Rockne's Roundtable

Four-star cornerback Ronald Darby has always planned on taking other official visits since he committed to Notre Dame during the Blue-Gold Game weekend, and Maryland was the first school to receive a stop.

Auburn was another place he took a trip and he informed BlueandGold.com that Clemson was next. While he was torn between some other schools for his remaining trips, the contact period stirred up the process even more for him.

He's always kept things close to the vest, but word from our Florida State site following the Under Armour Game suggested that the Florida State coaches were able to successfully get into his ear and urge a visit.

We reported as such, and Corey Dowlar followed up with the most recent info on the Seminoles end today:

"Confirmed with a great source that Ronald Darby wants to visit Florida State for the January 13 weekend.

However, it is not a done deal. There are logistics that need to be worked out and his parents need to sign off on it first."

Florida and USC are just a pair of other schools that had been mentioned by the touted defensive back commit.

We're looking to confirm whether he has officially decommitted from Notre Dame, but we have heard from a number of sources that it was getting close to that point. Not that there isn't a chance that he'd get back to the Irish if that's what he felt was the best fit, but in rare cases do you find a kid commit, decommit and recommit to a program (Aaron Lynch and Stephon Tuitt being the exceptions, but knowing that Florida State and Georgia Tech were the competition).

We've seen the staff do it before and it will take great effort to do it again with Darby.

We'll post any more information we can receive, but trying to get something from Darby directly ... again, he's been rather quiet throughout.

Update at 8:50 p.m.

Darby got back to me on his decision.

"I did (decommit from Notre Dame)," he said via text.