Majority of college coaches favor early signing period

 
By Mike Baldwin
Published: July 6, 2008

After Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez convinced a wide receiver to switch his commitment hours before national signing day, Purdue coach Joe Tiller 's terse response ran in newspapers across the country.

"If we had an early signing date, you wouldn't have another outfit with a guy in a wizard hat selling snake oil to get a guy at the last minute,” Tiller said. "But that's what happened.”

Many football coa...


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