Early Signing Period Confirmed

[notredomer23]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">DI Council allows early football signing period and coaches to recruit at camps and clinics, but restricts when and where they can occur. <a href="https://t.co/tmL8aZcciB">pic.twitter.com/tmL8aZcciB</a></p>— NCAA (@NCAA) <a href="https://twitter.com/NCAA/status/852890428772888576">April 14, 2017</a></blockquote>
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[woolybug25]

 

[notredomer23]

This is great until it's bad lol. People will surely find new things to complain about with it. But a good first step.

 

[NDdomer2]

approve the 10th coach?

 

[Henges24]

Great. Now we can start freaking out when a kid doesn't want to sign early.

 

[woolybug25]

When does it start? Can we lock up Jurc? Stepp?

 

[BobbyMac]

I like the Junior Official Visits starting next year. The more time you get Mom on campus with junior the better chance you have against OSU, Bama, SC. Helps you get the far away kids on campus multiple times.

The new legislation accomplishes several things:

1. It changes the recruiting calendar to allow for an early signing period in December (effective Aug. 1). Only the Collegiate Commissioners Association can create new National Letter of Intent signing periods.

2. It adds a period for official visits that begins April 1 of the junior year and ends the Sunday before the last Wednesday in June of that year. Official visits can’t occur in conjunction with a prospect’s participation in a school’s camp or clinic (effective Aug. 1).

3. It prevents Football Bowl Subdivision schools from hiring people close to a prospective student-athlete for a two-year period before and after the student’s anticipated and actual enrollment at the school. This provision was adopted in men’s basketball in 2010 (effective immediately, though schools may honor contracts signed before Jan. 18, 2017).

4. Football Bowl Subdivision schools are limited to signing 25 prospective and current student-athletes to a first-time financial aid agreement or a National Letter of Intent. Exceptions exclude current student-athletes who have been enrolled full-time at the school for at least two years and prospective or current student-athletes who suffer an incapacitating injury (effective for recruits who sign after Aug. 1, 2017).

5. It limits the time for Football Bowl Subdivision coaches to participate in camps and clinics to 10 days in June and July and requires that the camps take place on a school’s campus or in facilities regularly used by the school for practice or competition. Staff members with football-specific responsibilities are subject to the same restrictions. The Football Championship Subdivision can conduct and participate in camps during the months of June and July (effective immediately, though schools may honor contracts signed before Jan. 18, 2017).

6. It allows coaches employed at a camp or clinic to have recruiting conversations with prospects participating in camps and clinics and requires educational sessions at all camps and clinics detailing initial eligibility standards, gambling rules, agent rules and drug regulations (effective immediately).

7. It allows Football Bowl Subdivision schools to hire a 10th assistant coach (effective Jan. 9, 2018).

 

[BobbyMac]

When does it start? Can we lock up Jurc? Stepp?

Yes. The class of '18 commits (and anyone else for that matter) can sign this December.

 

[dwshade]

Well I hope it's the first week of December rather than late December or else it doesn't make much of a difference.

 

[BobbyMac]

Well I hope it's the first week of December rather than late December or else it doesn't make much of a difference.

As I understand it... it's the same day as Juco Signing Day which is a Wednesday closest to the 15th.

 

[koonja]

Junior officials will be more advantageous for ND than arguably any other school in the country. I'm looking forward to that day.

 

[BobbyMac]

They also killed two-a-days. Wow.

 

[BobbyMac]

Also, not sure if anyone noticed, (I didn't) the 10th assistant doesn't go into effect until Jan 2018 which means Tom Rees is a GA this year and can't leave campus. Thankfully his QB this cycle is wrapped up and he doesn't have to go couch hopping until next season.

 

[condoms SUCk]

They also killed two-a-days. Wow.

do most schools still do two-a-day?

 

[Blaise]

I'm not a fan of early signing.. I understand why people want it however if we target key guys and whiff, we won't be able to poach or 2nd or third choice from smaller schools.. they will already be signed.

 

[condoms SUCk]

Junior officials will be more advantageous for ND than arguably any other school in the country. I'm looking forward to that day.

Agreed

 

[NDdomer2]

So that read that they will allow early signing but the CCA would have to actually agree to it, right?

