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Recruiting Game: Signing dates aren’t locked in, but changes create headaches

UNLV football coach Tony Sanchez discusses the upcoming season Wednesday, July 27, 2016, during the Mountain West Football Media Day at Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @jeffscheid

Changing a sport’s national letter of intent signing date is similar to the political structure in the nation’s capital.

It can be done. It has been done. But it’s a tedious process that provides headaches to those involved.

“Just like politics,” said UNLV associate athletic director for compliance Eric Toliver. “People want to recommend a rule, politicians push it and then America votes on it.