What a great day for so many kids around the country as they put their signatures on a letter of intent and celebrate school being paid for. I love it. When I signed with Utah out of high school we had a number of other athletes at our school signing at the same time. Russ Millard signed with Iowa basketball and another player signed with Air Force. We were all so excited at the time about what was ahead of us but only one of us went to the school we signed with.

My point is that these kids have plenty of time and opportunity to make good solid choices but like in life, things change. A great number of players that committed today will never play a down for the school they signed with. A number of players that signed today will never play a down of college football even. Life brings about uncertainty and that is the only thing certain about life.

I don’t hide that I’m an Illinois fan and they had a marginal recruiting class this year by most standards but I’m still just as excited for those kids coming in. I’m looking forward to a new crop of players starting up in the spring and following their every move. Fans are fans and though we’d all like each kid to be a 5 star talent we still love our programs unconditionally.

Good luck to all the players who signed today and I hope college football and college in general gets you everything you want.

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