NCAA Recommends Recruiting Changes

Mavric

Mavric

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Modifications to the recruiting calendar in both the Football Bowl Subdivision and FCS include: 

  • Schools would have 33 evaluation days (42 for U.S. service academies) during the months of September, October and November, selected at the discretion of the school. Only authorized off-campus recruiters could visit a prospective student-athlete's educational institution and on only one calendar day during this period.
  • The Monday of the week that includes the initial date for the regular signing period of the National Letter of Intent through the first Sunday in March would be a dead period.
  • For U.S. service academies, the Friday immediately after the initial date for the regular signing period of the National Letter of Intent through the first Sunday in March would be a quiet period.
  • At the discretion of the membership school, coaches would have 140 recruiting person days (180 for U.S. service academies) from April 15 through the Saturday preceding Memorial Day for a contact period.
  • The Sunday before Memorial Day and the next three calendar days would be a dead period.
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In addition to the recommendations for the recruiting calendar and the first date for calling or sending recruiting materials or electronic correspondence, the model also changes the first opportunity for off-campus contact with prospects:

  • Off-campus recruiting contacts could not be made with an individual (or the individual's family members) before Jan. 1 of the individual's junior year in high school.
  • A school would be limited to eight off-campus, in-person contacts with a prospective student-athlete and the prospect's family members for the prospect's junior and senior years combined. 
  • Contact could occur only one time per week.
  • Contacts that occur during the prospective student-athlete's junior year in high school could occur only at the prospective student-athlete's educational institution. 
  • Schools would be allowed up to two off-campus contacts during the January contact period of a prospective student-athlete's junior year of high school. A school would also be allowed one off-campus contact during the spring contact period of a prospective student-athlete's junior year of high school.
  • The head football coach could make only one off-campus contact during the prospective student-athlete's junior year and one off-campus contact during the prospective student-athlete's senior year in high school with a prospect or their family members. The model would not change the off-campus recruiting prohibition of FBS head coaches during the spring contact period. 
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From Sept. 1 to Dec. 1, it’s deemed an evaluation period. You can host visitors on campus, but you also get 33 days where coaches can be on the road to recruit. So, if you have five coaches out, that counts as five days. You can also have your head coach out on those days, so it will be highly strategic on where Nebraska places Matt Rhule this fall.

How you manage these days will be critical in recruiting, as this is the only time coaches can be on the road before the Dec. 4 signing day. You can host visitors on campus from Dec. 9 to Dec. 22, though. Coaches just can’t leave campus anymore in December.

You can have coaches out on the road for a contact period from Jan. 6 to Jan. 12 and Jan. 16 to Feb. 1. The calendar is entirely different from what we’ve seen before.

Feb. 3 to Mar. 2 will be a dead period. Mar. 3 to April. 14 will be a quiet period full of junior day events and on-campus visitors. There is no change here.

During the spring, coaches can be on the road from Apr. 15 to May 24. That’s 140 days on the road, which is 14 per coach, where they can meet with prospects and their families. You can only visit a prospect once during the spring. May 25-28 is another dead period, while camp and visitor season will be from May 29 to June 22. This remains unchanged.

The other significant change is a longer dead period now in July. Gone are the seven days teams used to get to host on-campus unofficial visitors in late July. June 23-July 31 is now a dead period in 2025.
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BigRedBuster said:
Laughing about “no other programs can contact”.

Yeah….how are you going to police tampering and punish programs that do it?

That’s one of the biggest problems in college football right now. 
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I think the point is those will be more binding so it's probably more accurate to say "they have to go to that school so it won't do any good for other schools to contact them."

 
Mavric said:
I think the point is those will be more binding so it's probably more accurate to say "they have to go to that school so it won't do any good for other schools to contact them."
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Until the first lawsuit over it hits and the NCAA gets handed another L in the courts.

 
Red Five said:
Until the first lawsuit over it hits and the NCAA gets handed another L in the courts.
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I mean ... it could be.  But I don't know what would be the big issue with signing a contract.  And I don't recall there being a ton of lawsuits over the NLIs.

 
IMO guys just won't sign those until actually forced by the school. They'll commit, announce on social media, but take their time signing anything to allow offers to continue to come in without any fear of tampering allegations. 

 
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