NCAA Considers Ban on Early Scholarship Offers

[Jim]

Re: NCAA Considers Ban on Early Scholarship Offers

What is being considered:
- No scholarship granted before July 1 of a prospective student's junior year of high school
- Need a transcript dicumneting at least 5 semesters or 7 quarters of academic work before being able to offer a scholarship

How do you think this will impact NCAA hockey?

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

I don't know that this as all that restrictive. I mean, you are waitng until July 1 of a student's Junior year. And you want to see a transcript to be certain that he's at least making progress...I mean, when you consider we're talking about 15-16 year olds, and asking them to commit to something 2 years away...heck, most kids that age can't commit to doing something in 2 hours...beyond that, I think this is aimed at some of th emore sleazy recuiting sports, not really hockey...

[jnacc]

Re: NCAA Considers Ban on Early Scholarship Offers

T.H.N. take on the matter

Link http://www.thehockeynews.com/article...an-League.html

Doesn't appear to be a consensus among the coaching fraternity on the matter.