The Rich Get Richer: College Football Signing Day

Tell me if you’ve heard this before…according to Rivals, the top five signing day classes belong to USC, LSU, Texas, Ohio State and Alabama.  Between the five schools, 18 5-star recruits and 63 4-star recruits signed up to join these factories and join the equal number of similarly heralded recruits from the last year, who joined the equal number of similarly heralded recruits from the last year, etc, etc, etc.

Not surprisingly, all of these teams, save perhaps Alabama, have regularly found themselves in the upper echelon of the rankings annually.  USC, OSU and ‘bama all have power coaches with a strong national presence and Texas and LSU are smack dab in the middle of the most talent rich region of the country, and I mean no offense to Florida, which is right up there too.   It’s no wonder these teams are normally successful with pipelines like these.

But it’s not just limited to these powerhouses…a quick glance at the rest of the early top 25 classes reaveals pretty much every SEC team worth a shit, with Tennessee having a surprisingly strong class considering their coaching turnover, and Florida and Georgia getting their usual haul of ridiculous skill players.  Oklahoma had a strong class, as did known recruiting mofo Butch Davis, bringing North Carolina another strong class and building Chapel Hill’s program in the same vein as he rebuilt Miami’s in.

Now, I’m not going to get into every single recruit and speculating the shit out of each and every kid, because, lets be honest, whenever 75% of these kids get good, we won’t remember their recruiting stars or any of that bullshit, and there’s just as much a chance of some 2 or 3-star kid becoming great (Buckeye homer alert…like James Lauranaitis and Malcolm Jenkins, two low rated players who turned out fantastic) as there is one of these kids.  Nobody knows anything at this point, and it’s just become a really cheap version of the NFL Draft, only if the Steelers, Pats, Colts, Cowboys and Giants all had the first five picks each and every year.

So what’s my point?

As if there hasn’t been enough of a divide in national perception between these football factories and the “middling” non-BCS/Big East schools, this rat race is nothing more than pouring gasoline on the fire.  As if any non-BCS school (no matter how many Boise State’s and Utah’s we get) had a chance at getting into the Nationa Championship game to begin with, there’s even a worse chance of them getting into a BCS game over a football factory.  Why would you pick Bosie State over Ohio State for an at-large bid?  Ohio State is full of players who were highly touted athletes coming out of high school and Boise State is full of a lot of Rudy’s.

Yes, I’m saying that Boise State (or TCU) deserved the Fiesta Bowl bid over Ohio State last year.

While every year some non-BCS team proves that it can hang with the big boys, and the playing field gets noticably more level, the end result is always the same…9 football factories in the BCS games, a Big East and ACC team and a plucky underdog.  No matter what the on-field results communicate, it’s the schools who always end up at the top of these recruiting class rankings that always end up at the top at the end of the season.

But, again, this is hardly groundbreaking stuff here.

I guess it’s just the nature of the business.  To be honest, the fact I even wasted my time writing this is kind of disturbing.  It’s accepted fact that these handful of well-funded schools will always have the massive advantage because of their national presence and the money they can bring the BCS cunts, so why should this fluffed up meat market be any different?  College football is nothing more than a beauty pageant and bragging rights go to the coach who can swindle the most talented teenagers into thinking the world is theirs…

…actually, I think I just wrote this because I hitched my wagon to one of the ugly girls.

Well…I should probably end this somehow…

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