National Signing Day
For those of you in the rest of the country, or world for that matter, yesterday was just another Wednesday. For us in the Southeast, it's pretty close to a regional holiday, otherwise known as National Signing Day. Schools and banks close, local news broadcasts cover it, parties are dedicated to it, the whole nine yards.
It's the first day high school football players can officially commit to an institution of higher learning at which they will get an educa...errrrr...play college ball. It's the day they actually sign their name to a piece of paper saying they will go to a school. Once that happens, the analysis begins. It's pretty amazing if you're from elsewhere and haven't seen the craze before. People actually put grades on recruiting classes, much like they do the day after the NFL draft, and they have as much meaning, if not less. I mean really, I understand that it's all you have to go on, but you're grading the future ability of a pack of 18 year old boys based on what happened on a handful of Friday nights. That's almost as predictable as the lottery.
That's not what really amazed me though. What really got me was this morning, when on sports talk radio, they were discussing the fortunes of the University of Florida, which apparently had an amazing recruiting class, but was low at the wide receiver position. The guy who actually makes a living tracking all this recruiting stuff said something like, it's not that big a deal, because this year's recruiting class wasn't all that strong at wide reciever where next year's class is amazing. Excuse me. Next years class? We're talking analyzing the ability of 17 year old kids now. You have to be kidding.
It's the first day high school football players can officially commit to an institution of higher learning at which they will get an educa...errrrr...play college ball. It's the day they actually sign their name to a piece of paper saying they will go to a school. Once that happens, the analysis begins. It's pretty amazing if you're from elsewhere and haven't seen the craze before. People actually put grades on recruiting classes, much like they do the day after the NFL draft, and they have as much meaning, if not less. I mean really, I understand that it's all you have to go on, but you're grading the future ability of a pack of 18 year old boys based on what happened on a handful of Friday nights. That's almost as predictable as the lottery.
That's not what really amazed me though. What really got me was this morning, when on sports talk radio, they were discussing the fortunes of the University of Florida, which apparently had an amazing recruiting class, but was low at the wide receiver position. The guy who actually makes a living tracking all this recruiting stuff said something like, it's not that big a deal, because this year's recruiting class wasn't all that strong at wide reciever where next year's class is amazing. Excuse me. Next years class? We're talking analyzing the ability of 17 year old kids now. You have to be kidding.
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