It really doesn’t matter what sport you coach, the age of the players, or whether it is elementary school, high school, college, or professional … the team with the best players usually wins. That’s why this month in college football might be the most important month of all.
We are about 4 weeks away from National Signing Day, the day when most high school athletes sign with the college in which they will attend. National Signing Day is always the first Wednesday in February. College coaches will be burning up the phone lines 24/7 during these last 4 weeks to try to corral the top football talent. And since the explosion of social media, coaches will be tweeting, texting, Facebooking, and emailing until late in the night, 7 days a week. Nobody is happier when this ends than the parents and high school coaches. They are the ones that usually guide and mentor the young high athletes as they try to separate fact from fiction in the mountain of information directed at them over this last month.
I must admit, as a Head Coach during this last month, I might have embellished a fact or two about my school when recruiting against my competitors to sign that great running back or defensive tackle. Some coaches call talking about another school negative recruiting, some call it comparative analysis. Over the next month, the coach that is the best salesman is the one that usually survives the longest. And most coaches live by this motto as it relates to college football recruiting in January … “What Happens In Vegas, Stays In Vegas”!!!
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