It’s National Signing Day. Right?
Yes, it’s National Signing Day as the remaining recruits across the country send in their paperwork and announce their college destinations. Back in 2016 and in the years before that, this was the biggest day of the year from a wall-to-wall coverage standpoint. And then the offers started to go out earlier, commits started to make their decisions earlier, and the NCAA installed an early signing period in December that took a lot of thunder away from the February date.
In the past, everyone would sit by their phones and computers and wait on the big-name commits to either send in their paperwork or make a decision on ESPN or the internet, and many of those decisions were made while head coach Dabo Swinney was on the Tigers’ recruiting show (remember when Jackson Carman chose Clemson on National Signing Day and the coaches got the word while the show was rolling?