Instead of playing for Louisville in 2015 as originally planned, three-star running back Matt Colburn will play against the Cardinals as a member of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons.
Colburn, a long-time Louisville commit from Irmo, S.C., officially signed with Wake Forest on Wednesday morning, nine days after he had his scholarship offer from Louisville changed to a greyshirt offer, which would delay his enrollment from June to January 2016.
Colburn had the rug pulled out from under him last Monday – two days before National Signing Day – when a Louisville assistant informed him that the team needed more defensive backs in its 2015 class. Because of that, the program could not accept Colburn’s letter of intent on signing day, despite the fact that he had been verbally committed to the program since June.
Colburn was understandably upset with the way things played out with Louisville, but now he’ll have a chance to play against the Cardinals when they travel to Winston-Salem on Oct. 30.
After Louisville pulled Colburn’s offer, he officially visited both Wake Forest and Georgia Southern over the weekend before choosing to stay in the ACC with Wake. He also reportedly considered Marshall.
Colburn’s coach at Dutch Fork High School, Tom Knotts, now says that Louisville head coach Bobby Petrino is not welcome to recruit any more players at Dutch Fork.
“He (Petrino) won’t be able to recruit my school anymore and I imagine there will be some other coaches that will say the same thing,” Knotts said. “Trust factor is just not there.”
With the addition of Colburn, Wake’s 2015 recruiting class improves to No. 49 overall in Rivals.com’s team rankings. The 5-foot-8, 186-pound Colburn was ranked the 19th-best all-purpose back in the country and the 15th best player in South Carolina by Rivals.
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