{"id":7425,"date":"2014-01-17T10:06:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T16:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsr-inc.com\/blog\/?p=7425"},"modified":"2014-01-17T10:06:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T16:06:31","slug":"new-ncaa-rule-loosens-initial-contact-restriction-for-di-coaches-in-some-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/new-ncaa-rule-loosens-initial-contact-restriction-for-di-coaches-in-some-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"New NCAA rule loosens initial contact restriction for DI coaches in some sports"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NCAA Division I coaches are smiling today knowing that next year juniors will be fair game.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NCAA members could have packed their bags last Wednesday afternoon and the Association’s national\u00a0conclave would have been considered a\u00a0major success after just one day of meetings.\u00a0 By\u00a0agreeing to permit Division I coaches\u00a0in\u00a0designated sports* to begin making initial\u00a0contact with high school juniors on September 1, a full\u00a0ten months sooner than was previously allowed, college recruiting’s gatekeeper has relented from its long-held position of\u00a0shielding prep\u00a0student-athletes from the recruiting fray.\u00a0 But in doing so, the NCAA has come to the realization that it can no longer hide from technology, advanced communications and media criticism.<\/p>\n

Make no mistake, there will be a serious ripple effect from this rule change which will impact hundreds of thousands of young athletes across America and around the globe.\u00a0 Basically, the new contact date means that the recruiting process will be pushed up an entire year, making juniors fair game.\u00a0 The old rule protected juniors to a degree from head-on collisions with DI coaches.\u00a0\u00a0 The NCAA’s prevailing opinion was that\u00a0it wanted to have a hand in preserving the high school experience for student-athletes for as long as possible.\u00a0 However, the almost universal use of social media and cell phone texting eventually painted the NCAA into\u00a0a proverbial corner.\u00a0 For several years, they\u00a0have been looked down upon as antiquated and stubborn beyond reason in their stance.\u00a0 Hardly a day passed by when they weren’t being dragged through the mud on talk radio and other sports outlets for their seemingly indifference to modern times.\u00a0 But by testing the influence of an\u00a0earlier contact date\u00a0via Division II coaches this past year, and finding that no substantial harm resulted, Division I finally laid down their arms and surrendered.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0ripple effect will also be felt in the sophomore\u00a0class.\u00a0 They will now be squarely in coaches’ cross-hairs.\u00a0 Division I coaches will be on them.\u00a0 DII coaches will ramp up their efforts because of the additional competition.<\/p>\n

And for juniors as this New\u00a0Age of Recruiting is ushered in?\u00a0 They will be inundated as has no junior class in history.\u00a0 For those prepared, it will be a joy ride, but it will be a very long joy ride.\u00a0 For the ill-prepared, it could be\u00a0more a curse than\u00a0blessing.\u00a0 Either way, the next calendar year will be at the very least interesting.<\/p>\n

* Volleyball, softball, baseball, field hockey, wrestling, tennis, golf, lacrosse, <\/em>water polo, rowing, women’s ice hockey and soccer.<\/em><\/p>\n

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NCAA members could have packed their bags last Wednesday afternoon and the Association’s national\u00a0conclave would have been considered a\u00a0major success after just one day of meetings.\u00a0 By\u00a0agreeing to permit Division I coaches\u00a0in\u00a0designated sports* to begin making initial\u00a0contact with high school juniors on September 1, a full\u00a0ten months sooner than was previously allowed, college recruiting’s gatekeeper … 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":[1],"tags":[10,56,57,222,79,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7425"}],"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=7425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7428,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7425\/revisions\/7428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}