New NCAA Recruiting Rules

Allowing schools to offer official visits to juniors will give an advantage to schools that have multiple countable coaches in a specific event area. I feel the schools that have three or more distance coaches who are able to recruit will have a recruiting advantage versus schools with one distance coach. With these new rules you now have to call and bring juniors in on visits and remember they still only have five allowable visits. As a result the work load goes up for the staff, AND the cost goes up as now you’re bringing more recruits in on visits. The schools with a healthy budget and multiple distance coaches have an advantage. I.E Syracuse, NC State come to mind.

Yet you are not allowed to make an offer until start of senior year. So those juniors visits will go great.....coaches and parents staring at each other at the end of the visit with nothing to say.

You know, lacrosse and soccer and volleyball are all trying TO GET AWAY FROM EARLY RECRUITING. And track is trying to go earlier.......why?

You tell me how you are going to evaluate a sophomore boy's track time and project what he will be as a college freshman, or even worse, a sophomore girl.

And the sucker families will all fall for it. They will take the visit to "Stud U" and "verbally commit," only to find out that the school/coach mysteriously finds a way to drop them once they tear their ACL, or go through puberty and get slow.

OR, when "small school U" does a GREAT job identifying an under the radar future stud and gets a commitment, what do you think will happen when they run great as seniors and "stud U" starts calling. You think they are going to stick to their commitment?

WHO WINS in this?

Why we want to make MORE work for ourselves, and make the job more difficult I have no idea.

The other piece of this equation is no "unofficial visits" until Junior year, more restrictions on contact and communication. Now a kid who visits campus prior to their junior year can not even speak to the staff.

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or go through puberty and get slow.

Dumbest comment of the year goes too........

I am not sure how much sense it make to have an official visit the junior year when an offer cannot be made until the senior year. I don't know why offers should be made before the senior year so am not advocating that either. One school wanted to be the last one my daughter visited to have what they thought would be an advantage in recruiting her. I can't see this coach ever extending an official visit during the junior year. My daughter had some fast xc times and indoor and outdoor track times her junior year but that is not common for all. We know coaches care more about track times for comparison and determining offers. Many juniors may not achieve times of interest enough for an official visit until late in the outdoor track season their junior years. Some may not even have an indoor season. My daughter spend her junior year communicating with many coaches and used the time to narrow down her list of schools she wanted to visit officially. We unofficially visited schools her junior year that were in state or on our way as we traveled to some national meets.