Today was the day, National Signing Day, the day when every college football team in the country got better. Duke’s David Cutcliffe addressed the media to discuss Duke’s class of 18 prep signees, using words like “thrilled” and “exciting.”
We “met a lot of needs.” From a character, effort and ability standpoint . .. Duke was “absolutely thrilled.”
Par for the course. But things have been far from normal this season and like everybody else Duke has had to be nimble, flexible, adaptable.
That includes all of those in-home visits that didn’t actually take place.
Cutcliffe called this a “unusual circumstance when you haven’t seen any of these young people in person in quite some time.