Contact period - permissible for authorized athletic department staff members to make in-person, off-campus recruiting contacts and evaluations.
Dead period - not permissible to make in-person recruiting contacts or evaluations on- or off-campus or permit official or unofficial visits.
Evaluation period - permissible for authorized athletics department staff to be involved in off-campus activities to assess academic qualifications and playing abilities. No in-person, off-campus recruiting contacts with a prospect are permitted.
Quiet period - permissible to make in-person recruiting contacts only on the member institution's campus.
Remaining 2005-06 calender dates
December 19, 2005, through January 1, 2006: Dead Period
January 2, 2006, through January 7, 2005: Contact Period
January 8, 2006: Quiet Period
January 9-12, 2006, with the exception: Dead Period
Institutional staff members may have contact with
a prospect who has been admitted for mid-year
enrollment, provided the prospect has signed
a National Letter of Intent or other offer of
admission and/or financial aid to attend the
institution and is required to be on campus
to attend institutional orientation sessions
for all students.
January 13-14, 2006: Quiet Period
January 15, 2006, through January 28: Contact Period
January 29, 2006: Quiet Period
January 30 through February 2, 2006: Dead Period
February 3 through April 14, 2006: Quiet Period
April 15 through May 31, 2006, [except for (g) below]: Evaluation Period
Four weeks (excluding Memorial Day and Sundays) selected at the discretion of the member institution and designated in writing in the office of the director of athletics - (an authorized off-campus recruiter may use one evaluation to assess the prospect's athletics ability and one evaluation to assess the prospect's academic qualifications during this evaluation period.)
Those days in April/May 2006 not designated above for
evaluation opportunities: Quiet Period
June 1 through July 31, 2006: Quiet Period
Source: Bylaw 30.11.3 for Division I football calendar formula from NCAA 2005-06 recruiting Manual
Right now, we are in a dead period.