Now that the current football season has officially ended with the BCS National Championship Game, we continue the year long college football journey with a recruiting crescendo on February 1, 2012 when all high school players sign their national letters of intent indicating where they will be attending college for the next four years. Each year this recruiting component has evolved into an event more reminiscent of the crowd around a craps table in a Las Vegas casino than a cherished and special day in the life of a young man whereby he proudly proclaims where he will be spending the next four years of his life as a student athlete.
The term commitment has been replaced with enough drama to make American Idol look like an infomercial from one of those late night cable channels that everyone surfs by without ever stopping long enough for the caption to actually be displayed. The common trend that has been evolving the past several seasons is that more and more players are waiting ...
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