The time-honored tradition of high school athletes proudly sitting behind a table and signing a national letter of intent is a thing of the past. Coaches reacted with a mix of shock and confusion to the latest end of business as usual in college sports. The NCAA announced the death of the letter of intent last week on the same day it introduced a newly condensed schedule for signing players out of the transfer portal. "We're getting blown up by recruits and we don't have any answers for them," Missouri football coach Eli Drinkwitz said. "We don't have answers for the settlement, we don't have answers for (NIL), we don't have answers for National Letter of Intent.

Source: Daily Sun October 16, 2024 23:14 UTC