Other than recruiting, what has the staff been doing?

[Agoodnap]

This early signing period must really stink for the staff. How have they had time to prepare for the bowl game? Have they purchased any Christmas presents for their wives and family? Have they even taken a few hours to eat a cookie and watch Elf?

Early signing, for the sake of all football staffs should be either moved back a week or moved to mid January. This has to have really messed with their lives.

What do you think? Should they change the date or get rid of early signing?

 

[PaFootbalGuy]

This early signing period must really stink for the staff. How have they had time to prepare for the bowl game? Have they purchased any Christmas presents for their wives and family? Have they even taken a few hours to eat a cookie and watch Elf?

Early signing, for the sake of all football staffs should be either moved back a week or moved to mid January. This has to have really messed with their lives.

What do you think? Should they change the date or get rid of early signing?

It is an issue for bowl prep. There is a bowl game tomorrow so two schools must execute early singing day while preparing and playing a bowl game. I like the early signing period, but it really screws some teams who can't really enjoy the bowl experience.

 

[PSU87]

It is an issue for bowl prep. There is a bowl game tomorrow so two schools must execute early singing day while preparing and playing a bowl game. I like the early signing period, but it really screws some teams who can't really enjoy the bowl experience.

So it works for Pitt and Rutgres

 

[JWB389]

So it works for Pitt and Rutgres

Hadn't thought of that. Maybe it's an NCAA ploy to redistribute wealth.

 

[Erial_Lion]

Trading Boilo recipes?

 

[BlueBand]

Trading Boilo recipes?

Tiddlywinks.

 

[Norm Petersin]

That's why they make the big bucks.

 

[BobPSU92]

Personifying our culture problem.

 

[Art]

Hadn't thought of that. Maybe it's an NCAA ploy to redistribute wealth.

It is. Largely rammed through by the "have nots." Guys like Saban hate it.

 

[ILLINOISLION]

Hadn't thought of that. Maybe it's an NCAA ploy to redistribute wealth.

Yeah.....as if the NCAA could actually be that smart!

 

[JWB389]

It is. Largely rammed through by the "have nots." Guys like Saban hate it.

It does not appear that the process was well thought out. A lot of talk on the radio today about the timing as it relates to bowl prep, etc as the OP notes. This is setting up to be an odd recruiting season. I think there will be an outcry regarding the timing and they will change it quickly.

 

[psuro]

Somebody has been tipping trash cans in my neighborhood. Now I know who.

 

[Art]

It does not appear that the process was well thought out. A lot of talk on the radio today about the timing as it relates to bowl prep, etc as the OP notes. This is setting up to be an odd recruiting season. I think there will be an outcry regarding the timing and they will change it quickly.

Oh, it was well thought out, primarily by G5 and FCS schools, with a fair amount of support from lower echelon P5 schools, who got tired of seeing their top recruits getting picked off on Signing Day. They'll be inconvenienced, but they knew what they were doing.

 

[NedFromYork]

Playing "Pin the RT tag on Bates?" Maybe running some plays from under center, then turning to each other and blurting out "Bwah ha ha ha. Yeah, that's not happening."? Constantly reminding Stevens to get off the ground and do something because it is the LION position not the lying position?

 

[mcgunns]

Early signing period should be in summer. Let the kids enjoy their senior year of they are already decided and let the coaches have some banked. I don't understand the point of this December date.

 

[anon_1eeb2b426hv3y]

It is an issue for bowl prep. There is a bowl game tomorrow so two schools must execute early singing day while preparing and playing a bowl game. I like the early signing period, but it really screws some teams who can't really enjoy the bowl experience.

Just imagine the NCAA’s response after a team turns down a bowl bid falling on signing day and accepts a later lesser bowl so it doesn’t interfere with their signing party....

 

[jim cummings]

Early signing period should be in summer. Let the kids enjoy their senior year of they are already decided and let the coaches have some banked. I don't understand the point of this December date.

I agree about the summer date, but I believe the December date has something to do with coaching staff turnover.

 

[Art]

Just imagine the NCAA’s response after a team turns down a bowl bid falling on signing day and accepts a later lesser bowl so it doesn’t interfere with their signing party....

NCAA? No response. It jhas nothing to do with the bowls beyond rubber-stamping their existence.

A team turning down a bowl for a lesser one? The school's president would never let it happen and, what, forego a better boondoggle.

 

[anon_1eeb2b426hv3y]

NCAA? No response. It jhas nothing to do with the bowls beyond rubber-stamping their existence.

A team turning down a bowl for a lesser one? The school's president would never let it happen and, what, forego a better boondoggle.

You’re probably right. Although the NCAA wants as many to exist as possible and many of those boondoggles seem pretty comparable, especially once pooled through conferences. So I’m expecting it’s just a matter of time if they’re not careful. And once the first slighted bowl sponsor says it’s less interested if the schedule conflicts with signing day..... yeah, lotta ifs. I guess it’s a potentially long yellow brick road...

And if the bowls and sponsors are smart, they may avoid the issue. But I’m expecting a screw up somewhere. We’ll see.

 

[mgkpsu]

It is an issue for bowl prep. There is a bowl game tomorrow so two schools must execute early singing day while preparing and playing a bowl game. I like the early signing period, but it really screws some teams who can't really enjoy the bowl experience.

There's like 30+ days for game prep, minus one day. How do they ever manage during the season with 6 days between games?

 

[TheBumble]

I think I would like it as a coach. You get the majority of your class locked up in December. You now know what you need to focus on to complete the class by February among guys still available.

 

[Art]

You’re probably right. Although the NCAA wants as many to exist as possible and many of those boondoggles seem pretty comparable, especially once pooled through conferences. So I’m expecting it’s just a matter of time if they’re not careful. And once the first the slighted bowl sponsor says it’s less interested if the schedule conflicts with signing day..... yeah, lotta ifs. I guess it’s a potentially long yellow brick road...

And if the bowls and sponsors are smart, they may avoid the issue. But I’m expecting a screw up somewhere. We’ll see.

ESPN owns fourteen bowls outright and pretty much every one that takes place around and during the early signing period, so I don't think too many sponsors will have their noses bent out of shape,

As for boondoggles being comparable, would you rather doggle to the Bahamas or Boise, Idaho? St. Pete or Frisco, TX?

And as far as the NCAA wanting more bowls, I can't see why they would care. When it comes to the type of bowls that surround the early signing period, the only people that might care are ESPN and college presidents who want all expense paid vacations surrounded by sycophants.,,,even if they are in Boise.

 

[Art]

I think I would like it as a coach. You get the majority of your class locked up in December. You now know what you need to focus on to complete the class by February among guys still available.

Therein lies the problem. You strike out on all or some of the kids you need to complete your class, you're SOL because the kids you might have offered in their stead were locked up in the early signing period.

 

[ChiTownLion]

 

[psuro]

Just imagine the NCAA’s response after a team turns down a bowl bid falling on signing day and accepts a later lesser bowl so it doesn’t interfere with their signing party....

Why would the NCAA care about that? It would be the bowls that would be upset.

 

[BobPSU92]

Somebody has been tipping trash cans in my neighborhood. Now I know who.

You’d think they would stay in Happy Valley and tip cows.

 

[psuro]

You’d think they would stay in Happy Valley and tip cows.

VACATION

 

[PearlSUJam]

A bigger question is how do any of the top recruits get any school work done between traveling the country, making commitment videos, and talking to 20 coaches in a day?

 

[psu skp]

Other than recruiting, what has the staff been doing?

Leaving