No More Early Scholarship Offers?

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It is being reported that July 1 before a recruit's SENIOR year might be the earliest that schools can officially offer a kid... depending on what the NCAA decides. Would make for some very interesting summers.

Wouldnt be too much of a change, but it might stop the 15 year-old kids from verballing to schools, which is a good thing in my mind.

sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5372984

[Pssst13]

I don't think it makes a difference. Kid change his mind anytime before the LOI is sign.

[Aztec Since 88]

The second part of this potential new NCAA rule is that the school will have to check transcripts of student before offering to ensure they are on track for graduation.

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Jul 12, 2010 10:40:02 GMT -8 Aztec Since 88 said:

The second part of this potential new NCAA rule is that the school will have to check transcripts of student before offering to ensure they are on track for graduation.

I find it funny that this has to be a rule. You would think that schools are looking into this stuff as it is. We see time and time again where schools back off of kids because they are academic risks. Not much change here either. Also, if a kid is a program changer type of player, schools will continue to offer regardless and hope they can "make it work."

[Fred Noonan]

The "early offer" has come onto the scene in the last decade and has slowly taken over as the modus operandi for recruiting. You didn't used to see a lot of high school juniors committed, say 10 years ago.

As the emphasis on early signing has moved into the lower levels we have seen schools like USC offering a 13 year old kid quarterback, and the kid committing--orally.

I was wondering if the question of limits in the face of this would come up or not. Big bucks schools like USC have the ability to farm the sophmore and freshman classes, whereas we struggle to deal with juniors and seniors.

Interesting, wonder if there will be a limit?

The Fred Noonan School of Navigation.

[monty]

They should be able to be contacted in the summer and maybe a couple week period in the opposite season of their sport starting going into their junior year; but then again, I think campaigning should be limited to 30 days before an election.

[Fred Noonan]

Jul 12, 2010 12:33:27 GMT -8 monty said:

They should be able to be contacted in the summer and maybe a couple week period in the opposite season of their sport starting going into their junior year; but then again, I think campaigning should be limited to 30 days before an election.

Interesting parallel if you look at it in terms of money. That's what we are talking about, the more money you have the better shot you get. If you are in the U$$C realm of bucks you can recruit till the cows come home (time wise), but if you're an SDSU recruiter you'd probably be stretched to recruit the junior class.

The Fred Noonan School of Navigation.

[AztecBill]

Jul 12, 2010 14:11:04 GMT -8 Fred Noonan said:

Jul 12, 2010 12:33:27 GMT -8 monty said:

They should be able to be contacted in the summer and maybe a couple week period in the opposite season of their sport starting going into their junior year; but then again, I think campaigning should be limited to 30 days before an election.

Interesting parallel if you look at it in terms of money. That's what we are talking about, the more money you have the better shot you get. If you are in the U$$C realm of bucks you can recruit till the cows come home (time wise), but if you're an SDSU recruiter you'd probably be stretched to recruit the junior class.

The Fred Noonan School of Navigation.

I see the limit being better for the better schools. They are given free reign to wait longer without having some fly by night coach at a football wannabe school swooping in and offering a scholarship and preempting a potential find. It eliminates mistakes that occur due to early verbals of athletes that regress and gives them a leg up on late bloomers that the lesser schools live on.