{"id":1990,"date":"2010-11-19T09:26:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T15:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:24:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:24:32","slug":"early-signing-period-is-exciting-but-recruiting-season-far-from-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/early-signing-period-is-exciting-but-recruiting-season-far-from-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Signing Period is Exciting, but the Recruiting Season is Far from Over"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unsigned Seniors Don’t Panic, There’s Still Time to Connect with Coaches<\/strong><\/p>\n

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According to Chuck Wynne,\u00a0the NCAA’s Director of Communication Strategy, approximately 36,000 seniors will sign National Letters of Intent (NLI) this school year.\u00a0 Nearly 11,000 of those signees have inked NLI’s during the\u00a0Early Signing\u00a0Period (ESP) this past week or about 31%.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

That’s good news for the thousands of prospects who, when seeing and reading about other prospects around their area and the country signing NLI’s and posing for\u00a0the media following their signing ceremonies, tend to panic while wondering if their opportunity to secure a scholarship has passed.\u00a0 Nothing could be\u00a0further from the truth.<\/p>\n

Many college coaches do indeed attempt\u00a0to sign their top recruits during the ESP.\u00a0 They want to put the process and\u00a0pressure behind them and concentrate on their current team and the next recruiting class.\u00a0 But it is, in fact, rare to see a coach sign an entire recruiting class during the ESP.<\/p>\n

Things happen.\u00a0 Prospects expected to sign sometimes change their minds.\u00a0 Some kids choose to wait until the Late Signing\u00a0Period to see if additional offers surface.\u00a0\u00a0 Coaches\u00a0make offers to higher level prospects, which they have no realistic chance of signing.\u00a0 And, some coaches simply prefer only to sign a few recruits during the ESP.\u00a0 They know from experience there will be “floaters” available.\u00a0 These\u00a0are the kids who believed that offers from their favorite schools would materialize but didn’t,\u00a0leaving the kids hanging onto a\u00a0dream and a prayer\u00a0without other options.\u00a0\u00a0In short,\u00a0nearly every college team in America has\u00a0roster openings\u00a0following the ESP.<\/p>\n

Then there are the real life\u00a0surprises which inevitably\u00a0occur to a team.\u00a0 These are the out-of-the-blue things no one expects, or hopes will befall a player, coach, and team.\u00a0\u00a0Check out a few of these surprises which happen every year:<\/p>\n