Just seeing the coaches that oppose the early signing period should tell you all you need to know. Saban, Meyer, Petrino. The guys that live on over-signing and last-minute poaching would naturally oppose this legislature.
The thing is, nobody is forcing these kids to sign early, it's just an option. There are still going to be top recruits that love the attention waiting until the February signing day.
From one of the links in the story: "According to Bowlsby, research found more than 90 percent of recruits stay with their initial commitment and over 80 percent commit before or during their senior season." There's no reason a kid shouldn't have the option to stop all of the recruiting contact and return to their normal life if they want.
Also from the article:
"I think it's pushed by people that are in an area where most of their recruits are within a radius where they're on their campus all the time, they're coming and going to games," Petrino said,
according to the Louisville Courier-Journal. "
Here at the University of Louisville, we have to leave our borders to go get our players."
In-state players have to love reading that quote!