re: RIP National Signing Day

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Recruiting is so watered down with social media now I don’t even follow it

We sign who we sign, who cares who we don’t.

50% of every class will transfer anyway

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It's not that it's "watered down". It's that the breadth and depth of information is so vast (because of social media and increased "recruiting coverage") that there isn't much suspense like in years past.

In the 90's through the early 2000's you didn't have a ton of people covering recruiting. You didn't have social media available to give daily updates. You didn't really have many public "commitments". You knew the names of the prospects. You generally knew who LSU was recruiting. But there was always a greater level of uncertainty going into signing day...which created suspense...which created fun.

Now kids are having public commitment ceremonies. Even though they are completely irrelevant because there is literally nothing keeping him from changing that decision by signing day. And most players have already publicly committed by singing day. There's little suspense. It's just kid of a perfunctory process.