Deuce Knight's flip from Notre Dame football reportedly happened weeks ago

The thing that Notre Dame football fans were worried about has finally happened. Or at least it was finally announced publicly.

Deuce Knight has officially flipped his commitment from the Fighting Irish to the Auburn Tigers. It was an announcement that people in South Bend had been waiting to hear after one report followed another that he was pulling the trigger for the SEC school. However, the longer the saga continued, the more people hoped it wouldn’t happen.

However, according to recruiting analyst Tom Loy, it’s actually something that happened weeks ago. During a Twitter space hosted by 247Sports, he said Knight told Auburn coaches he was indeed coming. According to Loy, Knight wanted to make sure that everything was right and that he was making the right call. The analyst also made it clear that one of the holdups was that Knight really does love Notre Dame football.

In the end, the Mississippi quarterback simply couldn’t fight the pull of the SEC. He grew up watching teams like Auburn and definitely listened when they came calling. That despite the fact that he wasn’t always the Tigers’ first choice at quarterback.

Notre Dame football moves to Plan B

The immediate impact of this move is that the Fighting Irish continue what has been a months long struggle on the recruiting front. Before now, the decommits or recruiting losses had all been at the wide receiver position.

Now Deuce Knight joins the list of players the Blue and Gold couldn’t land or couldn’t hold onto. And he joins it just as the team was hoping they might have a real chance of keeping him in the fold.

Within the last few weeks, it really did look as though the program might hold onto the gun slinger. There was even talk that he might take another visit to South Bend in a couple of weeks when they take on Stanford.

That now appears to be over. While there is still some reason to hope that Notre Dame football could reverse Deuce Knight back to the Irish, that it took this long seems to indicate it’s a permanent thing.