It’s pretty damn rotten for an AD and coach to screw over a commit like this. The dude worked hard to enroll early and was “told” (who knows if it’s true) by the AD that scholarship commitments would be honored. If Satterfield then pulled the guys committment, I’d be ööööing pissed too. That’s not the way it should be handled at all. If it happened at Tech, I’d raise holy hell.
It’s okay to tell the guy that he doesn’t fit your system and that it’s perfectly okay to look elsewhere, but you need to honor that commitment. If the offer was submitted and he did nothing wrong to involve it being revoked, it should be good as gold.
This makes me glad we didn’t pursue Satterfield.