To all of you out there who treat Letter Of Intent Day like it’s some kind of national holiday, or worse still, one of the Holy Days of Sports…I laugh.

I hate LOI day

LOI day to me is like all the paperwork you sign when you buy a house.  Totally necessary, very important and so boring.  Just give me the keys already.

Of course the process of restocking your college football team is important.  I get that.

Oh, but these national ranking services (run by guys who live in their parents basement), projecting who won and who lost.  Who did well and who didn’t.  And the fans running around thumping their chest because their coach landed some highly sought after 18-year-old.

Last time I checked, half the 18-year-olds I come across can’t get my order right at In-N-Out Burger.

This time of year fans will say “(insert team here) got 10 Super Prep All-Americans, yea team!”  But unless you as a fan have spent the last two months breaking down all the tape of these 10 Super Prep All-Americans, what do you really know about them?

Jack Squat, that’s what.  You know what they tell you and all they tell you is the good stuff.

Take ASU for example.  This linebacker Vontaze Burfict.  Everyone says he’s all that.  I guess he has some kind of special You Tube video that shows him blowing up a bunch of 17-year-old kids.  You know, where the playing field isn’t level and he is a man among boys.  Is that an indicator of success?  Of the smarts it takes to play college football at the highest level?  Of being able to grasp the concepts the defensive coordinator preaches?  Will he stay out of trouble?

Think of it in terms of Major League Baseball.  How many can’t-miss-prospects….miss?  A whole bunch that’s how many. And LOI day is the same way.

It’s important to get good talent.  I get that.  And certainly the premier programs do well for themselves by getting as much of it as they can, knowing full well that some of the kids will work out and some won’t.

But blow-out-the-budget coverage dedicated to a day for which the results won’t be known for literally two years?

And don’t compare it to the NFL Draft either.  With the draft, I can watch a college kid play five times a year if I want and get an idea of whether he’s any good or not.

And one more thing;  I don’t think there is anything in sports I hate more than the cocky-18-year-old-who-has-three-different-college-football-caps-in-front-of-him-which-one-will-he-choose press conference.

Just what we need, empowering a bunch of kids to think the world revolves around them