In what could be the most important day to the future of your college football team, the culmination of years of work comes to a head today. National Signing Day is upon us so grab a coffee, log onto your favorite team’s blog and try to act like you are working as much as possible.
If history has taught us anything, it’s that players who have the most hype coming out of high school are not always the best players for your team.
Usually the more unheralded players stay grounded enough to put in the work, and they don’t rely on just natural talent alone — which is typically enough to make one a high school phenom, but may not be enough to take them to the next level in college.
The coaches have been spending months, even years scouting these and many other players. Thousands of texts have been sent, emails, tweets, Facebooks, phone calls, house visits eating mom’s chili, and an amount of ass-kissing that you or I could never comprehend receiving.
Ultimately, today determines how good your team will be.
So get your backup fax machine ready, and prepare yourself for a few sickeningly self-important press conferences. And just think, in a few years you’ll be able to tell if this year’s class is any good! How’s that for instant gratification?
