5-Star DE Richard Wesley De-Committed From Oregon Just 17 Days After Dan Lanning Jumped in a Pool To Celebrate Landing Him

Recruiting has always been a fickle game, but seemingly never more so than in 2025. In addition to the whims of 17-year-olds, you're now also dealing with millions of dollars and a monetary landscape that changes by the week — plus the transfer portal. And unfortunately, there's no way around it. If you want the perks of being a big-time college football coach, you're gonna have to be jumping in pools for kids who may only be committed to you for a quarter of a Kardashian-Humphries marriage.

The Nick Saban/Kirby Smart approach — two guys who would never be caught dead doing this — only works if you're Nick Saban or Kirby Smart. Lanning has had an incredible start to his head coaching career, but when you're battling for five-stars and you're the young, cool guy on the trail, you're gonna have some stunts like this that end up as swings and misses. It happens.

I hope Wesley actually ends up committing to Oregon again and Lanning gets to make a video pushing him into a pool fully clothed as retribution. That guy led one of the best teams in college football last year and you made him look like a fool. Regardless of where Wesley ends up going to school, he owes Lanning an apology letter.