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Big Jim said:
How many teams have new HC’s each epseason 10-15 on average?

The recruiting season lasts 2-3 years for these kids. It seems like rearranging chairs on the deck of the Titanic to mmove back the signing day six weeks.
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It's 25 this year. So figure about 1/5 with a nearly full staff turnover.

How many saw a change to position coach, area recruiter, coordinator or staffer recruiter with whom the recruit built his relationship and drove his decision to commit?

I don't see why, in the midst of all this chaos, we'd have kids feeling they need to sign in December.
 
The ESD just rushes everything. Here is Klatt on with Rich Eisen last year when Brian Kelly left for LSU and Riley left for SC.

There’s just no great reason to have everyone able to sign in December.

 
Buffnik said:
It's 25 this year. So figure about 1/5 with a nearly full staff turnover.

How many saw a change to position coach, area recruiter, coordinator or staffer recruiter with whom the recruit built his relationship and drove his decision to commit?

I don't see why, in the midst of all this chaos, we'd have kids feeling they need to sign in December.
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December seems like the worst possible time for early signing. They should
(a) move early signing to August or sometime before the season,
(b) get rid of signing days entirely and let kids sign whenever they want to, or
(c) get rid of the entire concept of "signing" and treat everyone like transfers (and other students) - free agents till they enroll.
 
Townie said:
December seems like the worst possible time for early signing. They should
(a) move early signing to August or sometime before the season,
(b) get rid of signing days entirely and let kids sign whenever they want to, or
(c) get rid of the entire concept of "signing" and treat everyone like transfers (and other students) - free agents till they enroll.
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We fixed something that wasn't broken.

Previously it was Signing Day in February with a limited early period for JUCOs and HS students graduating in December and enrolling at a college in January.

Just go back to that.
 
It was my impression that the move to add a December ESD back then was at the behest of coaches who wanted to lock down some signatures earlier rather than later and remove some competition.
 
ESD also happens during the middle of the coaching carousel. Players are obviously pressured to sign and will often see the coach who recruited them leaving shortly after signing day. It seems like moving it back would be more fair to the players.
 
One counter argument is that having only the Feb signing day means the coaching carousel is now going to include whole (or at least partial) recruiting classes making moves also. Schools who have a coach poached are going to find themselves with the remnants of a recruiting class for the next coach to solve in a very short timeframe. I don’t love kids signing to a school only for their coach to bail but I’m also not in love with a school getting their recruiting class gutted in December or January when a coach leaves.
 
SINKRATZ said:
One counter argument is that having only the Feb signing day means the coaching carousel is now going to include whole (or at least partial) recruiting classes making moves also. Schools who have a coach poached are going to find themselves with the remnants of a recruiting class for the next coach to solve in a very short timeframe. I don’t love kids signing to a school only for their coach to bail but I’m also not in love with a school getting their recruiting class gutted in December or January when a coach leaves.
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As Klatt preaches, this is part of the systemic problem of the sport not having a governing body with real power. There should be a calendar like the NFL, investigative authority, rules against tampering, etc, etc.
 
Big Jim said:
How many teams have new HC’s each epseason 10-15 on average?

The recruiting season lasts 2-3 years for these kids. It seems like rearranging chairs on the deck of the Titanic to mmove back the signing day six weeks.
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Maybe more about the position/coordinator coaches that were recruiting them? 🤷‍♂️
 
CUAviator said:
But does it?
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Well, if a kid commits and signs early it removes 6 weeks or so that another team would have to give him its pitch. So, kind of. It also spreads out the work load for the coaches. And that work load has to me tremendous now with the Portal being so active. It must be like an airport 2 days before Thanksgiving.
 
Buffnik said:
As Klatt preaches, this is part of the systemic problem of the sport not having a governing body with real power. There should be a calendar like the NFL, investigative authority, rules against tampering, etc, etc.
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That is so pie in the sky and does nothing to solve real problems today.
 
PAHIBuff said:
Well, if a kid commits and signs early it removes 6 weeks or so that another team would have to give him its pitch. So, kind of. It also spreads out the work load for the coaches. And that work load has to me tremendous now with the Portal being so active. It must be like an airport 2 days before Thanksgiving.
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I may be misinterpreting a lot of what’s going on, but it doesn’t seem to me like “signing” an LOI with a school means ****.
 
Shouldn't football just move the early signing period to BEFORE the senior season similar to basketball? I don't know why it would be different between the two sports.
 
Buffnik said:
What would that accomplish?
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A few things actually:
1) Some kids don't relish the recruiting process and already have their mind made up. This allows them to focus on school and football for their senior year in peace
2) For coaches, you figure out what holes you still have after the early signing period so you know where to focus for the regular/late signing period

I get the issue with coaching churn, but we've done it this way for a while in bball and you don't hear about this being a big thing and seems to work just fine.

The problem with it in football is the timing. That's what I'm suggesting a change to while aligning both sports philosophically on how early and regular signing is handled.
 
manhattanbuff said:
We lost eleven games and were blown out in ten of those games in 2022. Every other team listed played in a bowl game.
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what GIF
 
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