 

[Legacy]

The new legislation accomplishes several things:

1. It changes the recruiting calendar to allow for an early signing period in December (effective Aug. 1). Only the Collegiate Commissioners Association can create new National Letter of Intent signing periods.

2. It adds a period for official visits that begins April 1 of the junior year and ends the Sunday before the last Wednesday in June of that year. Official visits can’t occur in conjunction with a prospect’s participation in a school’s camp or clinic (effective Aug. 1).

3. It prevents Football Bowl Subdivision schools from hiring people close to a prospective student-athlete for a two-year period before and after the student’s anticipated and actual enrollment at the school. This provision was adopted in men’s basketball in 2010 (effective immediately, though schools may honor contracts signed before Jan. 18, 2017).

4. Football Bowl Subdivision schools are limited to signing 25 prospective and current student-athletes to a first-time financial aid agreement or a National Letter of Intent. Exceptions exclude current student-athletes who have been enrolled full-time at the school for at least two years and prospective or current student-athletes who suffer an incapacitating injury (effective for recruits who sign after Aug. 1, 2017).

5. It limits the time for Football Bowl Subdivision coaches to participate in camps and clinics to 10 days in June and July and requires that the camps take place on a school’s campus or in facilities regularly used by the school for practice or competition. Staff members with football-specific responsibilities are subject to the same restrictions. The Football Championship Subdivision can conduct and participate in camps during the months of June and July (effective immediately, though schools may honor contracts signed before Jan. 18, 2017).

6. It allows coaches employed at a camp or clinic to have recruiting conversations with prospects participating in camps and clinics and requires educational sessions at all camps and clinics detailing initial eligibility standards, gambling rules, agent rules and drug regulations (effective immediately).

7. It allows Football Bowl Subdivision schools to hire a 10th assistant coach (effective Jan. 9, 2018).

Whose do these target?

 

[IrishSanDiego]

Also a pretty interesting scenario for Stanford recruits who are on the bubble of acceptance. The early signing date may help us keep someone like an Adebo from last cycle if they aren't admitted early enough.

 

[dwshade]

I'm not a fan of early signing.. I understand why people want it however if we target key guys and whiff, we won't be able to poach or 2nd or third choice from smaller schools.. they will already be signed.

Yeah but from the kids perspective if he's 100% sure of where he wants to go he should be able to sign. Stops all the recruiting calls.

 

[irishog77]

4. Football Bowl Subdivision schools are limited to signing 25 prospective and current student-athletes to a first-time financial aid agreement or a National Letter of Intent. Exceptions exclude current student-athletes who have been enrolled full-time at the school for at least two years and prospective or current student-athletes who suffer an incapacitating injury (effective for recruits who sign after Aug. 1, 2017).

Schools will be limited to a signing class of 25 then? Am I reading this correctly?

 

[Legacy]

Schools will be limited to a signing class of 25 then? Am I reading this correctly?

Doing away with grayshirts, blueshirts and oversigning.

6. Greyshirts / Blueshirts are done after you hit 25 scholarships - the limitation of annual scholarships to 25. This is a move to do away with oversigning and to reduce the practice of grayshirting, a tactic by which schools delay the enrollment of a prospect until the following January so his signing would technically count as part of the next class. The legislation limits to 25 the number of prospects whose aid is initially offered in the fall term of an academic year. Before, rules limited to 25 the number of prospects allowed to sign from Dec. 1 through May 31. This portion of the changes will affect newcomers in the 2018 signing class.

Also, FCS schools are exempt from this 25 scholarship limitation - but it hasn't been an issue for them.

There will be decisions to make for some schools in situations like a graduating class of fourteen and ten recruits want to sign early. That brings some transparency to some programs either for current scholarship players or for recruits who are denied the early signing.

 

[Irishnuke]

According to this the early signing period isn't official yet and will be voted on in June. Which one is accurate?

NCAA Division I Council passes proposal overhauling college football recruiting rules

 

[NDdomer2]

So that read that they will allow early signing but the CCA would have to actually agree to it, right?

According to this the early signing period isn't official yet and will be voted on in June. Which one is accurate?

NCAA Division I Council passes proposal overhauling college football recruiting rules

This is what I was wondering