Why Not Make Changes

I had a very tough time watching ESPNU's wall to wall coverage of college football signing day.  I don't think they have any more idea who had a good day signing players than I do and I didn't know 20 names they called out all day.  But, why is the first Wednesday of the month of February  is the day that high school prospects must all fax in their letters of intent?  Several players are already enrolled in school from early high school graduations so there is no big rush that yesterday had to be the day. If they are already in school  they should be under scholarship

Why don't they have the last day to sign not the first?  Many players  failed to send in their letters and yet I don't see anybody committing Hari Kari.  I think this is another made for TV show because ESPN networks need to fill 24 hours a day.

It sure does seem to me that all colleges looking for new coaches could at least wait until the Bowl season is over before they find new coaches.  I would like to see teams play their bowl games with the coaches who got them to the dance not some assistant coach left holding the bag after either the school has fired the coach or the head coach has skipped  town at a new job.

They will tell you it is so they can have a coach in place by signing day so he can hit the recruiting trail.  If April 30th was the last day to turn in your letter of intent there would be no need to get a coach in place so quickly.  Those of us who work for a living also know that when there is a job opening it takes forever to fill  that job with all the requirements to find the right person.  How can colleges find the right person in a week?

I just don't understand why NFL teams as soon as they are knocked out of the playoffs  fire their coaches and hire a new one when probably the best coaches are still in the playoffs and some of them are going to win the Super Bowl.  It is a disadvantage for  a coordinator to be in the Super Bowl because all the jobs are gone.  Who would you rather have somebody that just got fired last week  or a coach that just showed they can win the big one?

72 hours after the Super Bowl yes I think it was holding in the end zone but like I said just a few days ago  with the way the rules are enforced these days who knows what they are going to call if they call anything.  My biggest question is why did the 49's run three straight plays and never try to get  their quarterback rolling with the run/pass threat.  I don't think the refs lost the game but a bad job of coaching lost it.

I can't understand almost four days since the Super Bowl ended they still don't know why the lights went out.  I think there was a conspiracy.  The Ravens were about to make it a lopsided game and if people started turning away then the rates on the TV ads would start falling.  I bet if they finger printed the electrical box they will find finger prints of somebody from CBS who pulled the plug knowing once the lights went out it would take a while  for they to come back on.

I heard this at lunch one day this week on the Colin Cowherd show.  The NCAA national championship game had a 16.5 rating which are huge numbers.  The 35 minutes the lights were out  the TV ratings were 46.5 or three times higher than the National Championship game.  Where's Barney Fife and his finger print kit?