Getting Caught Up: The Current Top 11 and the State of the Union for College Basketball Right Now

By Scott Polacek:

The Super Bowl is officially over America. Somehow, we are supposed to survive the monotony of our daily lives for the next seven to eight months without football waiting for us on the weekends. I guess we could spend more times with our wives, girlfriends, families, friends, neighbors, or whatever other people I am leaving out, but I have a better suggestion.

Become consumed by college basketball (I would say pro basketball, but I prefer my athletes to actually try their hardest before the playoffs – silly me).

Sure, it’s never going to replace the thrill of watching your favorite teams on Sunday or singing your school’s fight song on Saturday, but it beats being an actual productive person who lives up to his or her responsibilities. It also beats sitting at your computer screen and constantly pressing the refresh button on the Eagles or Cowboys message boards, anxiously awaiting VickFan36’s 140 character take on the upcoming NFL Combine.

There may even be some things you like.

2012 National Signing Day

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by Scott Polacek:

Most of the time our society would probably frown upon a day that is basically dedicated to full grown adults fawning over and watching each and every move of a group of 17 to 18 year old kids. Most of the time our society would probably frown upon the idea of a day that is predicated on representatives of institutes of higher learning traveling around the nation in private jets with the sole purpose of begging high school students to follow them back to campus and play sports for their school.

Of course, national signing day is not most of the time. Not even close.

Every February, national signing day rolls around and, just like clockwork, the rabid fan bases of America’s powerhouse college football programs make it through another day of work by dreaming about their schools’ future stars taking the field and bringing ol’ State U back to glory. This year is no different.

There are a number of intriguing story lines surrounding national signing day 2012 but, as always, it all boils down to the overall class rankings (disclaimer: nobody takes the recruiting rankings at ESPN seriously – except, of course, the worldwide leader itself - so neither will I). As of signing day afternoon, the top ten classes according to Scout.com are as follows: