Which is absolutely why I'll absorb every alive moment Wednesday breathlessly ecology every delicious, knucklehead moment of it.
I'm not traveling to apologize for it. I adulation signing day. I bless its absurdity. I abound in the arduous benightedness of it. It's our adaptation (and by "our" I beggarly anyone who worships academy football) of the NFL draft.
Is it a meat market? Yes. Is it a advancing anniversary ritual that should could cause us to amend our ability and catechism our claimed priorities? Of course.
But I anticipate the added important, cardinal affair is this: Where is uncommitted advanced receiver Dorial Green-Beckham, ranked No. 3 in the ESPNU 150, traveling to sign?
Signing day is a accusable pleasure. It's like watching "Jersey Shore" if you should be belief for your final in statistics. Snooki overpowers your will to accessible the book.
I'd never heard of Landon Collins, the nation's top safety, until he verbally committed to Alabama at the contempo Under Armour All-America Game in St. Petersburg, Fla. (By the way, in a lot of cases, a exact charge carries the aforementioned weight as a Todd Graham argument bulletin to his above Pitt players.) Now anybody has heard -- and apparent -- his mother, April Justin, do a "Mission: Impossible" affair and abjure any ability of his actions.
She wants Collins to go to in-state LSU. He wants to cantankerous the bound and Roll Tide. On Wednesday, if the letter of absorbed is faxed, we acquisition out for sure.
In the meantime, a multimillionaire arch drillmaster who just won his third civic championship has to semi-sweat out these final hours involving the Collins family. I adulation that too. It's one of the few times, if not the alone time, that Bama's Nick Saban isn't in complete ascendancy of a Crimson Tide football situation.
Seriously, is there a added aspersing action than the application of top academy seniors? And yet, about two weeks ago, Missouri drillmaster Gary Pinkel catholic to Green-Beckham's top academy in Springfield, Mo., in a helicopter. Because, I don't know, DGB had never apparent one of those aberrant aerial machines?
And abide anniversary Pinkel and his apprenticeship agents boarded a bus for the 168-mile ride to Green-Beckham's Hillcrest High.
Enjoy the aberancy of it all, DGB, because absoluteness arrives the additional you assurance the LOI. There will not be any added helicopters landing on your top school's baseball field. The recruiters and the recruiting analysts will move on to the next can't-miss kid, which is apparently arresting end Robert Nkemdiche of Grayson Top Academy in Loganville, Ga.
Anyway, this is it. This is the window of befalling for silliness. This is the time to authority us hostage.
Remember in 2001 if EVERYBODY anticipation No. 1-ranked Kevin Jones was traveling to assurance with Joe Paterno and Penn State? And again Jones showed up at his account conference, captivated up a PSU jersey, tossed it abroad and pulled off his sweatshirt to acknowledge a Michael Vick Virginia Tech jersey?
Remember abide year if active aback Isaiah Crowell tugged a Georgia ballcap over his dreads and again captivated up a bi-weekly puppy as a signing day prop?
Remember in 2008 if Kevin Hart staged his own signing with Cal? (He says he's signing a absolute one with D-II Missouri Western State on Wednesday.)
Remember in 2000 if Jonathan Colon active with Florida and Miami?
It's nuts. It's surreal. It causes ESPNU 150 quarterback Gunner Kiel to verbally accomplish to Indiana, again decommit, again accomplish to LSU, again decommit, again accomplish and accept at Notre Dame.
It prompts then-Tennessee drillmaster Lane Kiffin to allege then-Florida drillmaster Urban Meyer of cheating. (Meyer was austere of any wrongdoing.)
It creates drama, claret burden spikes and top-25 recruiting classes lists that can after beggarly nothing.
And I can't wait.
I'll watch the nationally televised and generally abominably choreographed account conferences in the top academy gyms. I'll appropriately abide the ball of the academy hats. I'll see players smile
with abatement and parents axle with pride.
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