One of Alabama's biggest National Signing Day victories came at the expense of the Texas Longhorns when longtime Texas commit

switched his commitment to Alabama and signed with the Crimson Tide. While Texas head coach Mack Brown wouldn't address the incident specifically on Signing Day, he did announce that he was instituting a new policy against allowing recruits committed to the Longhorns to take visits to other schools.

"The thing that we will do is we have allowed the kids to commit and still look around the last couple of years -- we're not doing that anymore,"

. "If you are committed to us, be committed. If you're going to go look, we're going to go look."

Michigan, Oregon and Georgia Tech have all instituted similar policies in recent years but the Longhorns, who have typically found themselves near the top of the national recruiting rankings every year, are the first team with a reputation as a recruiting powerhouse to take this stance.

Some recruits have already reacted negatively to the policy, including Fort Worth offensive tackle

Demetrius Knox

. The blue-chip Texas commit

he is not pleased with the change of policy at Texas and believes it puts recruits at a major disadvantage.

"I feel like, regardless, if you are committed or not, you should be allowed to take visits and official visits to other colleges because, what happens your freshman and sophomore year if you are at a university and you didn't take those visits?" Knox said. "You might have second thoughts or whatever. If you went on those visits you get to decide what school is best for you so you can never have second thoughts."

Knox has received plenty of attention from Alabama and has expressed interest in visiting Tuscaloosa in the coming months.

The Longhorns finished 16th in the 247Composite team rankings for the class of 2013, their lowest finish since the rankings began. Texas currently holds early commitments from 8 players for the class of 2014.