National Signing Day 2015: Five Things to Watch Out For
Jan 3, 2015; San Antonio, TX, USA; West running back Derrius Guice (20), left, and West linebacker Porter Gustin (5) with the game trophy after the U.S. Army All-American Bowl at the Alamodome. Guice was the game offensive MVP and Gustin the defensive MVP. West beat East 39-36. Mandatory Credit: Erich Schlegel-USA TODAY Sports
It is finally here. The national championship game was nearly a month ago, and we are talking about the anticipation of another version of College Football Christmas.
National Signing Day.
No, it isn’t the start of the new season. But it is the day when every fan base across the country gets to think that their team has put together the best class possible. We get to gauge the guys everybody picked up, fans get to brag about their best prospects, they get to call everybody else’s prospects overrated, and they get to talk about their own underrated prospects.
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Everything is exciting because, like the week before Opening Day, nobody is a confirmed loser on National Signing Day. If you have a highly ranked class, you get to brag about that until the cows come home.
If your class did not measure up the way you had hoped, you still get to brag about the players coming in and scream that they are underrated.
This year’s version of National Signing Day has some of the same faces staying at the top, but they are joined by a few old new faces, as in faces that once dominated recruiting but fell off and now are back, and simply some new faces.
Here are the five biggest things to watch out for as National Signing Day progresses.
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