This story was updated after a fourth recruit decommitted.

At least two of the Louisville football program’s 2019 recruits were “thrown for a loop” Sunday night when the incoming coaching staff informed them they would not honor the players’ scholarship offers.

Four players — LaRue County athlete Anthony Adkins, Franklin-Simpson guard Jack Randolph and Camden, New Jersey, wide receiver Stanley King and Miami Carol City defensive tackle Denzel Daxon — have now reopened their recruitment. Those changes represent the first movement in Louisville’s recruiting class since the introduction of new coach Scott Satterfield on Tuesday.

It is not uncommon for a new head coach to bring in his own recruits, the action nevertheless can leave the high school commits in tough spots as available scholarships dry up.

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Louisville’s 2019 class now has just three commits and ranks 133rd in the country. The class has been leaking recruits for the past six weeks, during which nine players have decommitted and none have committed.

Randolph said he received a call from recruiting staffer Pete Nochta, who informed him that “they were just looking to go in a different direction offensive line-wise, and told me I didn’t have the length or the weight to play in their system, so they pulled their scholarship," Randolph said.

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After the news Sunday night, a parent of another prospect said, “The answer that was given to (recruits) was they’re trying to go in a totally different direction than anything Bobby Petrino wanted or had going on. So basically they’re cutting them? Because Petrino recruited them?”

“We were told from somebody at Louisville that all of the commits that were still there were going to have their scholarship hold up, no matter what happened with the new coach,” Randolph said.

Asked Wednesday if he had spoken to the seven players who remained committed, Satterfield said he hadn’t yet.

“We’re just now diving into that film, watching them, seeing if they are going to fit our needs, what we want, and we’ll do some more of that tomorrow,” Satterfield said. “We’ll start talking to those guys tomorrow. Then, really try to get the rest of the class — who are some other guys that we need to look at and we’ll get on those guys as well, probably go see a few as well.”

In the four weeks between the firing of Petrino and hiring of Satterfield, athletic director Vince Tyra took on a bulk of the recruiting responsibilities. He reached out to most of the remaining commits and several prospects who hadn’t made decisions or who had committed to other schools.

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While Louisville lost two more commits — quarterback Jaden Johnson and tight end Sam Snyder — in the days before Satterfield’s introduction, the last seven remained interested.

“We have the flexibility we wouldn’t normally have because we only have 11 scholarships available to offer, and we have commitments to fill a good portion of those, and those commitments are solid, from my calls with the kids,” Tyra said Nov. 29.

After evaluation, Satterfield had Nochta make calls Sunday night to revoke the scholarships offers, which shocked the prospects affected. Randolph, who committed last April, was set to graduate from high school Friday, sign Dec. 19 at the start of the early signing period and enroll in early January.

“Now it’s thrown me for a loop," Randolph said. "I’m having to come up with a high school schedule for next semester and having to regroup.”

The Franklin-Simpson senior said he typically takes advanced placement courses but elected not to this year because he was going to graduate early. Instead, he took first-semester classes at a local technical college, which he said has already completed registration for second semester.

“I haven’t even talked to the new head coach,” Randolph said. “He’s never called, so I have no clue what he thinks.”

One parent said one of the other prospects already had a dorm room assignment and move-in date for early January. As late as Sunday morning, Louisville’s coaching staff affirmed plans for the commits to take official visits next weekend.

Now, they must find new schools with just over a week until the early signing period and two months until the February option.

“From everything that we read that Vince Tyra said, the commits were good,” a parent said. “Their scholarships would still be honored. I guess we should have took that with a grain of salt when he never personally reached out to us. Satterfield never reached out to us.”

Manual running back Aidan Robbins, another 2019 commit, said Friday he met with Satterfield at school that day and remained committed, though he took an official visit to Brigham Young over the weekend.

Offensive tackle Zach Williamson and guard Ty Murray are the only other prospects still committed.

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