SEC thinking of early signing period?...

[dawgstudent]

Although how can a league have an early signing period. Doesn't the NCAA have to sign off as well?

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/05/live_at_9_with_kevin_scarbinsk_121.html

 

[patdog]

An early signing period then is a terrible idea. The ACC has it right. Early signing period starts Aug. 1, right before preseason practice. Pretty sure both the SEC and ACC votes are just to bring it to the full NCAA, not for a separate signing period for the conferences. The SEC used to have an early signing date that was only binding on the other SEC schools. One year we signed Rooster Jones from Pascagoula and Hugh Green from Natchez in the early SEC signing period, only to have Jackie sign them both at Pitt on the national signing day.

 

[SEC_SI]

http://secsportsinsider.com/early-signing-period-heading-for-sec/

Horrible idea.

 

[57stratdawg]

Aug 1 makes more sense to me than Nov 30. To me, this is a chance to clean the sport up a little. At least the November signing period would allow some kids to be signed before going out on the All-Star game circuit.

I understand guys like Leo Lewis will still have Jimmy Johns getting involved, but at least it might mean a couple kids a year aren't getting bad advice. Also, it could help undermine some of this 'planted' recruits BS that Freeze likes to pull. I think we would have a pretty good idea that Brassell, Sean Rawlings, and Kalio Moore aren't really committed to the program when they started crawfishing around signing with MSU in an early signing period.

 

[johnson86-1]

http://secsportsinsider.com/early-signing-period-heading-for-sec/

Horrible idea.

Not a horrible idea. Maybe not the best idea, but it would be nice for high schools students that can get an offer for the early signing period to be able to give a commitment and protect themselves from being dropped due to injury. It would also give schools the chance to get some certainty regarding their recruiting classes early on. It would be interesting to see who it would favor and what strategies would develop. On the one hand, it would put a lot of pressure on people with offers from the Alabama's to commit early. It might also allow some of the smaller schools to lock down a commitment from players that would otherwise wait and see if teams like Alabama have room for them. I'm sure there are also plenty of downsides and I don't think this will help cut down on how dirty recruiting is, but I still don't think this is a horrible idea.

 

[Wicked Pissah]

I dont think any player signing with alabama is getting bad advice.

 

[patdog]

Well, except the ones who get cut and wind up in I-AA, out of football, or in jail.

ETA: They "processed" another QB yesterday.

 

[57stratdawg]

Fair enough. How about Joe Price and Adairius Barnes?