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Tom Oates: Fans need to back off on the vitriol when college athletes decommit

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Different day, different decommitment.Or so it seems for University of Wisconsin sports fans.

In the past two weeks, two football recruits who had publicly committed to UW announced they had decommitted and would pursue their careers elsewhere. Safety Bryson Shaw of Maryland was flipped by Ohio State and wide receiver Nolan Groulx of North Carolina re-opened his recruitment. They were considered three-star recruits by some websites, four-star recruits by others and were key components of a 2019 class that some thought would take UW’s recruiting to a new level.

Those developments came on the heels of the stunning decommitment of four-star shooting guard Tyler Herro of Whitnall in October, just weeks before the national signing date in basketball.