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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Arkansas’ Petrino dislikes ‘Internet recruiting,’ having to ‘offer more guys’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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You won’t find Razorbacks head football coach Bobby Petrino jumping onto Alabama coach Nick Saban’s webcam-recruiting train. Unless he absolutely has to, that is.
The former Falcons coach, now preparing for his first fall campaign at Arkansas, thinks online recruiting isn’t good for the game. Currently, football players must wait until the regular signing period between February and April 1 of their senior year to sign a national letter of intent. Petrino particularly dislikes being forced to offer a greater number of players than in the past, thanks to the cornucopia of websites available for showcasing the nation’s top recruits.
“I don’t like it. It is a trend, and it is because they’re reading people on the Internet,” Petrino told The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette this June. “We’re having to offer more guys because of Internet recruiting. That’s basically it.”
SEC coaches voted in May 9-3 in favor of adopting an early signing period of college football. Petrino was among the three voting against the measure.
But don’t look for a slew of early signees hitting SEC football fields anytime soon. The vote was only a recommendation to SEC college presidents and athletic directors, who tabled the proposal.
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