NCAA eyes ban to certain early offers
I know Mack recruits early. Does this affect us?
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I think July 1st is a little late for this
And if it were July 1st, that would most definitely affect Mack’s recruiting strategy that aims to garner most commitments at the first junior day, which takes place in mid-February.
I think May 1st would be the absolute latest I’d want to see it set, because that would still allow kids to commit while they’re in school, and a lot of guys like to announce at their schools.
I think the earliest should probably be February 1st, which means the junior season is over, guys have gotten through the holidays, and schools around the country are ramping up for their junior days.
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by burntorangehorn on Jul 12, 2010 12:52 PM CDT reply actions
Absolutely would affect us.
By that rule, if I read it right, offers could not have gone out to the class of 2011 until two weeks ago . . . by that time, we had 22 commitments. More than 15 of those were made and accepted before April 1.
Wasn’t this brought up like a month or two ago and there was a line that said something like “These changes would affect all sports except football”?
by Displaced Longhorn on Jul 12, 2010 1:48 PM CDT reply actions
this is potentially a big issue for Texas....
this fanshot should be bumped because of its potential signicance.
Don't most schools offer before Texas?
We wait until our junior days before offering..while many schools send out offers much earlier than us.
"Football's so important in Texas. On the West Coast, it's a social. On the East Coast, it's a culture. Here, it's a religion."
-- Major Applewhite
Yep, some offer before high school, in fact.
However, I think most BCS-level programs makes at least some offers to guys during their junior seasons of high school.
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by burntorangehorn on Jul 12, 2010 4:23 PM CDT up reply actions
Why in the end this rule won't matter
Whether it passes and becomes official or not:
http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/6271764/23157425?tag=globalNav.collegebasketball;headlines
WTF is up with the NCAA?
It seems like they are targeting Texas. First the whole HCIW rule and now this.
As we know, the NCAA is a group of member
schools, not a group of unelected officials in a (formerly smoke-filled) room. When enough of the members see one, or a few, schools that are out front, they try to find a way to rein them in, to level the playing field.
It wasn’t Texas or Ohio State or Alabama that set the NCAA scholarship at 85. Those schools didn’t institute the 25-signees-a-year mandate; once, you could sign 45 a year, and before that there was no limit. The HCIW and the early commitment option are seen as “advantages” not available to the rank and file. So . . .
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