There’s a change likely coming to how Signing Day functions. Once the proposal passes the Conference Commissioners Association (which seems likely), there will be an early Signing Day just before Christmas that coincides with the traditional junior college date.
Bob Stoops has long been on record that he’s a fan of these early signing periods, and it makes sense: he can lock down recruits into a binding written agreement instead of the tenuous verbal agreement that risks his recruit being flipped elsewhere (like in the case of Jacob Phillips of LSU). However, it’s something that would make like difficult for small programs, whose commits may prefer to wait for bigger offers.