Maryland coach Randy Edsall wants to change college football recruiting

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Edsall told the Washington Post that he’d like to prohibit coaches from offering recruits until Sept. 1 of the recruit’s senior season in high school. He also wants to transfer the power of scholarship offers from the football program to the admissions office.

“You’re trying to offer kids without knowing if they’ll graduate high school,” Edsall said. “People just throw out these offers and there’s not a lot of validity to it.”

This isn’t something Edsall just said off the cuff. He’s actually presented the idea to NCAA president Mark Emmert in a recent conversation. He said the new way of offering scholarships would put a greater emphasis on academics. Edsall said football programs would give their admissions offices a list of recruitable players and the admissions office would decide if the recruit is academically compatible with the school.

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/sorry-eighth-graders--maryland-coach-randy-edsall-wants-to-change-the-way-recruits-are-offered-scholarships-164625061.html

 
Pretty extensive article from ESPN on the topic. Lots of quotes from several coaches:

These days, college football recruiting is more about building a big lead and protecting it than mounting a late rally before the clock strikes zero on the first Wednesday in February.
Scholarship offers and commitments are occurring earlier than ever, well before either the question or the answer becomes official. Michigan's 2014 recruiting class, ranked 18th nationally by ESPN RecruitingNation, included only one player who verbally committed after the 2013 season kicked off. Tennessee's massive class, ranked fifth nationally, had 14 mid-year enrollees.

NC State and Boston College each recorded 20 commits for the 2014 class before the end of last June. Penn State and West Virginia reached double digits in commits for the 2015 class before the end of March.

Any coach focusing solely on the 2015 class right now is in trouble. If you're not working ahead -- to 2016, 2017 and perhaps beyond -- you're probably falling behind.

"Everything's sped up," NC State coach Dave Doeren said. "Kids make decisions faster and as coaches, all of us across the country are under the same gun, recruiting these players you want in your program. We can't really pick. They decide when they're going to commit."
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I dont have a problem with recruiting juniors or maybe even Sophmores, but when coaches dip into the Frosh or Middle School levels, and offer kids who have never even played a down of HS football thats where line should be drawn. I know a kid who commited to Iowa State for basketball at my school in 8th grade. He would say all the time he just commited to them get his name out there. Long story short he let it all get to his head and by 10th grade he was constantly in trouble with law and ended up going to an NAIA team.

Not saying if the commit early they are going to jail, just saying alot of kids use commits to launch there name and are worth nothing to program. I know it goes on even at senior level, but trusting a 14 year old with your commitment is absurd

 
Why would we want the academic side and admissions office taking up more of their time to something other than academics? The only thing they should be worried about is if the player maintains the grade and conduct standards to enter and remain in school.

This sounds like a football coach that has a blown up head about how important everything football is to the entire University. Believe it or not, people outside the athletic department shouldn't be wasting their time worrying about friggen athletes and who is going to get scholarships.

 
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