National Signing Day 2012: Which Committed Recruits Are the Worst Fits?

We forget in the world of recruiting that these highly sought-after players are just teenage kids and make decisions on a whim. They can fall in love with a head coach or recruiting assistant coach, a campus, uniforms, city or even a female at a campus.

Aside from academics and best fit for a recruit's future, a big factor in selecting a school should be a sound football-based decision. Sometimes players do not make the best football decisions and others do.

Here are a couple recruits that are bad pure football fits with their committed schools.

Cyrus Jones to Alabama If He Sticks at WR

Jones makes this list due to an "if." As in, "if" Alabama makes him a WR, which is where I would play him.

Now, of course, I'm not knocking anything about the champs, trust me, but you and I both know that the Tide's offense isn't the '99 Rams.

Julio Jones was an exception.

Cyrus Jones will have a lot against him should he be stashed as a WR in Tuscaloosa, since Nick Saban's offense starts and ends with a power running game.

Barry Sanders and Stanford's Recent Running Style

Sanders dazzled at the Army game, showing great quickness, agility and juice to scoot and scatter all over the field. I'm not saying he won't be fine on The Farm; I just have some reservations as to how he fits in Stanford's downhill style.

Think about the past couple Stanford backs: Toby Gerhart was a big downhill power guy, Stepfan Taylor proved he was willing to mix it up between the tackles, and so forth.

That's not Sanders' style; he's a perimeter guy. Look for David Shaw to have to alter the running game in Palo Alto a tad to suit Sanders' strengths.

Brionte Dunn in the Spread Option

What a roller coaster this recruitment was, right? Dunn's solid to Ohio State now, as I predicted a call or two from Urban Meyer smoothed him back into the Buckeye fold.

Yet, I question the fit.

Dunn is a big back at 6'1" and 220 pounds, with a straight-line, downhill style. Meyer's spread option scheme is based on speed and quickness.

That isn't Dunn's style. He's not Jeff Demps. He's not Chris Rainey. Some adjustments are going to be have to be made by both parties in this relationship.