommit, at least it was done in late July rather than October or November.

I imagine there will be the standard story about how he always dreamed of playing for tOSU and when the offer came, he couldn’t say no to his dream. Heck, I noted back in late June when his verbal was pending to Pitt that if they offered, he’d probably jump again.

UPDATE: Yep, sure enough courtesy of Gorman’s blog:

“I’m ready to take the heat for committing again, but to see the look on my parents’ face made it worthwhile to me,” DiLillo told the Scout.com Ohio State site. “I’ve never seen them happier. Ohio State is my dream school. What kid doesn’t grow up wanting to be a Buckeye? I know I look like a jerk, but had the Buckeyes offered earlier there never would have been any thought of Pittsburgh or Clemson.”

According to the post, DiLillo and his family also went to Pittsburgh and dropped some cash on Pitt gear along with stopping by to see the coaches  before announcing he changed his mind.