Ivy League proposal to limit early recruitment

[spiehler]

https://www.insidehighered.com/news...-proposals-curbing-early-recruitment-athletes

"The proposed Division I rule changes, which would potentially be voted on at the NCAA’s annual meeting in January, would prohibit verbal offers from coaches to potential recruits until Sept. 1 of the student’s junior year of high school. The legislation would also prohibit players initiating or receiving phone calls with and from college coaches, and ban any recruiting conversations at camps or clinics until that date."

 

[joecct]

Re: Ivy League proposal to limit early recruitment

Yes to A. No to B (major juniors).

But you can still recruit until the NLI, so a commitment is not worth that much.

 

[QUAlum2004]

Re: Ivy League proposal to limit early recruitment

No on both for me. You need to be able to get this kids recruited prior to them being drafted by major juniors to keep better players going to college.

 

[joecct]

No on both for me. You need to be able to get this kids recruited prior to them being drafted by major juniors to keep better players going to college.

Teams are stockpiling recruits. I haven't recently looked at Heisenberger, but I'm guessing more than a few teams have more recruits than full scholarships.

 

[mookie1995]

Teams are stockpiling recruits. I haven't recently looked at Heisenberger, but I'm guessing more than a few teams have more recruits than full scholarships.

Just like bank accounts

 

[JohnsonsJerseys]

Re: Ivy League proposal to limit early recruitment

Teams are stockpiling recruits. I haven't recently looked at Heisenberger, but I'm guessing more than a few teams have more recruits than full scholarships.

This is likely the case for every team. Not everyone on the roster is attending for free. Many of the scholarships are split between multiple players.

I don't have an issue with a team stockpiling recruits as long as when the teams says they can show up on campus they have a roster spot for them. What I take issue with is a team signing 10 players for a certain class year and then when that year arrives they only have 6 spots available and they tell four of them they'll have to look at another school. If the kid makes a commitment then the school better be able to honor the commitment they offered the kid to get him to sign.

Ryan J

 

[ServinisScores]

Re: Ivy League proposal to limit early recruitment

kind of interesting the Ivies are pushing, in other sports, like women's lacrosse, they are a significant, if not the largest violator of early commitments.

 

[Game0n]

Re: Ivy League proposal to limit early recruitment

kind of interesting the Ivies are pushing, in other sports, like women's lacrosse, they are a significant, if not the largest violator of early commitments.

It doesn't make any sense for Ivy's to make offers before Junior year since they really need to have a better idea if the student has the grades/SAT's to get through admissions. Every Ivy has a minimum Academic Index which is calculated based on an equal weighting of GPA/Math SAT/Verbal SAT... If you don't have at least 3.0/600/600, you aren't getting in - period. And in reality, you need better than the bare minimum (unless you are then next Gretzky)... That is why every year there are handfuls of Ivy decommits who didn't have the grades... Not really a big deal, because the players who decommit can usually land somewhere - just not in the Ivy league. And it's a good source of supply for the non-Ivy's looking to fill some last minute roster spots

Here's how the math works http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/sports/before-athletic-recruiting-in-the-ivy-league-some-math.html?_r=0