NCAA Passes Major Re-Vamp to Recruiting Rules

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1. Early official visits now a go - Prospects will be allowed to take official visits, paid for by the school, from April 1 of their junior year through the Sunday before the last Wednesday in June. Before the change, official visits were not allowed before Sept. 1 of a prospect's senior year. The change in the recruiting calendar becomes effective Aug. 1 and will first affect the 2019 recruiting class.
 
2. Early signing period closer to becoming a reality - The early visits are designed to work in tandem with an early signing period, which was not part of the agenda this week in Indianapolis. Conference commissioners, who administer the national letter of intent, are expected to vote on a proposed mid-December early signing period at their meetings in June. Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby, who chairs the Division I Football Oversight Committee, said he expects the vote on a early signing period to pass.
 
3. 10th full-time assistant coach now a go - self explanatory, effective this coming January 9th
 
4. Schools can't hire coaches from high schools with recruits for non position jobs - strict rules that mirror what is used in college basketball for individuals associated with prospects, or IAWP. The IAWP rules are designed to prevent schools from hiring anyone associated with a prospect for noncoaching positions. For example, the high school coach of a prospect is not allowed to take a paid or volunteer job as an analyst or strength coach at the college recruiting that coach's prospect. An IAWP is permitted to take a job at the same college only as a full-time, on-field coach. Penalties for violating the IAWP rules range from permanent ineligibility of the players involved to the suspension of a head coach or assistant. The IAWP rules are effective immediately and retroactive to include contracts signed on or after Jan. 18, 2017.
 
5. Camps are reduced to a certain time period - basically, the Jim Harbaugh rule. oaches can conduct camps from two 15-day periods in June or July to 10 days in June. It also requires camps to take place on campus or at facilities used primarily for practice or competition by member schools. This rule is effective immediately and essentially ends the lengthy, nationwide satellite camp tours like Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh's Summer Swarm Tour that became a hotly debated topic in college football the past two summers. However, the new legislation does allow for recruiting conversations to take place at camps and clinics, a change to prior rules.
 
6. Greyshirts / Blueshirts are done after you hit 25 scholarships - the limitation of annual scholarships to 25. This is a move to do away with oversigning and to reduce the practice of grayshirting, a tactic by which schools delay the enrollment of a prospect until the following January so his signing would technically count as part of the next class. The legislation limits to 25 the number of prospects whose aid is initially offered in the fall term of an academic year. Before, rules limited to 25 the number of prospects allowed to sign from Dec. 1 through May 31. This portion of the changes will affect newcomers in the 2018 signing class.
 
7. Summer dead period - new rules also create an expanded summer dead period for the entire month of August and from Monday before the last Wednesday of June through July 24. This allows coaches to take a break from the recruiting trail, spend more time with their family and focus on the start of fall camp in August. This portion of the legislation doesn't become effective until Aug. 1 and will affect the class of 2019.
 
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The Truth Hurts

April 14th, 2017 at 6:36 PM ^

Why would SMSB be over?   It's a camp hosted by HS coaches and the drills are ran by high school and some youth football coaches.   It can be held at a high school again and not Wayne State.   The camp is usually held the 1st week of June which is within the camping period.    The  college coaches can still come and watch the athletes, just can't run the drills.

 

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drzoidburg

April 14th, 2017 at 4:13 PM ^

I expect Harbaugh to counter by buying facilities in the south and holding a few UM practices there to bypass this rule

 

As for #7 oh yeah, the poor multimillionaire coaches need more vacation

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Erik_in_Dayton

April 14th, 2017 at 4:14 PM ^

How does it help high schoolers to deny them the chance to go to camps with coaches they otherwise might not get to interact with?  Kids want to go to these camps.  Jim Harbaugh wants to hold these camps.  His less hard working competitors - people who lack his enthusiasm and love for football - can go on vacation if they want.  Everyone won prior to this rule. 

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slimj091

April 14th, 2017 at 4:54 PM ^

I'm still holding my breath for the day that the NCAA pens a "Mark Dantonio Rule" which requires head coaches to smile during press conferences at least once a week.

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WhoopinStick

April 14th, 2017 at 5:11 PM ^

Is there a limit on the number of players that a school can host on official visits?

Is there any rule prohibiting a visiting player from partaking in a school sponsored camp before, during or after said visit?

Could Harbaugh offer official visits to 50 under the radar type kids, from say Georgia, and have them attend camp at Michigan?

If the answer to the first two questions is no, I could see this as being a way around the satelite camp ban as official visits can now take place in June.

 

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Blueblood2991

April 14th, 2017 at 6:50 PM ^

Nope. The athlete can only take 5 officials, but it's completely up to the school's budget on how many they offer.

