NCAA Suspends Rule Change for Football Recruiting
NCAA board of directors has decided to suspend the recent changes to football recruiting (rule changes related to unlimited text messages, printed materials, and unlimited contact.) (LINK)
The details are highlighted below:
At its meeting in Indianapolis on Thursday, the board adopted the March recommendations of the Rules Working Group after several of the proposals, designed to create a more meaningful and enforceable NCAA rule book, were met with widespread criticism by the college and high school coaching communities.
In March, Proposal 13-3 received more than 75 override requests from NCAA membership, mandating a review by the board.
Also suspended:
• The remainder of Proposal 13-3, which would have allowed for unlimited contact initiated by college coaches to recruits.
• Proposal 11-2, which called for the elimination of the requirement that only a head coach or assistant coach could perform the functions of a recruiting coordinator.
• Proposal 13-5-A, which would have removed restrictions on printed materials mailed to prospects.
The decisions Thursday do not affect basketball.
Personally, I think this is great - for the recruits and their family, and recruiting in general. It would have been insane for both coaching staffs, recruits, high school coaches, and the NCAA to monitor/enforce.
fergodsakes, 75 schools opposed to rule change.
which, I was hopeful would get more discussion as well:
Proposal 13-2, tabled in January at the NCAA convention, was also suspended. It called for the establishment of a uniform start date for recruiting contact of July 1 in the year before a prospect's junior season.
Also Thursday, the board indefinitely suspended plans to raise academic requirements in 2016 for initial eligibility at the Division I level. If enacted, the changes would have forced many first-year student-athletes to sit out of competition as "academic redshirts."
I mean, if anyone can be considered the 'head recruiter' -- the potential for abuse is endless!
"and the NCAA to monitor/enforce."
I'm thinking the whole point of this was so the NCAA could basically give up trying to enforce their rules while still making boatloads of money off their big cheating moneymakers. There wasn't really anything to enforce with the proposed rule changes other than illegal benefits was there? Oh yeah, and practice time.
There are enough small schools with override requests on retainer to effectively stymie any reform. It is an exploding parliament.
Hugo Weaving certainly doesn't.
Here is the NCAA's press release, which has a little more information (HERE).
One interesting item in here is that the Board of Directors actually declined to change its position on a proposal which would prohibit the live scouting of opponents, even though it also received more than the needed number of override requests. This one will actually go to a full vote.
As for the recruiting legislation, it seems that the direction they want to go with this is to develop a comprehensive model for recruiting practices rather than piecework legislation now, or at least that's the sense I get from the release.