NCAA Contact Rules for Recruiting

I wanted to share this topic with you guys because my family dealt with the recruiting process when my brother was in high school. For years now the NCAA has had several policies and rules in place for coaches and universities when it has come to recruiting. In recent years the NCAA has had some very strict rules on texting and phone calls to recruits. There are differences in the rules each division of the NCAA. For Division 1 these rules seem to change every year.

For phone calls, a college coach can make one call per week starting July 1 after your junior year in high school. For phone calls to basketball and football recruits the rules get even more specific but lucky my brother was being recruited for baseball.

Texting, once it became the new trend it quickly became out of hand for coaches and recruits. In 2007, NCAA banded all texting from coaches to recruits. A recruit could send text to a coach but could not reposed to the recruits text. 

What is interesting is that this year there is legislation that several universities are proposing a new legislation that would remove a lot of the texting and phone rules. The schools proposing the new legislation have the bigger athletic budget and the schools against the new proposals have the smaller athletic budgets. The schools against the new legislation feel they will be at a clear disadvantage in the recruiting process.

John Currie, the AD for Kansas State made a good point stating, "I have 139 staff members, which I believe is the smallest full-time staff in the Big 12, but that does not affect our ability to be successful. If we lose out on somebody because our media guide was only 200 pages and somebody else’s was 400 pages, then so be it. I don’t think every school is going to add 25 new quality control coaches and recruiting coaches, because adding 25 new personalities to your building is not necessarily going to make you better. A text message ban has unintended negative consequences and causes more waste of resources than unlimited texting. If a kid does not want to return a phone call or text, he won't."