Five years later, we can now close the book on Saban's second recruiting class at Alabama.
Winning the recruiting race in February often can set up schools for huge success on Saturdays in the fall. It's especially important for rival schools battling for those same recruits in major turf wars.
National Signing Day 2013 is here! It’s college football’s version of Christmas morning when millions of dollars, thousands of man-hours traveling and countless phone calls come to fruition in the form of a single sheet of faxed paper. Nowhere in sports are grown adults held captive by the musings of teenagers like the first Wednesday in February. Bizarre flip-flops, surprise press conferences, unique props and wacky storylines all make NSD one of the more intriguing days in all of sports. And 2013 should have its fair share of teams, players, coaches and recruits to watch:
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It’s the eve of national signing day for the 2013 cycle, so it’s time to roll out the final projections for this class. Below, 247Sports National Recruiting Director JC Shurburtt and I take a final stab at projecting where many of the uncommitted prospects in the country will sign tomorrow.
See which schools and conferences take the most gambles. Alabama and Auburn might not have national titles without JuCos, and Auburn has loaded up on them this year.
The No. 15 guy on our 2012 postseason countdown got off to a late start but closed with a flurry.
We are only hours away from fax machines screeching off the hook. National signing day officially starts at midnight, but the real fun kicks off Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. ET, when ESPNU will bring the announcement ceremony of the nation's No. 1 recruit -- defensive end Robert Nkemdiche (Loganville, Ga./Grayson). ESPNU will have wall-to-wall coverage of recruiting's version of Christmas morning all day, as 18 ESPN 300 prospects will announced their college destinations live on air. Here's the complete schedule for ESPNU's coverage of live announcements:[/QUOT
ESPNU signing day announcement schedule-SEC BLOG ESPN
If you’re a regular reader of 247Sports, then you love the excitement and the build that is the preamble to National Signing Day. However recruiting junkies know the experts’ takes, the insider scoop and have been consuming everything that 247Sports brings them. All of that research takes a lot of the suspense out of most signing day announcements – but not all of them. Inevitably the first Wednesday in February brings us surprises, commitments and signings that no one sees coming but there are always a few prospects that are good candidates to bring that drama. If you’re working on National Signing Day, here are five prospects that you should schedule your coffee break around.
For many Crimson Tide fans, the period between the end of football season and kickoff in the Fall is the sports equivalent to the long dark night of the soul. For some, the only thing that helps during the off season is recruiting coverage and the arrival of A-Day at the end of Spring practice.