Happy National Signing Day! Tampering trouble & craziest NSD predictions
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Grace Raynor joins Andy and Ari in discussing National Signing Day! What are the biggest headlines of the day? Could Alabama come away with the recruiting crown? Coaches across the country are condemning and decrying a reported tampering problem that is plaguing the sport, but what are they doing about it? Plus, our crazy NSD predictions (P.s. Please don't let Ari be a father to a 5-star recruit)
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| 0:47.2 | Happy National Signing Day if you were listening to the podcast. |
| 0:53.7 | Happy National Signing Day, Eve, if you were joining us on the YouTube stream as we record this live. It is, it's about that time. Actually, |
| 0:58.0 | as we record this at 8.36 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday night. Somebody has already signed. |
| 1:04.0 | Oregon signed an Australian punter already because it's already 7 a.m. in Australia. |
| 1:08.9 | So can I ask you guys something? Because I don't know the answer to this question. Is the right way to refer to Wednesday National Signing Day? I mean, it kind of is. If you would like to refer to the first Wednesday in February as National Signing Day, you could. But that's not what most people are signing. If it was proper to write it in the story, |
| 1:27.8 | like this is National Signing Day, because I don't think it actually is. It is actually National Signing Day. National Signing Day is when most of the high school players who are going to sign sign, which is tomorrow. Okay. All right. So I'm going to write it tomorrow. If it's wrong, then I'm going to afford them to you. Who's going to tell you you're wrong? |
| 1:27.1 | I don't know. |
| 1:27.4 | Stupid people. |
| 1:27.9 | I've been in my comments lately. Only idiots would be, would tell you you're wrong about this because tomorrow is national signing day. So I just didn't know if I was an idiot because that's something I'm supposed to know. But, you know, well, we're going to take a lot of things you're |
| 2:01.9 | supposed to know, Ari. So we're here with Grace Rayner, who in addition to all of the amazing stuff |
| 2:09.7 | she's been doing at the athletic, has added a lot of recruiting coverage over the last few months, |
| 2:15.1 | some incredible stories, including one of my favorites. |
| 2:17.6 | Grace, we got to talk about this one before we get into what's going to happen in the next |
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