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Chris Landry Talks College Football Signing Periods · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Chris, let me ask you, this is shift gears real quick to college
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  and we still got a ways to go. We still got to go through
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  spring practice, see what turns out with the transfer portal and such. What
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  is your thoughts on a potential three, you know, buy three annual signing
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  period for college football. I've always believed in having an early signing day in
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  the summer and then having the regular signing day. I would move it back
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  to late February. I just think giving it a little bit more time for
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  coaches, coaching changes, and things like that to to to sign Having it
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  in December early December, all that does is eliminate some of the chaos of
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  giving you basically would give them basically a seven day or ten day window for
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  the players before the playoffs. As we all know, playoffs are starting,
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  so that the playoffs are going to be sooner. So getting that done so
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  that you're not dealing with signing day, getting ready for the playoffs, coaching
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  changes all at once. It alleviates some of it. So I understand what
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  they're doing. I just don't think it's enough. I think they need to
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  look at a couple of other options. There's a lot of viewpoint to the
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  pushback against what I've suggested having an early signing day in August for the high
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  school kids that want to get it out of the way, because if you
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  think about it, you know how many of them are going to want to
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  sign if they don't know what the future is with coaches on the staff leaving.
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  I don't know that it would do a whole lot. I'm willing to
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  try it, but I don't know that that's getting a lot of push,
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  although that's at least under discussion. I'm always the believer in the calendar in
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  college football is just awful, and I think as we add the playoffs,
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  we have to understand that one of the real issues that I have and where
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  I think they should take owners from the NFL is have the season and have
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  everything kind of matriculate towards the season, and then have the end of season.
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  Now, it's complicated in college because you've got school and you've got kids
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  that have to be enrolled for the second semester and all of that, but
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  I think they need to look at it. I just don't know that I'm
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  on board for a December signing day at all. I don't like it.
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  I didn't like it and still don't like it. Where they're moving it.
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  Maybe it's better than earlier than later, like better December fourth than December twentieth,
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  but it's not good in my view. I just think given a little
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  bit more time is better. And then if somebody wants to sign early.
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  The other thing is, I'm not so sure that there's anything wrong with saying.
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  Look, if a kid wants to sign anytime in the fall, if
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  he's committed, let him sign. Why does he have to wait? Let
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  him sign? Let him sign in October he decides, that's as simple as
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  handing it in. I think that all needs to be looked at in my
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  view. Make sure to find him on x at Landry Football also landryfootball dot
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  com. Chris, I appreciate your time as always. Good stuff. Look,
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  we'll catch up and we'll talk through some other stuff next Monday. I
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  appreciate it. Hey, thanks for having me. Appreciate you