Through the recruitment of Naperville Central defensive end Josh Jelesky you could identify several big ideas shaping college football right now.
There's an urge to commit early that has flipped the recruiting calendar to junior year. The SEC continues to lure athletes to its deepening talent pool. Once there, how exactly do you defend the spread offense? And in the offseason, will your head coach jump to another program? Through it all new media continues to repackage the game.
And then there's the story of the Nevada high school football player who completely made up his own recruitment, announcing at an assembly that he had accepted a scholarship to California. The only problem being that Cal's staff had never heard of this kid, who filed a police report, claiming he got scammed before finally admitting it was all fiction.
This is where we're at on Feb. 7, 2008. Does Signing Day generate too much hype? Is it good for the sport? Is it fair to these student-athletes?
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