After an up-and-down senior season things fell into place for Trinity Christian's Paxton Lynch over a 48-hour span.

Lynch, who had Florida offensive coordinator Brent Pease in his living room a week ago, ended his recruitment late Saturday night when he committed while visiting the University of Memphis.

'It's been crazy but I'm kind of glad I found where I wanted to be," said Lynch over the phone from Memphis, Tenn. 'I was trying to enjoy it but (his recruitment) was kind of hard and a little stressful."

David Lynch, Paxton father, said Pease said he was going to offer Paxton if he couldn't lure Philadelphia's Skyler Mornhinweg, son of Philadelphia Eagles assistant coach Marty Mornhinweg, to Florida.

Paxton, 17, boarded a plane for Memphis -- instead of a scheduled visit to Gainesville -- Friday and later that day Mornhinweg de-committed from Penn State and chose the Gators.

"I wasn't going to wait on (Florida). They made their commitment and I made up my mind so we're both happy," Paxton Lynch said. "The coaching staff I feel comfortable about them. Coach (Justin Fuente) produced (Cincinnati Bengals QB) Andy Dalton and I wanted someone who could do that for me."

Lynch had offers from Florida A&M and Florida Tech and was seeing significant interest from Florida, Indiana, UCF and USF. He said he will sign on National Signing Day Wednesday.

The 6-foot-6, 225-pound quarterback spent Friday and Saturday touring Memphis and its facilities and said during a position meeting -- before attending the basketball team's 83-76 over Marshall -- he committed.

"We just drove around the campus, looked at all of the facilities, the weight room and (Saturday) night went to the basketball game," Paxton Lynch said. "My number (12) was hanging up in the locker room and that was pretty cool."

Fuente developed Dalton at Texas Christian before he became the NFL's second-most efficient rookie quarterback -- behind Cam Newton -- for the Bengals this season.

Lynch, who has passed for 2,099 career yards, said he will begin summer classes at Memphis in June and will try to unseat starting sophomore Taylor Reed (1,690 yards, 10 TDs), along with junior Jacob Karam, sophomore Tyler Park and junior Andy Summerlin from Apopka.

The Tigers play their home games in the 61,000-seat Liberty Bowl Stadium and went 2-10 last fall before hiring Fuente.

"I liked it here. I feel comfortable," Lynch said. "They're going to give me a chance right now to compete."

It's been a whirlwind couple of weeks for Lynch, who missed the first half of his senior season due to a bruised knee.

Florida's Pease visited last Sunday and on Monday Lynch had contact with USF assistant Peter Vaas while fielding calls from Indiana and Memphis.

USF checked in again Tuesday and that night there was a home visit from Memphis offensive coordinator Darrell Dickey.