What is it about college football and early committments that don’t stick?  I’ve touched this before but these guys need to do something different.  Basketball has 2 signing periods and it seems to help but college football seems to be a little behind on everything from the National Championship to figuring out how to straighten out the recruiting mess that we have. 

Some would say that it isn’t a mess but any time you have a kid go on 3 visits and commit to all 3 programs you have issues.  A commitment should mean something…be binding in some way.  What do we teach these kids?  Sure they want to commit so that they are locked in if something happens but they are expecting something from the school that the school is only hoping to get from them.  It should be more.  Imagine if the schools could offer commitments and then pull them whenever.  They can but they don’t.  Kids do it all the time however and it isn’t right. 

I understand that recruiting is a competitive game with coaches and some offer scholarships more freely than others and they risk losing some commits along the way but the kids are most important and the current system only teaches them that their word isn’t really that strong and it should be their strongest trait.

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