DT Poll of The Day: Ignore your love for Clemson for a

Aug 3, 2012, 12:45 AM

moment, I know its near impossible. Obviously this poll is a difficult one to be unbiased toward this season, especially with so many early commitments.

Which is best for the high school athletes(read: we aren't looking at what is best for university football programs, but at what is best for the recruits):

a. The current situation, with a Feb NSD
b. an option for a 1-2 day early signing day sometime the summer-fall before NSD.

if you choose option a, please post your reasoning
if you choose option b, please post what rules should colleges have to abide by?

I'm going with option b, mainly because of the stresses that these recruits have put on them even after committing. If the NCAA ruled "committing" as where other coaches could initiate contact, I'd say wait it out. However, lots of players such as Nkemdiche just get hounded until February, and you can tell its taxing on some of them.

As far as rules: I'd say limit it to 10 of your 25 allowable players. Maybe less. You don't want coaches to use this as a way to force a recruit to sign, you want this to be a way for recruits to escape the recruiting frenzy and finally get free of the stress. This would keep coaches from saying "if you don't sign with us, we may take another commit that is willing to sign and drop you."

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I'd have to pick option A if we're speaking about what's best for the students. There's just too many things that can change over the course of a season.

- Coaching staff can completely change.

- Depth chart at your position could completely change. School you want to go to is full at your position, but over the course of a season loses one to injury, one to felony arrest, and one to academics and all of a sudden you might get a scholarship and have a chance to start as a freshman.

- You might get better offers after signing. Kid has a blowup senior year, going from 2-3 stars to 4-5 stars. His early signing commitment to ECU (his best offer when he signed) keeps him from getting offers from the powerhouse schools.

- You don't get to take the official visits and recruiting weekends during the season. You could miss out.

- NCAA violations come to light after you sign.

There's one thing that could make option B potentially better for the student. If you take the kid's early signing, he gets a full 4 year scholarship to your school even if he's injured his senior year and can't play. As far as stresses with recruiting, I agree with some of the others here. No one forces the kid to speak to the coaches or media. Commit, and tell everyone else to quit calling.

DT Poll of The Day: Ignore your love for Clemson for a

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a. The current situation, with a Feb NSD

my thing about the 'hassle', don't answer the phone, don't

I chose "B"

I really want to put B but

Re: DT Poll of The Day: Ignore your love for Clemson for a

These are kids.

Re: DT Poll of The Day: Ignore your love for Clemson for a

why?***

Re: why?***Ooo

excellent.

Option A

The only problem with the guaranteed 4 year is that

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