Chris Brown showed up on a Cal Poly message board in 2010. For most of last year, he was the team’s starting quarterback. By Owen Main

Tomorrow is Wednesday. It’s also the first Wednesday in February and happens to be national signing day for high school athletes who will play a fall sport in college next season.

Like lots of fans, signing day always piques my interest. It’s like the first day of a Major League Baseball season, when everything seems fresh and all fan-bases might have a good argument about how good they might be in the future.

Signing day is probably the most important day in college sports. Unlike the sports themselves though, fans have to wait sometimes years before finding out how great any signing day actually was. If I was less lazy or had less than one six month-old, I’d probably do some kind of analysis about a signing day from three years ago at a given university — perhaps like the Cal Poly football team.

At Cal Poly, fans should also be on the look-out for a list of volleyball and men’s and women’s soccer signees, along with football. I’ll try to post some videos tomorrow of the players who decide to sign in all of these sports.

No matter who signs where, tomorrow is one of the few days in sports that is really about all my favorite cliches. College sports fans will begin, in the best cases, a four-year journey watching an 18 year-old develop in whatever sport they play. For a day at least, all you see is upside.