The 2024 National signing Day is here and while the day may not carry as much significant weight as it once did in relation to college football due to the early signing day in December, there are still plenty of eyes on programs around the country watching to see where the country’s remaining unsigned top recruits may land. On Wednesday during a conversation on The Steakhouse on 92-9 The Game, Rusty Mansell of On3 shared some insight with Steak Shapiro on how the early signing day has impacted the traditional date.
“Those days are done, December’s a big deal. Kids are committing so much earlier now and getting done with this things,” Mansell said as he shared an example of how the Georgia Bulldogs had 22 recruits already enrolled by the February signing day thanks to the December period. And as the two continued their conversation on signing day, Mansell shared that Georgia Tech and second year head coach, Brent Key, appear to be trending in the right direction and the early signing day has the Yellow Jackets currently ranked 34th this year in comparison to 64th last year.
“I’ll give you three players that tells you Georgia Tech’s going in the right direction,” Mansell said as he highlighted Luke Harpring, son of former Georgia Tech basketball standout, Matt Harpring, Isaiah Cannon, who decommitted from Notre Dame to join the Yellow Jackets and Aaron Philo, who led Prince Avenue Christian to back to back Georgia High School Association 1A state title wins and broke Trevor Lawrence’s high school career passing yards, as some of the players that he believes shows that Key and his staff are “doing a better job in the state of Georgia,” and while they may not beat the Bulldogs when it comes to instate recruiting, they have to “beat the rest of the ACC,” he and Shapiro agreed.