NCAA passes revolutionary recruiting rules

None of the major powers wants an early signing period.  It's much easier to steal recruits from smaller schools than have other schools steal from Michigan.

would you like to see it?  Age 16? Start of High School?  Start of Middle School?  Birth?  or Conception?  Earlier signing date will not solve anything except push the madness forward.

He has already hired a team of recruiters ready to spam Michigan propaganda to the inbox of every high school football player in America. Grass is green, water is wet, and Michigan football will be just fine.

It CAN hurt us... But I don't think it will. I think Michigan Football has more resources available to it than almost every other program out there. It is at LEAST comparable.

So as long as Michigan is SMART about it, I think the resource advantage that we enjoy shall give us MORE recruiting advantages. Not less.

In fact, wasn't part of this NCAA regulatory overhaul a philosophic statement basically acknowledging that some programs will simply have more resources available than others and to try and equalize for those advantages is beyond the NCAA's mandate? That basically the NCAA wants everything to be fair ON THE FIELD OF PLAY, but off the field, it is open season?

To me, this sounded like the NCAA saying, "Start your engines," to the recruiting powerhouses. Like Michigan. I think it probably comes secondary to the wide distribution of talent across NCAA football that has allowed for Boise State (and even, gulp, Appalachian State) type success stories, but makes the lack of NCAA basketball sized tournaments controversial in choosing national championships. So as the NCAA Div I precipitates into superconferences, the decision of how much to "compensate" the weaker programs in order to artificially boost their abilities to recruit talent thar would otherwise be out of reach, falls to the superconference managers and NOT the NCAA.

Assuming the B1G leaves things deregulated, such that the Marylands and Rutgers recognize that their perks in joining B1G is strictly limited to a share of the network pie, but not an artificial boost in recruiting imposed by NCAA/ B1G recruiting rules to keep the big boys from using their resource advantage, i see this as good for us.

Good ole Nick will take care of the bill.

the potential for violation.  If its not a rule it can't be broken.

Monitoring phone, text and everything else was probably becoming a serious expense as well.

You're right, it could have a negative effect, and the good coaching staffs will be able to feel that out.  It will be interesting to see what happens.  Maybe it's just my naturally cynical self, but I don't think that's going to happen very much.  How many times do we hear news of recruits changing their favorites because a certain schooling is "showing them the love" more?  I feel like the kids like Poggi who at most tolerate the recruiting process as it is today are few and far between.  We're talking about a bunch of 16-18 year olds who are usually naturally impressionable and getting a ton of attention from huge name coaches.  I just think it's going to turn more into an arms race of contacting kids.  We may also see more early commitments if kids get sick of it, and then subsequent decommitments as other coaching staffs continue to contact kids.  Now staffs are going to have to keep contacting their already committed kids non-stop to keep them committed as well.  I do not envy coaching staffs with this one.  Probably will see more staffs with dedicated recruiting coordinators as well.

I'm sure it will find some equilibrium amoung the recruits who do or do not like the attention and the coaching staffs that do and do not give as much attention.  But frankly, the reason I really don't like this rule is because I don't believe it benefits our program like it does others.  I can have a rational discussion on the impact of this rule on the lives of high-school athletes and coaching staffs, but I couldn't give two shits about either if this rule would mean UM would win championships every year. 

If for some reason our staff has been thinking "if we could contact recruits more, we would have the #1 class every year", then I absolutely love this rule.  But I can't help look at the age of our upper level coaches and see the more "old school" additude, and then look to the south at our main rivals' upper level coaches' youth and general additude about recruiting and think this benefits them more.  Maybe (hope) I'm wrong.  Our coaches were very visible around the region when they first started and it was big help in land a great first class.

Not sure...ask Musberger.

Is the get kids to choose your school.  I imagine that coaches will quickly figure out if a kid is feeling that the contact is too much, and cut back since it would hurt thier chances with that recruit. 

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Hey, back off! Those $1.98 Cocoa O's I had for breakfast are delicious!