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Student-athlete committee proposes major changes to recruiting and transfers

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 Michael Carvell‏ @Michael_Carvell 9s9 seconds ago

Student-athlete committee proposes major changes to NCAA recruiting and transfer rules
https://www.seccountry.com/sec/student-athlete-committee-proposes-major-changes-ncaa-recruiting-transfer-rules

QuoteCommittee proposed to completely do away with the rule that requires student-athletes to receive permission from their programs in order to transfer. It also proposed that there should be no penalties for any graduate transfers who wish to play in a new conference.

"With transfers, one of the big things we are looking at is getting transparency," former Miami (Ohio) field hockey player and SAAC co-chair Kelsi White said. "The student-athlete is up-front; they are telling their coach, but also having the leeway a normal student would have to go wherever they need regarding academics and/or sports. We want to make sure we are not limiting student-athletes from pursuing what they need to pursue."

The second half of the committee's proposal involves recruiting and it timeline, mostly aimed at moving it back in order to give players more time to develop and receive attention and then more time to make a commitment an ultimately sign. Here is an outline of this part of the proposal, per Barnett.

    No recruiting contact at all before ninth grade.
    Recruits can contact coaches before Jan. 1 of 10th grade, but coaches must wait until the Jan. 1 date, when unlimited text messages and emails (lol) will be allowed — but phone calls and verbal commitments would not.
    Phone calls would begin in 11th grade, but coaches could not accept verbal commitments until Jan. 1 of a prospect's 11th grade year.
    Signing period should begin in December of a recruit's senior year (November for other sports) and remain open until August.


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I could live with that.

Grad transfers are somewhat limited already in that they have to not only learn the new schools schemes and verbiage they also have to get at least some chemistry with the new team so considering this and that they would still have to earn a starting spot I doubt that the floodgates would open very far.

As to the second, limiting contact for juniors and below seems to be a good thing in helping their teachers and coaches keep them focused on academics instead of walking around with their heads like a Macy's balloon. And a December to August signing period would greatly help in keeping a school from getting skunked by having that one kid flipping to another school and then not having a positional need met.

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