Recruiting these days has become more dramatic than one of those cheesy daytime soap operas. Top recruits do tons of interviews with reporters, hype up the upcoming releases of their top-17 lists and send out a bunch of cryptic tweets that get the fan bases all worked up in a tizzy. They’ll commit to a school, decommit several months later, take a million unofficial visits and end up signing with the school that they originally committed to.
Signing Day ceremonies have evolved from the days of putting three hats on a table and picking up one. Now, players will wear five different T-shirts and rip them off one by one until their choice is revealed.