It’s another week of the Mountain West Recruiting Roundup.
The February signing day takes place this Wednesday. For many years, this was signing day, and it was when the vast majority of players signed their letters of intent. As most know, things have dramatically changed. Now, nearly all high school recruits sign in December, and teams focus on bringing in transfer players. While it would be nice to basically turn the two days into a high school signing period and a predominantly transfer signing period,
it doesn’t work out that way due to the academic calendar. Coaches want players who can be enrolled for the spring semester, which starts for every school well before February. All of that leads to the question: what is the point of the February deadline?
The answer isn’t clear these days. Some teams will still bring in a few high school players, but this is mostly reserved for either academy teams like Air Force, or teams with new head coaches who had to rebuild their classes. While some teams may use this day to officially announce their class of transfers, even that becoming less common because teams can still add players over the next few months.
The February signing day is still full of nostalgia, but it’s short on substance.
As for this week, the offers were plenty. In an attempt to track all the offers but still attend to other projects, offers were tracked by team but individual names were not highlighted. This may be more common going forward. 11 of the 12 teams had a reported offer, with five teams having 35 or more this past week, and three teams handing out over 70 offers.
As for the cover photo, it goes to Colorado State for having a reported 81 total offers.
Class of 2026 Cover Photo Total:
- Hawaii: 6
- Boise State: 5
- Colorado State: 5
- San Diego State: 5
- Nevada: 4
- New Mexico: 4
- UNLV: 4
- Wyoming: 4
- Air Force: 3
- Fresno State: 3
- San Jose State: 3
Recruiting Calendar:
Starting today and extending through the rest of January, we are in a contact period (except for a dead period of Jan 12-14). This is the most open of the recruiting periods. All communication and contact is allowed, on or off campus.
Next College Student Athlete defines it as:
The NCAA Contact Period is exactly what it sounds like—all communication between athletes and coaches is fair game. Coaches can email, text, call, direct message, and generally contact athletes and their parents through any NCAA-approved method. In-person contact can occur on the college campus, as well as at tournaments, at the recruit’s school, and home. In other words, the communication floodgates are open, so take advantage of this opportunity to get unlimited access to talk to coaches.
Air Force Commitment Tracker:
Since the Air Force Academy regularly has by far the most commits among Mountain West recruiting classes, it’s fun to track them over the course of the year.
Number of Falcon verbal commits: 39 signees
Commitment Spotlight:
Visit Recap:
Recruiting Updates:
Offers:
Note: Trying something new to capture all the offers going on this week.
- Air Force:
- Boise State: 40
- Colorado State: 81
- Fresno State: 4
- Hawaii: 11
- Nevada: 16
- New Mexico: 70
- San Diego State: 35
- San Jose State: 1
- UNLV: 76
- Utah State: 8
- Wyoming: 4
Visits
Commits:
(Note, this will only track signed transfer commits announced by the team, as things can change before becoming official)
- OL Scott Johnson: Air Force
Decommits
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