Ninety-nine percent of the time when we cover recruiting on this site, it’s happy news.

Recruiting, in most cases, culminates with the announcement of which university or college a player has decided to attend and the excitement that comes with knowing that not only will she be getting to play a sport she loves at the collegiate level, but likely get paid in some way to compete.

Then, there’s that one percent of the time when recruiting isn’t so pleasant, when it resembles a sport like football where it’s estimated that 10-15% of committed players either decommit or get dropped for whatever reason.

Unfortunately, that’s the situation that’s happened in the SEC within the last couple of days.