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Many hands get wrung over college football's national signing day, because odd things happen: one recruit's mama runs off with his letter of intent,* or another recruit announces via a T-shirt that looks to have been airbrushed at the county fair, or any number of young men mangle the school they're about to attend and call it something like "The University of Clemson."
*This story gets weirder by the hour – now the late Johnnie Cochran's law firm is involved. I'll let the great LSUFreek take it from here.
National signing day is bizarre, uncomfortable, and a little creepy. So I think we should double down on this thing.
What we really need is an NFL Signing Day.
Ditch the draft. Let teams recruit...
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