The News-Gazette · Jan 30, 2019
Asmussen | Signing circus not needed to celebrate
Trinity linebacker Shammond Cooper poses for the All-Metro defensive player of the year feature on Monday, Dec. 17, 2018 at Trinity High school in St. Louis, Mo. Randy Kemp | Special to STLhighschoolsports.comChristmas Day for college football coaches used to come on the first Wednesday of each February.
That's when they would sit in their offices and watch their fax machines. Starting early in the morning, recruit after recruit would send in a signed letter of intent.
In 2015 and again in '16, then-Illinois head coaches Tim Beckman and Bill Cubit allowed me to be a fly on the wall during their recruiting harvest.