Westlake senior Louie Swope has decommitted from SMU and will attend Texas A&M University as a preferred walk-on, according to Kirk Bohls of the Austin American-Statesman.

Swope will rejoin his older brother, Ryan, a former all-state running back at Westlake who is a scholarship receiver for the Aggies.

Louie Swope, a 6-foot, 180-pound defensive back, committed to SMU last spring after a stellar junior season at Westlake. He suffered a torn knee ligament in the fourth game of the 2009 season on a punt return against Bowie. SMU recently informed Swope that would “greyshirt” the defensive back this fall, hoping that Swope would stay at the school without scholarship in 2010 and join the team as a scholarship player in 20111.

A greyshirt refers to a college football player that either doesn’t go to school in the fall or enrolls part-time and pays his own way without officially joining the team. In January of the following year, that player enrolls full-time and officially joins the team. Therefore, Swope would have technically been part of SMU’s 2011 recruiting class.

“The idea (of grayshirting Louie) is not horrible, but we were not totally comfortable hearing that 10 days before signing day,” Louie Swope’s father, Paul Swope, told Bohls. “They’re [SMU] concerned about his knee injury, which I can respect. But I didn’t think that was right telling us so late, especially since he committed to them in April.”

Swope’s move to Texas A&M left Westlake with five players signing scholarships Wednesday at Westlake High School, including linebackers Bryce Hager (Baylor) and Ellis Glaw (Dartmouth), quarterback Tanner Price (Wake Forest), kicker Cody Rademacher (Air Force) and tight end Charlie Copa (Syracuse).