Happy Signing Day!!!

For those of you that don't know- tomorrow, well actually in less than 12 hours is NATIONAL SIGNING DAY!!!!! I know you thinking I've gone off the deep end, but really, tomorrow changes the lives of many aspiring young men and the course of the next 4-5 years of college football. Who is your favorite school going to get? At our house, duck season was over 9 days ago, so for the past 9 days, this has been our hunt. Who are we going to get. How many stars do they have (the rank of these players on a national scale). Sunday brought my husbands blackberry buzzing with 4 amazing and exciting recruits. Over the course of the Ed Orgeron era-(the good: the recruits, the bad: the losses and the ugly: 4th and 1 up against state and changes the entire momentum of the game that we Lose) my eyes were opened to this exciting, unbelievable year-long process of recruiting and its importance on the future of your football program. ESPN writer Bruce Fieldman spent over a year tagging along with the Ole Miss Coach-known for being the top college recruiter in the nation and the rest of the Ole Miss staff as they struggle to catch the eye of the nationals top senior prospects. The book is called Meat Market: Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting. I read it in 3 days. It sucked me in-i loved it. Following these recruits and not knowing how much they will help or hurt your program for the next 4-5 years is gut retching. I was on pins and needles through the whole book. Anyway, back to tomorrow, our school (Ole Miss) has recruiting party's all day long along with it being on ESPN. these kids have a lot hanging on their decision and fans are sitting on the edge of their seats waiting on their decisions. For the past weeks all my husband is doing is worried about who we are going to get and who everyone is stealing away from us. I am anxious and excited about tomorrow but will be at work, so i will not have a constant feed about what these 17 and 18 year old kids decide to do. Hopefully we will get who we want and all will be good at Mossy Island, but if not, Thursday will still come. If your interested in reading another book, that was amazing and such a life-changing experience about a recruit is by Micheal Lewis. Its called The BLIND SIDE: THE EVOLUTION OF A GAME. It follows the life of Micheal Oher- a once homeless kid in Memphis that in a course of several months becomes one of the top national prospects in the college football world. This poor kid doesn't even exist but has thousands of letters offering him scholarships to any college that he wanted to go to. He takes you through the big dawgs of the SEC (BAMA and Tennessee) in recruiting and and in his decision making (ultimately choosing OLE MISS where he was an ALL-American and should be on the of the top kids taken in the NFL draft in April).

Well to all-HAPPY RECRUITING and Happy National Signing Day-may your husbands be happy with the decisions of teenagers that will affect college football for the next 4 years.