The NCAA approved a proposal today that will create an early signing period to coincide with the traditional junior college signing day. In 2017, that will be December 20th, and the new window will last three days.
Before we get into the rest of this post, a few words about who actually benefits and loses from this rule. Northern schools (yes, that means Minnesota) will benefit. Southern schools and schools with particularly stringent academic standards stand to lose. How do we know this? Because historically northern schools have been supportive of this change and southern schools and Stanford have been opposed.