🏈 Early signing period was a terrible idea and all of the coaching madness is a perfect example why

[alagator]

We all suggested this as one of the unintended consequences of another NCAA legislation.





I do wonder how many "flips" we'll see this season versus last year, or the year before.

 

[TUSKtimes]

What is Woody implying about the early signing period? It's getting coaches fired or it's rushing the process of replacing?

 

[alagator]

What is Woody implying about the early signing period? It's getting coaches fired or it's rushing the process of replacing?

I read it as the early signing period has caused all of these coaches to lose their jobs before the season ended. I understand him to imply AD's are making rush judgments thinking about the first signing day.

 

[TUSKtimes]

Seems to me that the coaches that were fired were going to get canned anyway. Too early to say much about the early signing period, it has never happened yet. The players coming aboard would seem like the greater issue.

 

[BamaFan334]

I think he's saying it is causing a frenzy to find coaches to hit the recruiting trail so quickly and hopefully hold onto the current commits.

While in theory this seemed like a good idea and yet something else to give us to look forward to, I am starting to see it may have been an awful idea. So many times we see recruits falling for a coach, and not the university. We already know how immature so many of these guys are mentally, so adding in these crazy coaching carousels is only going to make their minds swirl even more. I think this will just open up another can of worms where players feel the injustice of signing early, being forced to play for a school where a coach is fired, and then they have to sit out a year to transfer. On top of that, if a coach is fired days or weeks before the signing period, there will be a ton of hesitation and decommitments and knee jerk decisions where kids sign for a new school that may not technically be what they truly wanted. I think this will force early enrollees and others wanting to get the process over grow up a little sooner.