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It's coming up later on this hour. We will get deeper into the recruiting roundup.

Of course, tomorrow is national signing day or the first day of the national signing period.

I remember when, I mean, for most of my time here at WTCA, right, this was the big week.

We were, you know, yesterday and today we'd be, we would have been talking about all the kids that were about to be signing.

And then we'd be promoting a big event that we'd be having on national signing day because we'd be bringing all, you know, a bunch of these kids together and et cetera, et cetera.

And you can't do that anymore.

It's a totally different thing.

And I remember this was the week for college football in the first part of the year.

After the bowl games are over, after the championships were played.

Now, that all happened on like New Year's Day and it didn't go much past New Year's Day.

Maybe a week, but it didn't go much beyond that, correct?

Now we're going into late January.

But the event on the calendar, once you got past that last football game for the next however long was signing period and the national signing day in particular.

And now I know there will be some fireworks tomorrow, but it's not the same.

Now, kind of thinking about, you know, as a fan, I kind of miss this signing day.

As a player, the early signing period is great, getting it out of the way, being able to sign.

In fact, I think they should have an early signing period for the players.

I think the players should be able to sign if they want to sign so they don't have to deal

with coaches bothering them.

Players should be able to sign earlier.

I think there should be an even earlier signing period like in, you know, September or

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