11.   For the first time in three years, signing day at UCLA did not include a string of superlatives, a top-five ranking or program-alteringtalent.

12.   FSU got highly regarded defensive back Rufus Brown and running back Nick Maddox on signing day.

13.   For the record, signing day is Wednesday.

14.   Georgia, no longer interested in lineman Jason Respert, hopes to add to its class on the eve of national signing day.

15.   He had held out hope that several top recruits would sign with them on national signing day.

16.   He was two months from national signing day with no recruits.

17.   However, stealing RB Derek Watson of Williamston, S.C., from Tennessee on signing day was a big coup.

18.   I heard it again yesterday, like every year on national signing day, the distant echo of Jim Wacker, pleading for mercy.

19.   It fosters a climate of uncertainty for student-athletes, enlarging the pool of recruits who might be bypassed for not having qualified by signing day.

20.   Lang then raised his asking price as national signing day neared.