The recruiting show must go on, and it will.

The NCAA Division I Council's decision this past week to extend the dead period an additional six weeks -- through the end of May -- served as another body blow to high school juniors and their families looking to advance their college decision. They keep waiting on clearance to visit prospective coaches face-to-face while seeing football facilities, but the can has been booted forward yet again.

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We haven't communicated with or heard any college coaches who liked the move, either, which begs for why the latest delay was enacted in the first place -- but that's a horse we've already beaten pretty badly.