So far we've watched more than a dozen players flip their college football commitments to Minnesota in the aftermath of P.J. Fleck;'s hiring as head football coach. A few have left for other schools, including a defensive back who decided he'd rather go to Iowa.

Given recruiting horror stories on both sides -- athletes and the schools they commit to -- you can make a pretty strong argument that colleges have created the flipping mechanism through their verbal commitment/formal commitment system, especially in college football.

Or, as DePaul men's basketball coach Dave Leitao told the Chicago Tribune: "Sometimes, committing only make you sexier to everybody else..."

The rest of the quote comes later. For now, we're calling time out to tell you that Leitao's son recently flipped his commitment to play college football from Nebraska to Texas, where he will send a letter of intent on Wednesday's National Signing Day.

The rest of the quote: "...and the weirdness for me was that he still got recruited."

Tight end Reese Leitao had 26 scholarship offers before choosing Nebraska ... and then Texas when coach Charlie Strong was fired and replaced by Tom Herman after the season. (Minnesota was among the schools that had made an offer to Leitao, according to ESPN and rivals.com)

His father told David Haugh of the Chicago Tribune: "It made me uncomfortable as a coach to know these coaches at Nebraska who had spent a lot of time and money and effort recruiting Reese now have to look at what you've done. There is a disloyal part of it. What helped me is how the coaches at Nebraska handled it. They didn't like it, but they didn't fret over it. It was like it was par for the course."

Haugh asked Leitao why this doesn't happen more often in basketball: "There's an unwritten rule, a handshake. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more because there are more ancillary people in basketball (recruiting) than football."

Then, Leitao switched into parent mode and talked about visiting Texas and coming away with "an even greater sense of comfort in his son's change of heart."

So if Nebraska seems a bit skinny at tight end when it plays the Gophers next season, it could be because of a coach's son who flipped his commitment.

To read Haugh's entire column, click here.