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If only someone had anticipated this...


https://gostanford.com/news/2017/7/28/fo...dinal.aspx

Q. Coach, what is your opinion of the new early signing period and recruiting, and how do you think that might affect the recruiting for the Cardinal?
DAVID SHAW: I'm still personally not a brobdingnagian fan of the early signing period. I think the earlier we make it, the more difficult everybody's job is going to be because there is a contingent of young people, recruits, that want to sign earlier, and I understand that, there are a lot of coaches that want them to sign earlier for their own reasons.

But I think what happens that we forget about, these are still 16-, 17-year-old kids. No one can tell me some of these guys still aren't going to change their minds between December and February. And when they change their minds, guess what, we're going to let them out of those letters of intent, because we've never held anybody to a letter of intent that really wants to get out, whether they have a legitimate reason or not.

So my thing has always been let's let the process be as long as it can be and let's give these guys and their families as much time as possible to make a decision and leave a late date to where they can sign.

Because, honestly, what's going to happen, my little crystal ball here, you're going to recruit and sign an offensive lineman. Great, he's committed, his family's committed. He wants to come. He wants to be there. The O-line coach may get a coordinator job someplace else, may become a head coach someplace else, now you might talk about changing the offense with a new coordinator and new line coach. Well, he may not want to play in that new system, so now we've created a problem in December that we wouldn't have had in February because he wouldn't have signed to begin with.

So for me it's created more problems than I think many people are seeing that are going to happen. So for me, these are still young kids. This is not a legal document they sign on signing day. This is a general agreement that I think needs to happen as late as possible, because they're still kids and they still have the ability to change their minds.

It's almost uncanny, no.  I mean, how could his crystal ball have mixed up a wide receiver with an offensive lineman? 

BC

[BostonCard]

If only someone had anticipated this...


https://gostanford.com/news/2017/7/28/fo...dinal.aspx

Q. Coach, what is your opinion of the new early signing period and recruiting, and how do you think that might affect the recruiting for the Cardinal?
DAVID SHAW: I'm still personally not a brobdingnagian fan of the early signing period. I think the earlier we make it, the more difficult everybody's job is going to be because there is a contingent of young people, recruits, that want to sign earlier, and I understand that, there are a lot of coaches that want them to sign earlier for their own reasons.

But I think what happens that we forget about, these are still 16-, 17-year-old kids. No one can tell me some of these guys still aren't going to change their minds between December and February. And when they change their minds, guess what, we're going to let them out of those letters of intent, because we've never held anybody to a letter of intent that really wants to get out, whether they have a legitimate reason or not.

So my thing has always been let's let the process be as long as it can be and let's give these guys and their families as much time as possible to make a decision and leave a late date to where they can sign.

Because, honestly, what's going to happen, my little crystal ball here, you're going to recruit and sign an offensive lineman. Great, he's committed, his family's committed. He wants to come. He wants to be there. The O-line coach may get a coordinator job someplace else, may become a head coach someplace else, now you might talk about changing the offense with a new coordinator and new line coach. Well, he may not want to play in that new system, so now we've created a problem in December that we wouldn't have had in February because he wouldn't have signed to begin with.

So for me it's created more problems than I think many people are seeing that are going to happen. So for me, these are still young kids. This is not a legal document they sign on signing day. This is a general agreement that I think needs to happen as late as possible, because they're still kids and they still have the ability to change their minds.

It's almost uncanny, no.  I mean, how could his crystal ball have mixed up a wide receiver with an offensive lineman? 

BC