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As we approach National Signing Day 2012, I can’t help but marvel at the way college football fans have turned this into their Christmas, hoping to unwrap new recruits like WR Dorial Green-Beckham, DT Eddie Goldman and WR Stefon Diggs, just to name a few of the undecideds.
The difference between the coverage of recruiting now and my freshman year at the University of Michigan in 2001 is really hard to fathom.
I still remember writing my first article for the school’s student newspaper on the decision of the No. 1 recruit in the country, WR Reggie Williams, between Washington and Michigan (he chose the Huskies).
The only reason I was allowed to co-byline the story is that few people paid attention to recruiting and no one had heard of Williams.
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