NCAA eyes ban to certain early offers

[thebigabd]

I would support this rule 100%...

NCAA eyes ban to certain early offers

The NCAA is looking at whether to ban scholarship offers to recruits before July 1 in the summer between their junior and senior years in high school.

The rule would apply to all sports if passed later this year or next. Some coaches are hopeful it could slow an arms-race mentality that has led to earlier and earlier commitments by unproven prospects.

Two years ago, the National Association of Basketball Coaches said it opposed accepting commitments from students who had not yet completed their sophomore seasons in high school. Jim Haney, the group's executive director, says he understands the reasoning behind the new proposal.

The proposal would also require coaches to receive a high school transcript documenting at least five semesters or seven quarters of academic work for a recruit before offering a scholarship.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5372984

 

[seniorsooner]

This is stupid and would be impossible to enforce. What constitutes an "offer"? Until a letter of intent is signed a "commitment" is nothing more than verbal, and in reality means nothing. How do you legislate something that is entirely verbal? What if the coaches/recruits just change the language they use from "offer" and "commitment" to something else? What if they just don't announce it at all? What if the player says there was an offer, but the coach doesn't? How do you prove the law was violated?

 

[playmakr]

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY too late.

I understand what those asshats at the NCAA are trying to do, but July 1st before your senior year is way too late. Even when the NCAA is trying to do something to fix a problem, they trip over their own ineptitude.

 

[thebigabd]

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY too late.

I understand what those asshats at the NCAA are trying to do, but July 1st before your senior year is way too late. Even when the NCAA is trying to do something to fix a problem, they trip over their own ineptitude.

Why is that too late?

 

[playmakr]

Why is that too late?

Why would football players not want to have the opportunity before their senior year's kick into high gear to commit to a school and be done with it? Seems rhetorical.

Why would we want athlete's not to know which schools (and specifically which conferences) they are going to attend so they can enroll in classes their senior years to meet the academic requirements and standards of those schools? Seems rhetorical. Similarly, if a student has a 1.8 GPA and they just got a scholarship offer from a Division 1 school where they will need a 2.0 GPA, it seems logical they would start working harder to achieve it, maybe becoming the first person in their family to even attend college. If we hold the offer's July 1st of that year, it could be too late. Not everyone has Momma from the Waterboy to tudor them in their 8 million dollar home.

Simply moving it to June 1st would substantially improve the idea. It's too late.

 

[BanjoCharley]

...or even Edwardian them.

 

[sys]

if they're going to do it, they should at least make the deadline after the july eval period. stupid to make the deadline right before the eval - essentially forcing schools to extend offers (or risk falling behind baylor/marquette style recruiting schools) days before they get a chance to see the recruits in person.

for that matter, killing off the may eval period was retarded.