Someone Made Up Knijeah Harris’ De-Commitment

Social media has allowed fans to follow recruiting much better than they have in the past. With this connection to the recruiting landscape comes some potential issues. Florida Gators’ OL commit Knijeah Harris reportedly de-committed from UF tonight, but those rumors were quickly shut down as fake.

The news was reported by an account impersonating 247 analyst Andrew Ivins. The account, now suspended, got a significant amount of attention before people realized something weird was going on.

The real Andrew Ivins cleared the smoke as quickly as he could, while also scolding those who make fake accounts and try to break recruiting news.

The news of Harris de-committing would not have been great news for fans to hear. He’s the second best commit to this point in the Florida Gators’ class, and comes out of IMG Academy, a school that UF is trying to do a better job of recruiting.

It also would have been a poorly timed news break, as the Gators are searching for some good recruiting news after a slow week.

But none of the above matters, as Harris is still solid to UF and the fake account has been taken care of.

This isn’t the only instance of random people on Twitter messing with a recruit and their decision. There have been time in the past of people faking commits, faking top schools, etc. This is simply the recruiting world’s version of fake news.

With how quickly information gets around, though, Knijeah and Ivins were able to shut down the rumors and get the truth back in place quickly.

The bottom line is that people who try and mess with recruits need to, as Ivins put it in his tweet, “do better”. Young kids who are 17-18 don’t need random adults messing with the biggest decision of their lives.

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