Duke Football Looks To Gather Another Strong Class On Signing Day

Wednesday is signing day for football, and with Duke's continued rise, we're naturally paying more attention to football than ever before.

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The strength of the program, the clear level of championship play in the post-season (even though the team has yet to win a bowl game, the level of play is worthy of championships) demands it.

Football's so different than basketball when it comes to recruiting - you can have a guy commit and keep taking visits, and there's the notion of a soft commit, which really isn't there in basketball. When you commit, you usually keep to it, though in recent years, we have seen a growing trend of young guys who flip flop a time or two.

Take Flinn Nagel, who committed to Duke but who will be attending Northwestern. It happens a lot.

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