“Recruiting never stops.”
When Mel Tucker met with the media over Zoom just a little after noon on Wednesday, the start of the early signing period, he uttered that phrase at least five times.
At that point, 15 of 18 committed players to the 2021 class had sent in their national letters of intent and were officially Spartans, and the attention for the current class was quickly shifting to the three players who have indicated they’ll wait until February to sign, leaving open the possibility they might shift their allegiance.
What it also meant, clearly, was Tucker and his staff were hardly done for the day.