1 year ago - Dec 22, 2022, 1:29 PM
The early signing period for college football opened Wednesday and in many ways it looked the same as usual. There were surprising last-minute flips by blue-chip recruits, pick-a-hat commitment ceremonies held at high schools across the country and Alabama signing the nation's top-rated class. Hanging over it all, though, was the impossible to quantify but hard to ignore influence of NIL money impacting players' decisions.