Dwyer five-star safety Matt Elam (West Palm Beach, Fla.), and former 2010 Gator commit, decommitted and chose to join the Florida State Seminoles on New Years Eve.

After the recent switch to FSU from UF, Elam says that the Gators at back in the picture when he talked to coach Urban Meyer. Elam who was expected to be an early enrollee, said that he might announce his official decision at the U.S. Army All-American game coming up this Saturday.

“I talked to Urban last night,” Elam said. “We were talking about our relationship basically and he told me to have trust, to have trust in him and he asked me a word that really touched me. He said, ‘Do you know what faith means?’ and he told me the definition. It really touched me a lot. It really touched me so my decision might change.”

The relationship between Elam and Meyer has always been real strong, ever since he was recruiting Matt’s older brother over at Notre Dame. Since Elam has known Meyer for a long time and had such a strong bond and along with the talk they both recently had, I think it can easily change the mind of Elam to switch back to Florida.

“I’ve known him for a while,” Elam said. “It’s been tough to leave him so I don’t know if I’ll be able to do that.

Elam explained how emotional the conversation between the two of them was. He said Meyer told him how sorry he was and wasn’t sure if he had made the right decision or not and how he had an emotional breakdown.

Elam who is rated by Rivals as the second-best safety in the Nation and the 14th best recruit in the 2010 class, has not changed his commitment from Florida State yet. Hopefully it will change this weekend though.

He has been committed to the Gators for so long, I wouldn’t think anything could cause him to decommit. Let’s just hope he finally comes down to an official decision where he wants to stay. But still he never thought this Meyer situation was going to happen.

“It’s been tough,” Elam said. “I didn’t expect it to be like this. I committed early so I didn’t expect it to be like this.”

I have been hearing Gator fans say he doesn’t deserve to come back to Florida because he chose to leave, and how it seems like this is some kind of soap opera, and someone else said they don’t believe anything Elam says verbally. But you can’t really blame him for switching after what has been going on lately with Florida and some of the recruiting. So lets hear some opinions. Do you think Matt Elam deserves to be a Gator?

(Quotes/Info gathered from Adam Gorney at GatorBait.)

(Tom Ervin, Sun Sentinel)