[Farm93]

For football this will have tangible effects on the recruiting landscape - especially for the '21 class, whose early signing day is now BEFORE the season would start. Every year there are guys who blow up as seniors and land a few late offers based on the vastly improved new tape before the "normal" Feb signing day...but now those players will most likely not get that chance. Plus the recruiting services have little material to fine-tune/update their evaluations and rankings, which would typically continue through the summer and fall as camps and more games take place. It will be interesting to see the star ranking makeup when this year's recruiting cycle gets drafted, compared to a typical recruiting cycle.

That's all true, but the real challenge for the players in the 2021 and 2022 classes will be the scholarship traffic jam once colleges delay or cancel football.

Like CIF - the first step will be to postpone football into 2021.  
Then in December/January they will just cancel sports for the full academic year, as it is so hard to believe COVID19 will be in a good place in December.

Even if football has a spring season (unlikely) I suspect a lot of teams will redshirt as many players as possible for several reasons.

In the end I anticipate the schools will just keep grabbing verbal commits and then find ways to only find scholarship space for the very best athletes.

[Farm93]

For football this will have tangible effects on the recruiting landscape - especially for the '21 class, whose early signing day is now BEFORE the season would start. Every year there are guys who blow up as seniors and land a few late offers based on the vastly improved new tape before the "normal" Feb signing day...but now those players will most likely not get that chance. Plus the recruiting services have little material to fine-tune/update their evaluations and rankings, which would typically continue through the summer and fall as camps and more games take place. It will be interesting to see the star ranking makeup when this year's recruiting cycle gets drafted, compared to a typical recruiting cycle.

That's all true, but the real challenge for the players in the 2021 and 2022 classes will be the scholarship traffic jam once colleges delay or cancel football.

Like CIF - the first step will be to postpone football into 2021.  
Then in December/January they will just cancel sports for the full academic year, as it is so hard to believe COVID19 will be in a good place in December.

Even if football has a spring season (unlikely) I suspect a lot of teams will redshirt as many players as possible for several reasons.

In the end I anticipate the schools will just keep grabbing verbal commits and then find ways to only find scholarship space for the very best athletes.