Early Signing Day

Ohiodad51
Thu, 21 Dec 2017 14:33:40 +0000

I pretty much agree with @moscott. For the most part, this window will be where the action is, as we saw yesterday with the truly elite programs bringing in well over half their classes in most cases. I maybe disagree that the ESPN top 300 kids can set their timetable. Maybe the true five stars, the top 40-50 kids in the country, can continue to do so. But for everyone else, the game remains the same. It is just the schools they are considering are different. My son graduated with one five star kid and three four star kids. All were ESPN top 300 recruits and all are now at elite, national championship level programs. The five star kid could have gone anywhere, at any time. He first committed to a elite program as a sophomore, and then flipped to a different one in junior spring. The other three though were in much the same boat as my son and his other teammates who eventually went D1, with one flipping his commitment a day or two before signing date when a more favored school had a scholly come open because they lost a kid to someone else. It is just that the coaches they were dealing with were named Saban and Harbaugh rather than Teevins and Surace, and 247 cared a lot more about the color of the t shirt they were wearing in a twitter photo, lol.

I think what we will see eventually is that the P5 programs, particularly the more successful ones, will fill most of their classes in this period and the G5/FCS schools will continue to fill most of their classes in February, because a lot of those schools are waiting on the kids who lost the game of musical chairs this last week. And then D2 and D3 recruiting will continue as it does, getting a lot of their signees in February/March.