SALT LAKE CITY — The 2018 football season hasn’t ended for most teams (save a handful, like Utah State), but coaching staffs will all begin to turn the page toward 2019 and beyond when they welcome in the first of their recruiting classes during the early signing period, which begins Wednesday.
Last year was the first time recruits could send a National Letter of Intent (NLI) to colleges in December, and the result was met with near-universal acclaim from college coaches across NCAA Division I.
Players are not bound by verbal commitments, so coaches will try to get as many recruits as possible to find a fax machine and submit an NLI this week.