Baby Gronk Flips Commitment to Lincoln Riley, USC After Auburn, Alabama Pledges

It's a day ending in Y, so Baby Gronk—or, more accurately, his father—has announced another flip-flop in his recruitment.

The 11-year-old social media star, whose real name is Madden San Miguel, posted his commitment to USC on Tuesday, a day after committing to both Auburn and Alabama within a three-hour span.

Of course, none of these commitments are binding because none of these schools can even offer Baby Gronk an official scholarship. Schools are not allowed to render official offers until a player's junior year of high school, which is roughly six years from now for Baby Gronk.

This is merely another ploy for social media attention, likely coming from San Miguel's father, Jake, who runs his son's social presence. Jake San Miguel is known for making aggressive and relentless pitches to influencers in the sports world hoping to land his son coverage and collaborations.

The constant flipping of Baby Gronk's commitment seems to be the latest strategy to keep the 11-year-old, who shot to fame in 2023, in the national spotlight. Baby Gronk has now committed to around a dozen schools in the last month, already making it one of the oddest recruitment stories in college football history before his actual recruitment can begin.

Baby Gronk currently has 319,000 subscribers on YouTube and 520,000 followers on Instagram.