Keep in mind, an official visit provides airfare, lodging, meals, and resonable entertainment to a recruit and two of their family members (sometimes they can get a waiver for four people if grandparents want to come). That cost adds up quickly, so usually they don't throw them around willy-nilly. Michigan does have a money advantage here, but if they start abusing it you can bet that'll be the next thing they vote on at NCAA meetings.

As far as unofficial visits, a recruit can pay their way anytime and as many times as they would like. The only stipulation is that they can't have contact with the coach if it is during the dead period (I believe it's the last week of June and first week of July for summer).

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gopherfan

April 15th, 2017 at 11:41 AM ^

That's not accurate. According to the NCAA's most recent Division 1 manual, football teams can bring in 56 official visitors between August 1 and July 31.

13.6.2.6 Number of Official Visits—Institutional Limitation. The total number of official visits a member institution may provide prospective student-athletes in the following sports on an annual basis (August 1 through July 31) shall be limited to: [D] (Revised: 1/11/89, 1/10/91 effective 8/1/91, 1/11/94 effective 8/1/94, 11/12/97, 1/12/99 effective 8/1/99, 10/29/09, 4/28/16 effective 8/1/16) 

(a) Football—56.

(b) Women’s Basketball—12.

(c) Baseball—25. 

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UMfan21

April 14th, 2017 at 5:25 PM ^

"The IAWP rules are effective immediately and retroactive to include contracts signed on or after Jan. 18, 2017."

 

We hired Antonio Richards somewhere around February 4th...so I guess that means we now cannot recruit anyone out of Prattville for the next 2-3 years until his kids cycle through?

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MichiganExile

April 14th, 2017 at 8:54 PM ^

This seems like it will seriously limit the ability of high school coaches to move up. How often do high school coaches move directly to a college coaching position before first being in a support position? Also no successful high school coach will be without recruitable prospects. Now they can't even apprentice in some way before coaching in college unless it's with a program that isn't recruiting their players? How exactly are they supposed to make those professional connections? Oh yeah they meet college coaches through recruiting. 

1) Sorry every D1 coach, you can't recruit my guys, I was hoping to move up in my career at some point.

2) Sorry parents I can't let these D1 schools recruit your kids it would hurt my career's upward mobility. 

3) Sorry loving wife, my career prospects are limited because I can't get a college position since I put so much effort into getting all these kids recruited. 

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OwenGoBlue

April 14th, 2017 at 10:23 PM ^

So we get: -Rules that hurt the upward mobility of non-college coaches -Fewer opportunities for non-college coaches to work/network with college coaches -Recruiting dead periods to respect coaches getting more spare time, obviously a major concern of the constituents involved - An additional professional coaching spot for each team Great deal for college coaches. Sounds like one lobby is driving legislation and it's not the one that should be.

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YoOoBoMoLloRoHo

April 15th, 2017 at 9:42 AM ^

more rules. He is extremely creative and resourceful, and he thinks about football 24/7. Pile on rules that will recstrict unimaginative coaches. JH will find even bigger solutions. Who else takes the team to FL for spring break or Italy for an educational opportunity? Nobody. [I think JH will turn the early official visits into a huge, new experience for recruits.]

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war-dawg69

April 15th, 2017 at 12:29 PM ^

It is very obvious that with an even playing field in recruiting the south knows they will lose big time. Nick Saban is by far the biggest cunt there ever was in college football and so goes his toadies in the ncaa. I have no idea how one conference runs the ncaa but it is pathetic. Saban would never win with an even playing field and he knows it. Anyone who supports him as some great coach well you are just wrong. Even playing field....Miami Dolphins....loser of course. I have zero respect for a clown who is so scared of equal competition with equal players. The truth is obvious and that is Jim Harbaugh instils fear in Saban and the south, or is it just our team colors. It isn't General Sherman and the union army coming to burn your city to the ground.LOL. Obviously the money and time reserved for camps will now be spent on officials and the early signing period. I think they screwed themselves because the biggest sell in college football is Jim Harbaugh. Pro bowl player and coach and there are no others in college football. Meyer is either scared or no one wants him. Nobody wants saban as stated before. Michigan has more money than most and will bring in all of the kids they want on officials with their families interacting with the coaching staff and coach Harbaugh. They will spend more time directly recruiting the top players wherever they are. Saban please lose a few more and fade away because you, the sec and acc are just flat out pathetic with regard to open competition. How do you raise your kids. Son always cheat so you win. The rules are not for us and we have no honor and we follow our own rules or in this case make their own. Grown men with absolutely no morals or conscience. No better than criminals. Reminds me of a officiating crew.

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