Is National Signing Day as popular as NFL Draft Day?

National Signing Day has come and gone and Colleges all over the country are boasting and bragging about the star athletes they landed for their football programs. We now rank the National Signing Day for Colleges right up there with the NFL Draft with all the exposure and media coverage it receives. Rankings show Alabama with the top recruiting class in the nation for the 4th consecutive year. In the B1G conference, OSU, PSU, and MSU were in the top 25 in recruiting and U of M made a late push to get into the top 40. Even though it is important to land the top prospects from high school for your program, it is even more important to nurture and mentor and teach these young men how to develop themselves physically, mentally, and emotionally to be the best young men they can be on and off the field. Athleticism is only one part of being an athlete, you need to also be a team player and understand what your position on the team is and what is expected of you. Some Colleges year in and year out seem to land 4 and 5 star athletes and win allot of games and win a National Championship on occasion as well. And there are other Colleges that also land this 4 and 5 star athletes that have up and down years and win a major bowl game but never realize the potential their teams should have. There are also the collegiate teams that get some 4 and 5 star athletes but get more 3 star athletes that are eager and hungry to be taught and mentored and that bond and form into very good if not great teams when all these athletes buy into the foundations that their Head Coaches lay out for the team.  Some athletes as well as their parents get caught up in the pageantry and mystique and aura surrounding a university and its coach and go to that school just to go there and they may never play or play very little and realize that their hopes of playing professional football is just a pipe dream. A very low percentage of college athletes in football make it to the NFL. Hopefully the athlete has studied and got a degree in something that they can use to make a living once they are out of school and athletics is no longer an option for them. This is where it is very important for the Coaching staffs at these colleges to really care about the person as a student/athlete and help mold them into young productive people ready for society when they leave college hopefully with a degree and skills in hand!               @cupofjoeinthed