June Signing Day in 2025

[Fingers]

The move there is twofold: an earlier signing period is believed to be an element that provides high school prospects an opportunity to sign before transfers flood into the Portal; it’s also alleviating the potential of programs trying to formulate signing classes Dec. 18 with the all-new, expanded 12-team College Football Playoff beginning following the 2024 regular season on Friday, Dec. 20.

 

[GAVol]

Hey look! Something that makes sense.

 

[volunteerlane]

So kids can sign with a college before their Senior year of hight school? Talk about tough to eval for college coaches...

 

[Volfan1000]

That will make the summer more fun.

 

[butchna]

So kids can sign with a college before their Senior year of hight school? Talk about tough to eval for college coaches...

Ups the ante for big schools trying to flip recruits late in their senior season. With a signature on a LOI, it’s TAMPERING.

 

[UT Hill Man]

The new recruits will probably be allowed to hit the portal before the season starts the way things are going!

 

[butchna]

The new recruits will probably be allowed to hit the portal before the season starts the way things are going!

It’s been happening. Every year with Florida.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Thank god. Its only eleventy years past due.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

Recruiting just got tougher. Great.

 

[KnoxRealtorVOL]

Recruiting just got tougher. Great.

How? If anything coaches should be thrilled with this. They can focus more heavily on recruiting in the offseason and not trying to hit a late-season December deadline.

 

[JT3]

The new recruits will probably be allowed to hit the portal before the season starts the way things are going!

Would have to be an EE but would probably be able to hit the spring portal window would be my guess.

 

[Jaxon_Vol2017]

Recruiting just got tougher. Great.

This is a good thing. No more last minute flips.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

This is a good thing. No more last minute flips.

I disagree but hope you are right.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

How? If anything coaches should be thrilled with this. They can focus more heavily on recruiting in the offseason and not trying to hit a late-season December deadline.

You will see

 

[Vol8188]

So kids can sign with a college before their Senior year of hight school? Talk about tough to eval for college coaches...

Most of your class is committed before their senior year.

 

[Vol8188]

They should make all of July a dead period.

 

[marcusluvsvols]

They should make all of July a dead period.

Honestly these coaches need it as bad as the players do. They are run ragged year round now between recruiting HS, recruiting the portal, and recruiting their own roster 24/7/365 just to be able to put together a decent team. I envy their paychecks lol...but in no way envy their jobs.

 

[IndianaVol]

So is this ADDING another signing day in addition to the two we already have, or is one of the current ones going away?

 

[Volador]

Now that any NCAAF player can leave his team at halftime and play the second half with any other team they wish, what is to say that HS players signing a letter of commitment has any meaning? Soon these commitment letters will be written in 24 hour increments.

 

[Carp]

Would have to be an EE but would probably be able to hit the spring portal window would be my guess.

Not necessarily. Would keep the wolves at bay for some of these early commits like G-Mac.

But it's unlikely most recruits would do this anyways. Most recruits like the fanfare involved with a public decision, which you really wouldn't get in the middle of of summer. Not to mention, wanting to wait and see how your school performs in the fall and whether your coaches might be leaving or if they recruit over you in the meantime.

 

[hog88]

I would think that most of your 5 star "looking for a deal" guys will still wait until the late signing day.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Ups the ante for big schools trying to flip recruits late in their senior season. With a signature on a LOI, it’s TAMPERING.

Probably helps some of the kids who commit and then get dumped after their senior seasons or late in the process when a new recruit shows up on the radar.

 

[butchna]

Probably helps some of the kids who commit and then get dumped after their senior seasons or late in the process when a new recruit shows up on the radar.

There are always a few. Makes ACCEPTING a commit even more significant.

 

[ftsandersvol]

Ups the ante for big schools trying to flip recruits late in their senior season. With a signature on a LOI, it’s TAMPERING.

Given the recent NLB ruling that athletes are employees of the University, there will be no LOI. Recruits will be signing 4-year employment contracts essentially making the transfer portal obsolete as well. If an athlete decides to leave, they could be sued for breach of contract. As the old saying goes, be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.

What a time to be lawyer.

 

[Vol8188]

Given the recent NLB ruling that athletes are employees of the University, there will be no LOI. Recruits will be signing 4-year employment contracts essentially making the transfer portal obsolete as well. If an athlete decides to leave, they could be sued for breach of contract. As the old saying goes, be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.

What a time to be lawyer.
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The way I’ve heard it explained they can transfer but the contracts will have bonuses for retention. So if you play at Tennessee all four years, you will make more than if you transfer in as a senior