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One of the county's premier football recruits had a change of heart.

Louis Young is going to Georgia Tech.

The Good Counsel cornerback signed his National Letter of Intent to join the reigning Atlantic Coast Conference champions Feb. 1, after orally committing to Stanford University (Calif.) over a year ago. The 6-foot-1, 190-pound All-Gazette first teamer made the decision late last week.

"I've actually kind of been keeping the decision a secret from everybody," said Young, who had seven interceptions last fall. "The admission process with Stanford was crazy. They were telling me one thing and another. I just felt like I deserved to know an answer and wanted to make a decision before April."

Enter Georgia Tech defensive coordinator Al Groh. Fired from his post as head coach at Virginia in November, Groh had been recruiting Young for three years.

"This past week, Coach Groh got in touch with me and said anything can happen," said Young. "I mean, I was still seriously considering Virginia [after Groh left] because of my relationship with [new head] coach Mike London. But Atlanta just felt perfect. I never even sent tape to Tech and wasn't ever interested until last week, but hey, things change."

Along with Young, eight other Falcons signed with colleges: Troy Gloster (West Virginia), Thomas Kokolas (Cornell, N.Y.), Dominick Mitchell (Bryant, R.I.), Chris Pitsenberger (West Liberty, W.V.), E.J. Scott (Virginia), Frank Tamakloe (Wisconsin), Josh Warner (Delaware Valley College) and Rohan Williamson (Bryant).

According to head coach Bob Milloy, several other Falcons plan to play in college but have yet to finalize decisions, including Mike Nittoli, A.J. Bowman, Al Thompson and Luke Hodgkiss.

The class of 2010 helped the squad to its first-ever Washington Catholic Athletic Conference title-game defeat of Prince George's County's DeMatha.

"These guys signing today are the nine reasons why we finally won," said Milloy.