{"id":1990,"date":"2011-08-29T14:23:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T18:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2011-08-29T14:23:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T18:23:10","slug":"linebacker-who-decommitted-to-unc-recommits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1990","title":{"rendered":"Linebacker who decommitted to UNC recommits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High school senior Linebacker Dan Mastromatteo of Absecon, N.J., upon learning of UNC coach Butch Davis&#8217; firing, decommitted to the Carolina program but earlier this month he recommitted.<\/p>\n<p>High school football players may not sign binding letters of intent until February.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sort of overreacted,&#8221; said Mastromatteo, who decommitted two days after Davis was fired. &#8220;I was hearing a lot of things, and I needed to relax. I weighed my options and realized that North Carolina was best for me. The other coaches stayed. The program is on the rise. I still love the school. . . . The academics are great. . . . I always wanted to play in the NFL, and I see myself getting into coaching.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-3, 230-pound senior linebacker, who also plays fullback, is ranked the 68th best high school linebacker nationally by rivals.com. He had solid offers from Rutgers and Tulane.<\/p>\n<p>Other ACC teams to recruit Mastromatteo were N.C. State, Maryland and Boston College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High school senior Linebacker Dan Mastromatteo of Absecon, N.J., upon learning of UNC coach Butch Davis&#8217; firing, decommitted to the Carolina program but earlier this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,1,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-uncategorized","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-1-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1992,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions\/1992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}