{"id":1342,"date":"2010-09-22T18:31:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T00:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2017-04-18T14:20:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T19:20:35","slug":"new-ncaa-rules-and-how-they-could-impact-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/new-ncaa-rules-and-how-they-could-impact-you\/","title":{"rendered":"New NCAA Rules and How They Could Impact You"},"content":{"rendered":"

NSR’s Take?\u00a0 If Passed, Either or Both Will Shift the Recruiting Process<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two significant NCAA<\/a><\/strong> rules are potentially looming and as the organization’s convention gets closer, it’s prudent to that we examine how\u00a0these changes\u00a0could impact\u00a0prospects and recruits.<\/p>\n

Let’s take a look at the first one.\u00a0 It concerns \u00a0incoming freshmen and\u00a0transfers in basketball and football whose grades are “on the bubble.”\u00a0\u00a0 The new proposal, if adopted, would require colleges to\u00a0not only closer scrutinize the\u00a0academic qualifications of all newcomers, but it would\u00a0make\u00a0those with borderline grades and test scores attend summer school prior to being admitted as full-time students.\u00a0\u00a0What those new standards will be is still unknown, but one thing is for certain, if you don’t want to be put on\u00a0this “watch list,” the best way to insure that your summer will be free\u00a0is to get your grades up now.<\/p>\n

We won’t know\u00a0for sure how it will play out and don’t expect to get\u00a0the final word until a vote is taken.\u00a0 That’s expected to happen at the\u00a02011 NCAA Convention<\/a><\/strong> to be held in San Antonio<\/a><\/strong> on January 12-15.\u00a0 Heck, it may not pass, but the sentiment seems to support\u00a0the guess that it will go through pretty darn easily.\u00a0 Committees with current student-athletes as members typically have significant pull with the membership at large and with their support the momentum has swung toward passage.<\/p>\n

What can you do?\u00a0 Check with your guidance counselor to confirm your core course GPA<\/em>.\u00a0 Anything below a 2.3 core could be cause for concern, but that’s just our take on it.\u00a0 As for which minimum\u00a0ACT<\/a><\/strong> or SAT<\/a><\/strong> scores might raise a red flag is hard to tell, but stay tuned to this blog.\u00a0 We’ll give you the full scoop when, and if, the proposal is adopted.<\/p>\n

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The second potential new NCAA<\/strong> rule is the disallowing of verbal commitments.\u00a0 From our side at NSR<\/strong>, it’s appears to be a bit of a knee reaction to all the dust which swirls around all those early, early commitments which are all the rage.\u00a0 When USC’<\/a><\/strong>s head football coach Lane Kiffin<\/strong> (who else, right?) made a scholarship offer to a seventh grader from Delaware last spring, the NCAA<\/strong> and many others, threw their hands up in mock surprise.\u00a0 Kiffin’s reputation is such that he can’t scratch his toe without causing a reaction, but he may have tested the limits of good judgement, once again, in this particular scenario.<\/p>\n

In truth, the offer-very-early trend has been gaining momentum for a few years.\u00a0 It’s been going on at a number of DI schools and as could be expected lower DI’s and DII’s are following suit by securing earlier and earlier verbal thumbs up from prospects.\u00a0 It’s said that not many coaches are in favor of the practice for\u00a0a lot of good reasons, but like a bundle of other bad habits which have recently raised their ugly heads, greed regretfully appears rises to the top before good sense has a chance to take over.\u00a0 College coaches are not immune.<\/p>\n

Representatives of NCAA<\/strong> member institutions are supposed to have a chance to vote on the proposal at the January NCAA Convention in San Antonio, but politics could get in the way, that is if enough big schools with a lot of pull think they can’t live without giving out offers to pubescent kids whose abilities are deemed extraordinary.\u00a0 However, there has been so much bad news of late\u00a0regarding\u00a0athletes, agents and such that\u00a0this may pass\u00a0if for nothing else than good PR.<\/p>\n

At NSR<\/strong>, we think that offering scholarships to youngsters who haven’t passed their first high school core course is nothing short of the ridiculous, but that’s just us.\u00a0 After all, if that’s the case, we may as well start enrolling sixth graders as NSR<\/strong> prospect-clients, and we really don’t want to do that.\u00a0 Ninth grade is plenty early enough as it is.<\/div>\n
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When it comes to you, the current prospect, and assuming for a moment that the rule is enacted, it would mean that if you are really, really sure you want to accept an offer, you’d better do it before February 1st of 2011.\u00a0 In actuality,\u00a0it probably won’t go into effect until sometime later, but the NCAA<\/strong> has been known to put immediate start dates on new rules which they feel are especially egregious, and this may be one of those situations.\u00a0 The good news is that when passed, prospects will be able to spend more time under less pressure considering which school is the best fit for them athletically, academically, geographically and socially.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

So, what else can you do?\u00a0 It’s simple, send an email or written note (remember how to do that?) to the NCAA<\/strong>, or to the athletic director at the college of your choice, expressing your opinion one way or the other.\u00a0 The feedback you give them could sway the vote.<\/p>\n

For now, we’ll watch with interest as the 2011 NCAA National Convention agenda is publicized over the next few months along with the array of chatter accompanying it from Web sites, bloggers, oh, and the real sports journalists.\u00a0 We’ll weigh in, too.\u00a0 And, we’ll keep you informed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NSR’s Take?\u00a0 If Passed, Either or Both Will Shift the Recruiting Process Two significant NCAA rules are potentially looming and as the organization’s convention gets closer, it’s prudent to that we examine how\u00a0these changes\u00a0could impact\u00a0prospects and recruits. Let’s take a look at the first one.\u00a0 It concerns \u00a0incoming freshmen and\u00a0transfers in basketball and football whose … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14125,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/14125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}