Football coaches favor early signing period, 10th full-time assistant

[Iam4utalways]

Two signing days...An early one in Nov/Dec, and the normal one in February.

Your seriously committed guys will sign on the first date to get it out of the way. It may may the drama queens rethink the committing/ decommitting/ recommitting roller-coaster they seem to enjoy so much. If his spot may be gone you'll likely see the end of the guy waiting till the last minute or even until after signing day like we've seen before.

I see it as nothing but a positive if it's structured correctly from the outset.

I don't see any value either way other than if an injury occurs between signing day and report day, so for that then yes.

 

[JonGrudensAgent]

I would think there will be guidelines to accepting an early signee, and one should be qualifying academically. Being a borderline student should disqualify that athlete from signing early, or at least make the school wary of locking him in. If they do, let it count against their limits. They should have known better.

In Tennessee's case, I could see guys like Cade Mays or Alontae Taylor taking this option. Both have stated their loyalty to Tennessee, and signing early let's them avoid the noise of further recruitment.

Agreed on all counts.

 

['Boro-vol]

I don't see any value either way other than if an injury occurs between signing day and report day, so for that then yes.

There's room for all opinions on this. Just expressing mine, not trying to sway or influence at all.

I look forward to seeing what the NCAA decides.

 

[Defaultuser]

That's one side of it, to be sure. Maybe they'll learn from the mistakes made with baseball, and structure it in such a way as to avoid it. Personally I'm old school....You make a commitment and you stick to it. Once the LOI is signed it should be ironclad. You leave, you follow the transfer rules and lose a year of eligibility. Everybody has to have skin in the game.

Apply your rules to the coaches too. You sound very hypocritical.

 

['Boro-vol]

Apply your rules to the coaches too. You sound very hypocritical.

Why? I said it needs to benefit both parties. That's why the rules, for both, need to be ironclad from the outset.

Not sure what you mean about hypocritical.

 

[Iam4utalways]

There's room for all opinions on this. Just expressing mine, not trying to sway or influence at all.

I look forward to seeing what the NCAA decides.

No problem. I can't figure out the difference. As long as a change doesn't jam me up on the NSD breakfast.

 

[BeecherVol]

Why? I said it needs to benefit both parties. That's why the rules, for both, need to be ironclad from the outset.

Not sure what you mean about hypocritical.

:good!:

 

['Boro-vol]

No problem. I can't figure out the difference. As long as a change doesn't jam me up on the NSD breakfast.

Look at it this way...Two breakfasts!

Hard to argue with that.

 

[Iam4utalways]

Look at it this way...Two breakfasts!

Hard to argue with that.

I knew I was missing the point.

Yeah, I'm good with that.