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On national signing day, the hopes and dreams of high school football players come true.
For some, the rug gets pulled out from under their feet during the days that follow.
In what has become one of college football's ugliest traditions, the Thursday and Friday after signing day resulted in several assistant coaches around the country either moving to other jobs or getting canned by head coaches who used their recruiting prowess to lock prospects into their national letters of intent—documents that give virtually all the power to the school and none to the player.