Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney wants the scholarship offers that college coaches make to recruits to mean something, and because of that he is in favor of a change to the recruiting calendar that would provide an August signing period.
Before 2017, the only signing date for college football happened on the first Wednesday in February. In 2017, the NCAA added a second signing day to go along with the normal February signing day. This year, the earlier signing period was between Dec. 15–17, and the later signing period came on Feb. 2.
Swinney, during an interview with Carl Reed of 247Sports last week, suggested that he would keep the February date but move up the early signing day date.