So it is this backdrop that gives rise, once again, to the idea of an early signing period during the summer before a prospect's senior year.
"It's coming to a point where I think we'll see one," Mask said. "With recruiting coming to the point where it's a 12-month ordeal now, I think it's going to happen.
"I just don't see any disadvantages to it at all. ... I promise you, high school coaches would be all over it."
There is one big disadvantage, but it could be addressed. In order for an early signing period to work, prospects would have to be allowed an out - a pass to start the process over - if a college coaching staff left or was fired between the early signing period and February.
It's been my opinion over the past several years that all an early signing period would accomplish is pushing the recruiting process even earlier in a prospect's high school career. It wouldn't diminish the pressure, it'd only make it come sooner.
Link: http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/08/early_signing_period_for_footb.html
"It's coming to a point where I think we'll see one," Mask said. "With recruiting coming to the point where it's a 12-month ordeal now, I think it's going to happen.
"I just don't see any disadvantages to it at all. ... I promise you, high school coaches would be all over it."
There is one big disadvantage, but it could be addressed. In order for an early signing period to work, prospects would have to be allowed an out - a pass to start the process over - if a college coaching staff left or was fired between the early signing period and February.
It's been my opinion over the past several years that all an early signing period would accomplish is pushing the recruiting process even earlier in a prospect's high school career. It wouldn't diminish the pressure, it'd only make it come sooner.
Link: http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/08/early_signing_period_for_footb.html
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