You have to make sure that it's going to be a place where you want to spend the next four or five years of your life. Busy time Signing day isn't the only thing recruits are thinking about these days. Several of the area's top athletes are busy juggling late recruiting visits with other sports. Top 100 recruit, will squeeze in visits between track workouts and Bishop Lynch's trip to Arkansas for an indoor meet this month. Lineman picks Baylor Baylor picked up one of its biggest pledges of the recruiting season when La Porte offensive lineman Quinton Outland made an oral commitment.
Oral commitments are non-binding.
The first day a recruit can sign a national letter of intent is Feb. 7. Staying put Coaching changes had several area players thinking twice about their early commitments. Weatherford running back Mark Pierce and Plano East linebacker Barton Hammitt , however, said they are sticking with their original decisions. Pierce, on The News' Top 100 state recruiting list, said he would sign with TCU as planned, despite the departure of Dennis Franchione as head coach. Defensive coordinator Gary Patterson was promoted to replace Franchione.