I'll answer your question. The NCAA has been toying with the idea of allowing an early signing period, before prospects' senior season. This could be both beneficial or terrible for SU moving forward. Since recruits can only take official visits in the fall, you would have to convince a prospect to come up to SU on their own dime, which we already struggle to do due to distance, and hope that they loved the school enough to commit/sign. This means a prospect that blows up could already be signed to SU and we could hang on to kids like Harold Brantley that could previously flip to an SEC school before Feb signing day.
However, if the early signing period happens, you could also see the calendar get pushed up, with kids being pressured by the big schools to either sign or lose their offer. We'd also lose our ability to flip kids late from MAC schools or other programs as they're already committed.
This is also bad for the "late bloomer" HS Senior who blows up, and there might not be room in the class for that kid after the fact.
I'd prefer kids to be able to sign whenever they're ready to sign. Have an open signing period from the start of a player's senior year onwards.