ESPN: Urban Meyer criticizes NCAA policy

Regarding your second point - you are really looking into it way too much.

The compliance portion is pretty funny.  I will say with their track record lately though, I would have done that same thing, reaching out to compliance.

I think you do have a point with the Florida recruit thoughts.  I have to believe with the good guys getting a decent pick of the litter out of that state, and him figureing the Florida crew will just run to him, there is real concern on his end, and I can see him grasping at straws for a quick fix.....such as paid travel, etc...

with these quotes/excerpts.  I'm not saying that schools paying for camp travel is the solution, but I think he makes a good point about kids and their parents having to fork over tons of dough to travel to camp.  I know my parents couldn't have afforded that when I was a kid.

September can't come soon enough.

He did state he was actually going to call NCAA on eastern Michigan

I don't see any reason why a kid shouldn't be allowed to take an official visit anytime. You still only get 5, so use them wisely.

First point, I'm on board with you. Second one? not so much. I agree with bacon

They can just pay for kids to come on an official visit. He just has to wait till high school classes start up in the fall. Obviously he wants to see them up on campus earlier than that but its not like he can't get a kid to campus at all because the kid doesn't have enough money

Section 13.7.1 of the NCAA Division I Handbook:

do we really have to stretch so far to try and make him look like a fool? It's been like 11Warriors today. Make fun of him for sleeping with a co-ed or something, you don't have to reach like this.

But I agree with Urb. It shouldn't be a burden on kids to be recruited. If schools are interested, they should be allowed to pay to have a kid on campus in time to be in the running (we have seen first hand how spots can fill before official visits). Even it helps OSU, I can't be against Meyer saying something that transfers financial burden from highschoolers and their families to the schools.

pt. 2 sounds like he's trying to portray himself as Mr. Compliance.
I don't blame him with all eyes on Columbus after the Tressel fiasco

This must stop.

Recruiting has become a vastly different animal in even the last 5 years wtih the proliferation of social media and recruiting websites, blogs, etc.  Everyone wants to know why players from the west coast are not out to Michigan earlier to do unofficial visits (Cravens, Vanderdoes, etc) but for many is it just not financially an option.

I think that a fair alternative would be to allow recruits to take up to 10 visits to the school(s) of their own choice after they begin their junior years in HS.  This would allow for attending camps and an official or even two to the same school.  As the schools would be funding this, it is up to them to budget for and fund the visits and make the determinations on how serious the mutual process is.  

Many coaches want kids to camp to evaluate and get to know the players and vise versa.  As the recruiting budgets from ESPN yesterday shows, schools already self-select their level of funding currently, and this would most likely not really increase the costs significantly as coaches are already visiting many of these recruits multiple times across the country to try to sell them on an unseen product.

Just my two cents.

I don't really see what's wrong with what he said.

a single down for that team and I'm already tired of hearing about him and what he thinks about this or that.

Seems like there's already a process in place exactly for this - official visits. 

Of course that doesn't help when mom and dad want to come, too.  Nor does it address the acceleration of all aspects of recruiting, where so many kids are committing before they are even eligible to take those official visits.

And, of course every situation is different, and this may be an inappropriate sweeping generalization, but aren't you asking for problems with getting a kid from a thousand miles away when he doesn't have the means to travel back home or have his parents come and visit or see him play once in a while?  Seems like it forces the kid into a potentially lonely on-campus existence that could result in a messy transfer to a closer-to-home school later.

“I’ve known Urban a long time,” Hoke said during the Sound Mind, Sound Body football camp at Southfield High School. “We’ve got a good relationship."

Hoke is high-road all the time. 

Recruits notice that.  So too do parents.

Hoke is 100% class act.

Actually his statement makes less sense now then ever. Coaches now a days should need these camps less then ever with all the film of these kids.

If OHIO needs to provide cars to athletes so they can get to practice/class, what will Urb recommend recruits need to make it to campus from so far away?  Limousines, helicopters, private jets?  And I'm sure he'll feel it necessary to provide a nice co-ed for the trip, you know, since they might get lonely being so far away from home and all.  I mean, he needed a co-ed with all his job stress, travel, and long hours. I mean, it only makes sense that these high school boys would need one too.  What a slime ball............