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Derek Redd: College football coaches see no problem with December signing period

Welcome to the first days of the rest of your college football recruiting lives.

This year will mark the last that National Signing Day is just one day. For the next signing class, there will be multiple days from which to choose. The NCAA recently decided to add a three-day window in December to the first Wednesday in February for high school football players to sign letters of intent.

And while football coaches — men who love routine — will have to retool their entire recruiting strategy to account for that new period, many of them, from schools large and small, are in support of it.