Post by The Cats on Apr 25, 2023 10:57:56 GMT -5
The NCAA board of directors is prepared to this week approve a significant transformation of college baseball’s recruiting calendar, designed to slow down the recruiting process for high school players.
The new rules, which have already passed the Division I council and just need to clear the final step to be formally adopted, prohibit any communication between coaches and potential recruits (or anyone speaking on their behalf) until Aug. 1 before the player’s junior year of high school. Currently, coaches are prohibited from initiating contact with players before Sept. 1 of their junior year, but players are allowed to contact coaches. A similar rule has been enacted in sports such as lacrosse and softball in recent years.
Within the previous system, players routinely were offered scholarships and committed to schools as high school underclassmen—or even as middle schoolers. The new rules would eliminate that practice.
The recruitment of younger and younger players has drawn scrutiny from inside and outside college baseball. Few coaches ever liked the practice but felt like it was necessary to keep up with the competition.
The new rules are meant to ease the pressure on high school underclassmen, who won’t impact college programs for at least three years and are still early in their maturation as people.
www.baseballamerica.com/stories/new-ncaa-rules-designed-to-slow-college-baseballs-recruiting-process/
The new rules, which have already passed the Division I council and just need to clear the final step to be formally adopted, prohibit any communication between coaches and potential recruits (or anyone speaking on their behalf) until Aug. 1 before the player’s junior year of high school. Currently, coaches are prohibited from initiating contact with players before Sept. 1 of their junior year, but players are allowed to contact coaches. A similar rule has been enacted in sports such as lacrosse and softball in recent years.
Within the previous system, players routinely were offered scholarships and committed to schools as high school underclassmen—or even as middle schoolers. The new rules would eliminate that practice.
The recruitment of younger and younger players has drawn scrutiny from inside and outside college baseball. Few coaches ever liked the practice but felt like it was necessary to keep up with the competition.
The new rules are meant to ease the pressure on high school underclassmen, who won’t impact college programs for at least three years and are still early in their maturation as people.
www.baseballamerica.com/stories/new-ncaa-rules-designed-to-slow-college-baseballs-recruiting-process/