More changes could be on the way to college football recruiting.
On Tuesday, FootballScoop.com reported that a potential June signing period is being considered and could be adopted as soon as next month when the proposal goes up for a vote. That would pave the way for a multi-day signing period beginning in June 2025, which would go into effect for Class of 2026 recruits.
Currently, recruits can sign during a three-day window in December or any time following the first Wednesday in February. Earlier this spring, The Collegiate Commissioners Association — which oversees and administers the National Letter of Intent program that schools and recruits use to make verbal commitments official and binding — announced a change to the December period for the 2025 recruiting cycle.
Instead of the signing period beginning the third Wednesday in December, it will now take place the first Wednesday (Dec. 4) of the month and run for three days prior to conference championship games that weekend.
“The biggest reason we’re doing this is to clear up the football recruiting calendar so the signing period and the transfer portal don’t overlap,” Tom Wistrcill, the Big Sky commissioner who also serves as the chairman of the National Letter of Intent subcommittee, told The Athletic. “The feedback we’ve received from all coaches is that December is a mess. Especially with the expansion of the CFP coming next year, that just creates more chaos in December. This should help.”
Another signing period brings its own pros and cons
The June period would add another wrinkle to recruiting cycles beginning with the 2026 class. Thousands of official visits take place across the country during that month currently, with it becoming one of the most active months of the entire recruiting cycle already.
Under the proposal for the all-new June signing opportunity, the new period would take effect for the 2026 signing class and open on June 25, 2025, for a three-day window, according to FootballScoop. The calendar would call for June 22-30 to become an NCAA dead period, with the signing window opened June 25-27.
That would force coaching and recruiting staffs to get official visits locked in during May or the first three weeks of June, causing recruits to either cut down their number of official visits or wait until the later signing periods.
“We’ve already been pretty much told that’s coming down the pike,” one college program’s general manager told FootballScoop.
One other potential pitfall of the early period is that recruits who do choose to sign in June could then request a release from their National Letter of Intent later on if their future coach is fired or hired away to another job.
“A June signing period is problematic for the coaching carousel,” said a Power 4 Conference GM.
The proposed changes to the recruiting calendar would take effect as soon as December for 2025 recruits, with the movement of the December signing period up to the first week of the month all but certain.
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