A Hot Mama

National Signing Day

ahotmama / BOYS!, LSU...Geaux Tigers!, Motherhood Journey, Sports /

Feb 2, 2011

Who cares about Groundhoug Day? Today is National Signing Day.

It is the first day a high school senior can sign a binding National Letter of Intent for college sports. National signing day is usually the 1st Wednesday in February.

For parents of great athletes, they are very familiar with this tradition.

But I am sure most moms don’t know or care (prolly too busy counting down to Valentine’s Day!)

But, I happen to be a major SEC football fan and naturally, so is Mo. He loooooves sports, in particular college football, especially LSU football (he has been coached well by his mommy 🙂 )

Today we spent the morning watching all the highlight reels of the guys who signed with LSU to play football.

It also gave us the opportunity to talk about setting goals, working hard, and earning scholarships.

Back when I was in high school, I remember guys just went to the library or school cafeteria and a family member or school paper took a snapshop.

But now, signing day is big business. It is really a major production for top recruits. ESPN does live coverage, top players and schools do major press conferences, and twitter goes wild each time a major recruit signs. It’s sort of like a male equivalent of “who wore what at the Oscars”. Assholes Analysts sit back and yap talk about which kid is going to what school, all their football stats, was this a good decision, etc.

My LSU TIGERS has a great signing day. You can check all NCAA schools here. If you’re a LSU fan, here’s our guys:

TIME	SIGNEE	POS.	HOMETOWN	HIGH SCHOOL (PREVIOUS SCHOOL)	HT.	WT.	VIDEO
1.	Enrolled	Zach Mettenberger	QB	Watkinsville, Ga.	Oconee County HS (Georgia/Butler CC)	6-5	250
2.	Enrolled	Anthony Johnson	DT	New Orleans, La.	O.P. Walker HS	6-3	294
3.	Enrolled	Kenny Hilliard	RB	Patterson, La.	Patterson HS	5-11	225
4.	7:45 a.m.	Odell Beckham Jr.	WR	New Orleans, La.	Isidore Newman School	5-11	175
5.	7:48 a.m.	James Hairston	P	Dallas, Texas	Jesuit HS	5-11	175
6.	8:03 a.m.	Jonah Austin	OL	New Orleans, La.	St. Augustine HS	6-5	320
7.	8:07 a.m.	Trai Turner	OL	New Orleans, La.	St. Augustine HS	6-2	334
8.	8:20 a.m.	Alonzo Lewis	WR	St. James, La.	St. James HS	6-3	205
9.	8:42 a.m.	Jalen Collins	S	Olive Branch, Miss.	Olive Branch HS	6-1	180
10.	8:45 a.m.	Micah Eugene	S	Lafayette, La.	Acadiana HS	5-11	185
11.	8:48 a.m.	Jarvis Landry	WR	Lutcher, La.	Lutcher HS	5-11	190
12.	8:55 a.m.	Terrence Magee	RB	Franklinton, La.	Franklinton HS	5-9	205
13.	9:01 a.m.	Corey White	OL	Baton Rouge, La.	Capitol HS	6-3	333
14.	9:14 a.m.	Ronald Martin	S	White Castle, La.	White Castle HS	6-1	182
15.	9:30 a.m.	Paul Turner	ATH	West Monroe, La.	West Monroe HS	5-11	185
16.	9:34 a.m.	La’el Collins	OL	Baton Rouge, La.	Redemptorist HS	6-4	315
17.	9:38 a.m.	Trevon Randle	LB	League City, Texas	Clear Springs HS	6-1	205
18.	9:51 a.m.	Stephen Rivers	QB	Athens, Ala.	Athens HS	6-7	198
19.	9:53 a.m.	Quentin Thomas	DE	Breaux Bridge, La.	Breaux Bridge HS	6-3	276
20.	10:50 a.m.	Mickey Johnson	DT	Covington, La.	St. Paul’s HS	5-11	310
21.	12:18 p.m.	David Jenkins	CB	Jena, La.	Hebron HS	6-1	179
22.	3:42 p.m.	Jermauria Rasco	DE	Shreveport, La.	Evangel Christian Academy	6-4	240