re: early signing period

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It's the athletes decision of what is best for themselves, we as fans get to sit back and enjoy the process. The kids who are strongly committed to a given school early may sign, but not necessarily. The drama/diva crapola would still continue down to the wire for a vast majority. Therefore, we as recruitniks would not be spared the "show".

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And early signing period is necessary, if not for anything other than helping coaches out, and keeping recruiting costs down. You could have special "outs" if a head coach leaves.

The only way to combat this bizarreness is for schools to offer to way more kids than they normally would and force the players hands more. Welcome to the new world of recruiting, where social media and smartphones have made traditional recruiting almost impossible. Get used to more of this if we don't change our philosophy of protecting The Fence.

Increasing the pool of good players we offer is the only solution to getting quality committments earlier, and that won't happen if we stay obsessed with "The Fence". We'll need to go national in a big way in order to stop getting played by instate recruits.

Again another big time shout out to LF