As usual, the day after Signing Day is "We Need An Early Signing Period" Day. Teddy Greenstein of the Chicago Tribune wrote a good article on that topic.
I agree with Teddy and it's not just because I hate seeing teams steal other teams' recruits. That part of it sucks, but we are talking about college education here. This has turned into a huge game where the recruits are loving the attention and not really thinking about how their college decision will affect the rest of their lives. College football got itself into this mess and now it has to do something about it.
I propose an NCAA computer recruiting system! We can call it the RCS!
OK, a few more recruiting links before we switch gears back to basketball:
I agree with Teddy and it's not just because I hate seeing teams steal other teams' recruits. That part of it sucks, but we are talking about college education here. This has turned into a huge game where the recruits are loving the attention and not really thinking about how their college decision will affect the rest of their lives. College football got itself into this mess and now it has to do something about it.
I propose an NCAA computer recruiting system! We can call it the RCS!
OK, a few more recruiting links before we switch gears back to basketball:
- Tom Oates of the Wisconsin State Journal says UW needs a quarterback more than anything, making Jon Budmayr the most important incoming recruit.
- So anyone who has ever been to a Badger football game knows it's common practice to make fun of the 10-year-old soda vendors that roam the stadium. Well here's one that will be playing football for Wisconsin.
- Badgerbeat.com is having a round-table chat session about UW's recruiting class at Noon CT.
- Capital Times columnist and Badgers' radio analyst Mike Lucas compares incoming defensive end David Gilbert to former end Erasmus James.
- Here's a pretty cool map of where UW's recruits came from, courtesy of JSOnline.com.
- The Big Ten Network breaks down UW's recruiting class and talks with Bret Bielema. Look, I work for BTN, but if you had watched the recruiting show yesterday you could have easily assumed that the Big Ten teams were ranked 1-11 nationally. No one said a bad thing about any of the classes.
- By the way, there's a basketball game tonight. We'll have our preview shortly.
- And in case you missed it, Mariah Dunham was dismissed from the UW women's basketball team yesterday.