T H E B I G P I C T U R E
READY
TO ROAR
Committed
and uncom-
mitted
prospects
gather for a
group photo
during an offi-
cial visit week-
end at Penn
State in early
December.
Photo cour-
tesy of Worm-
ley family
ames Franklin was all smiles on signing day.
But you knew that.
Every coach everywhere is smiling when
the last of those letters has come scrolling out of
the fax machine and it's time to do the signing
day presser. Doesn't matter who you signed.
Doesn't matter who you missed out on. Doesn't
matter what the internet says. If you finished
atop the rankings, as Georgia and Alabama did
this year to the surprise of absolutely no one,
you're happy. And if you finished at the bottom of
the rankings, as BYU did, finishing alone in 100th
place with only four players who received star
ratings from Rivals.com? You're still happy. Or at
least you're going to look happy on signing day.
"This is a wonderful group," coach Kalani Sitake
said at a Feb. 6 news conference announcing the
Cougars' class. "I'm excited for what they bring
to our football program."
That you can finish dead last in the rankings
and still offer superlatives at your signing day
presser is less an indictment of the rankings than
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