The process by which a college football player signs with a university is a labor-intensive, sometimes four-year courtship that ends on National Signing Day, either in December or February.
According to some coaches, it should end in a different way.
“It would help all of us and our high school coaches that, after Aug. 1 of their senior year, they can sign a national letter of intent any day they want with any school,” Auburn coach Hugh Freeze says.