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Actions speak louder than words during recruiting process

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com

Monday, February 4, 2008

What's the only thing in football that's worth less than a big favorite in a big game in University of Phoenix Stadium? A verbal commitment from a college recruit. Wednesday marks a national holiday for college football recruitniks, when players sign letters of intent. For fans who have obsessed over the whims of teenagers for months, it should be a day of immense relief. Those signed letters are binding. Young men who have changed their mind more often than Hamlet finally have to put it i ...

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