National Signing Day

Yesterday was the last day for colleges all over the country to get their recruits to sign to go to their school, aka national signing day. this is an exciting day for college and university coaches because this is the day that they finally find out if their hard work of recruiting all year long will finally pay off or not. recruiting is a long process for college coaches that try to get the best of the bets high school athletes to come to their university. this process has to be done very carefully in order to grab this certain recruit and have them interested in your school. the coaches have to watch a lot of video tape on the kids that are good enough and interested in that school. critiquing these athletes isn't as easy as one would think. there is a lot that you have to look for in a certain athlete. such as speed, agility, strength and overall football skills. once coaches become interested in these athletes they prepare visits for this recruit would go to the school to see what it has to offer. once they get beyond that stage they then schedule a date to go to that recruits house and try to wow them one more time before the recruit start making serious decisions about what school they want to go to. national signing day is a big day for college sports because we as fans get to see at first hand what kind of athlete this school is going to get and see what kind of investment the school is making on this recruit. for me i find it interesting because they have a show on it so i can see which kids they really drool over and see what they have to say about why they have made the selection that they have made. it was always a position i wanted to be in when i was younger, to be able to go on big time recruiting visits and be a big time recruit in the country. so much goes into national signing day and they always do a great job on covering the day and the most important stories. Some of the recruiters sometimes Tweet about their school status and where they might end up. it would be hard to find those tweets because there are so many recruits out there that put up posts about where they might end up. ESPN has covered athletes and their tweeting on the show. it would be called twitter tuesday but that mostly was covered during football season. ESPN likes to keep up with the technology and see what other athletes say. because it is so popular, it can get some of these athletes in trouble with what they say on their pages, thats why some coaches don't let the athletes even have a twitter account because anybody can see what yours saying.