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The new NCAA rules should help Minnesota sign better recruiting classes

Some big news was announced earlier today that should improve parity in NCAA and thus should help the Minnesota Golden Gophers recruit even better under P.J. Fleck:

DI Council allows early football signing period and coaches to recruit at camps and clinics, but restricts when and where they can occur. pic.twitter.com/tmL8aZcciB

— NCAA (@NCAA) April 14, 2017

The big news here is the approval of an early signing period for football. What does that mean exactly?

The NCAA’s Division I Council voted to approve a propsal that would allow an early college football National Signing Day rule Friday, setting up the Conference Commissioners Association (CCA) to give final approval in June.