NCAA Brings Significant Changes In The Recruiting Rules

This week, the Division I Council of the NCAA convened to discuss a variety of issues, including a significant reform that would impact recruitment in all collegiate sports.

NCAA Brings Significant Changes In The Recruiting Rules

New guidelines for both official and unauthorised recruiting trips will take effect on July 1. There will be no restriction on how many schools prospective students may visit during official visits. Prospects are only permitted to make one formal visit each school, though. Prospects will only be permitted a second official visit if there has been a coaching change after the first official visit.

Prospects in men’s basketball will still be permitted to take a second official visit, just as they have in the past, but the trips cannot take place during the same academic year.

The revised guidelines also state that official trips are limited to “no more than a two-night stay.” Schools are allowed to pay for up to two family members who accompany a prospect on a visit, as well as their transportation, food, and “reasonable entertainment”.

“For young people considering where to go to college, visits to campus – both official and unofficial – are an integral part of the decision-making process,” said Lynda Tealer, the chair of the Division I Council. “This was an opportunity to modernize NCAA rules in a way that provides greater and more meaningful opportunities for prospects going through the recruitment process.”

It seems like this will cause mayhem.

Without a cap on the number of visits players may accept, we might see some top prospects accept an absurdly high number. There’s no reason not to visit certain schools more than once at that stage before making a choice.

The one upside to this is that it could give some smaller institutions a better chance to sign prospects with higher rankings.

Recruits can start visiting more schools that they otherwise wouldn’t have even given a try if they aren’t restricted in how many they can visit. Smaller schools would then have an opportunity to attempt and convince them to enrol in their programmes.

Usually it’s a good thing when the NCAA decides to give up some of there control, but this might be one time when they should have kept things in check.

 

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