The vote: More than 77 percent in favor of early signing date
The vote: Over 77 percent in favor of early signing date

Published: July 6, 2008

The Oklahoman contacted all 119 Division-I Bowl subdivision football coaches and asked if they were in favor of an earlier signing date for high school athletes. Here's a look at the results:

Air Force (Troy Calhoun)

Akron (J.D. Brookhart)

Alabama (Nick Saban)

Arizona (Mike Stoops)

Arkansas St. (Steve Roberts)

Auburn (Tommy Tuberville)

Boise State (Chris Petersen)

Boston College (Jeff Jagodzinski)

Bowling Green (Gregg Brandon)

BYU (Bronco Mendenhall)

Buffalo (Turner Gill)

Central Florida (George O'Leary)

Central Michigan (Butch Jones)

Cincinnati* (Brian Kelly)

Clemson (Tommy Bowden)

Colorado* (Dan Hawkins)

Connecticut (Randy Edsall)

East Carolina (Skip Holtz)

Eastern Michigan (Jeff Genyk)

Fla. International (Mario Cristobal)

Florida State (Bobby Bowden)

Fresno State* (Pat Hill)

Georgia (Mark Richt)

Georgia Tech (Paul Johnson)

Hawaii* (Greg McMackin)

Houston (Kevin Sumlin)

Indiana (Bill Lynch)

Iowa (Kirk Ferentz)

Iowa St. (Gene Chizik)

Kansas (Mark Mangino)

Kent State (Doug Martin)

Kentucky (Rich Brooks)

La.-Lafayette (Rickey Bustle)

LSU (Les Miles)

Louisiana Tech (Derek Dooley)

Louisville (Steve Kragthorpe)

Marshall (Mark Snyder)

Maryland (Ralph Friedgen)

Memphis* (Tommy West)

Miami (Randy Shannon)

Miami Ohio (S. Montgomery)

Michigan (Rich Rodriguez)

Minnesota (Tim Brewster)

Mississippi (Houston Nutt)

Mississippi St. (Sylvester Croom)

Missouri (Gary Pinkel)

Navy (Ken Niumatalolo)

Nebraska (Bo Pelini)

New Mexico (Rocky Long)

North Carolina (Butch Davis)

North Carolina St. (Tom O'Brien)

North Texas (Todd Dodge)

Northern Illinois (Jerry Kill)

Notre Dame* (Charlie Weis)

Northwestern (Pat Fitzgerald)

Ohio State+ (Jim Tressel)

Oklahoma (Bob Stoops)

Oklahoma State* (Mike Gundy)

Oregon State+ (Mike Riley)

Pittsburgh (Dave Wannstedt)

Purdue (Joe Tiller)

Rutgers (Greg Schiano)

San Jose State (Dick Tomey)

SMU (June Jones)

Southern Miss (Larry Fedora)

Syracuse (Greg Robinson)

Temple* (Al Golden)

Tennessee (Phil Fulmer)

Texas* (Mack Brown)

Texas A&M (Mike Sherman)

TCU (Gary Patterson)

Toledo (Tom Amstutz)

Tulane (Bob Toledo)

Tulsa (Todd Graham)

UCLA (Rick Neuheisel)

UAB (Norm Reilly)

Utah (Kyle Whittingham)

Utah State (Brent Guy)

Vanderbilt (Bobby Johnson)

Virginia (Al Groh)

Virginia Tech (Frank Beamer)

Wake Forest (Jim Grobe)

Washington State (Paul Wulff)

Western Michigan (Bill Cubit)

West Virginia (Bill Stewart)

Wisconsin (Bret Bielema)

Wyoming (Joe Glenn)

* prefers August early signing date

+ status quo if not August

Arizona State (Dennis Erickson)

Arkansas (Bobby Petrino)

Army (Stan Brock)

Ball State (Brady Hoke)

California (Jeff Tedford)

Colorado State (Steve Fairchild)

Duke (David Cutcliffe)

Florida (Urban Meyer)

Fla. Atlantic (H. Schnellenberger)

Idaho (Robb Akey)

Illinois (Ron Zook)

La. Monroe (Charlie Weatherbie)

Michigan State (Mark Dantonio)

Middle Tenn. (Rick Stockhill)

New Mexico St. (Hal Mumme)

Oregon (Mike Bellotti)

Rice (David Bailiff)

South Carolina (Steve Spurrier)

South Florida (Jim Leavitt)

Stanford (Jim Harbaugh)

Texas Tech (Mike Leach)

Troy (Larry Blakeney)

USC (Pete Carroll)

UNLV (Mike Sanford)

UTEP (Mike Price)

Baylor (Art Briles)

Washington (Tyrone Willingham)

Nevada (Chris Ault)

Ohio (Frank Solich)

Penn State (Joe Paterno)

San Diego State (Chuck Long)

Kansas State (Ron Prince)

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