I see now why our recruiting is the way it is

[DerHntr]

So wait, a guy who manages tens of players who don't get paid to do their jobs has no skill whatsoever to make him $100K a year? I'm not saying Mullen is the next CEO of Google but damn you would think that someone who can manage an SEC football team would have the ability to do something else. At a minimum you know they can put up with a lot of hours of work and a ton of stress.

Also, I agree that your argument for never having an early signing period is not supported. Plus your statement that 90% of college athletes outside of the SEC are choosing schools to help their careers is silly at best.

 

[SkullCandy.sixpack]

I didn't think I was being that controversial... High school basketball players can still go prep-to-pro. They can't be in the NBA for one year after high school, but they can (and do) go to other pro leagues, and especially Europe. I don't know where some of y'all go the idea football is the only sport without an early signing period (soccer, track & field, etc., don't). For the other sports (not baseball, basketball), it's partially to give players who already know where they are going to go to school a chance to lock up their scholarship--the late period is because they play winter or spring sports and a Feb signing date would be before the season ended. Part of the problem is that I assumed y'all knew about the Mullen interview where he brought this up. Probably not, or you wouldn't be calling Nov 14 "early." Mullen wanted them to commit before their senior year and before they were allowed to have an OV with the school they signed with. http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/college-recruiting/2013/feb/27/sec-coach-supports-new-recruiting-rules/ I admit I pulled the 90% number out of my ***, but considering there are a few hundred DI-DIII schools with football teams--and that doesn't include ANY 2 year colleges--that means tens of thousands of college players "compete" for about 200 openings in the pros each year. I could be crazy, but I've got to think 90% of high school players know that they aren't going to make it to the NFL, but that doesn't mean they aren't trying to get scholarships to help pay for college.