PROVO The usual hum around the fax machine and celebratory videos from Twitter and Instagram were mooted on National Signing Day at BYU.
The Cougars, who signed 16 players during the early signing period just a few days before playing in the Boca Raton Bowl in December, didn t go out and get a lot of extra high school recruits between then and the traditional signing day Wednesday. That s good, since NCAA rules have marked most of the past year of the pandemic as a unique recruiting dead period, with on-campus visits barred and contact limited to phone calls, text messages, Zoom calls and social media.