Mizzou Recruiting: Early Signing Period begins today

The National Letter of Intent Early Signing Period begins today and continues through November 17th.

By signing a National Letter of Intent, a prospective student-athlete agrees to attend the designated college or university for one academic year. Pursuant to the terms of the National Letter of Intent program, participating institutions agree to provide athletics financial aid for one academic year to the student-athlete, provided he/she is admitted to the institution and is eligible for financial aid under NCAA rules. An important provision of the National Letter of Intent program is a recruiting prohibition applied after a prospective student-athlete signs a Letter of Intent. This prohibition requires participating institutions to cease recruitment of a prospective student-athlete once a National Letter of Intent is signed with another institution.

For complete details on the NLI and all rules and requirements, see the NCAA National Letter of Intent page.

An excellent summary of the ins and outs of the National Letter of Intent can be found at InformedAthlete.com, the site of former MU Baseball dad Rick Allen.

Here at SimmonsField.com we've been compiling a list of players who have made verbal commitments to Mizzou or who have been seriously talked about as possible or likely MU signees. Our current list:

• Corbin Berkstresser 3B; 6-4 210 R-R Lee's Summit Lee's Summit MO - PerfectGame.com lists him as verbally committed to MU Baseball, but most sources list him as a verbal commit to MU Football.

• Jake Busiek LHP; 6-2 180 R-L Lafayette Eureka MO -- Verbally committed

• Brett Graves RHP; 6-1 170 R-R Francis Howell St. Charles MO -- Verbally committed

• D'Andre Heggie 3B; 6-0 195 R-R Blue Springs South Blue Springs MO -- Verbally committed

• Brandon Platts RHP; 6-4 210 R-R Mason City Mason City IA -- Verbally committed

• Jake Ivory C/OF; 6-1 160 R-R Francis Howell HS St Louis MO -- Verbally committed

• Brett Thomas, RHP/SS; 6-2 190 R-R Oak Ridge HS, Oak Ridge, MO -- unconfirmed verbal commit

• Kyle Barbeck, LHP; 6-1; 191 lb; L/L Northeast Texas Community College ('11); Ole Miss ('09,'10); Blue Springs HS (MO) - Former prep teammate of Nick Tepesch, rumored to be planning to sign a Letter of Intent with MU

Some other names that have been mentioned as considering Missouri:

• Tyler Hunt RHP; 6-0 210 R-R Westran HS, Huntsville, MO- Hunt has been recruited by MU, but no word yet on his plans

• The StL Post-Dispatch lists the following as considering Missouri:
- Nick Gregory, SS; McCleur HS
- Chase Haslett, P/IF; Clayton, MO
- Daniel Kraus, Webster Groves
- Sasha Kuebel, P/1B; SLUH