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Prospects no longer restricted to 5 official visits, limited to 1 official visit per school

The NCAA announced Thursday afternoon that its Division I council has created new rules for official and unofficial visits. Here’s what you need to know:

• The main change is that prospects will no longer be restricted to five official visits but will be limited to one official visit per school.
• If there is a coaching change, a second official visit can be taken.
• The rules will take place this August.
• College programs still have a limit of 56 total official visits per year.

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What this change means for prospects

Prospects with extensive offer lists previously had to weigh closely which programs they would officially visit. Oftentimes, prospects would choose to pay their own way on unofficial visits to schools located closer to their homes in order to preserve official visits for more expensive trips.

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With unlimited official visits, prospects now have an opportunity to see more places with no expense for their families. This will likely encourage more visits to be taken, and thus, more drama on the recruiting trail.

Because the schools take on the travel, lodging and meal expenses for official visits, they often tend to be in-depth, multi-day visits with prospects they want badly. Now prospects will likely be more liberal with their visits, meaning big-time programs will likely still have the opportunity to host prospects who aren’t fully sold on the likelihood of them going there. The result could be more surprising recruiting results and a higher conversion rate on national recruitments.

The power shift has already been slowly moving toward the student athletes in college athletics, and this is just another rule change that will allow more opportunities for prospects to make a more thorough and informed college decision.

What they’re saying

“For young people considering where to go to college, visits to campus — both official and unofficial — are an integral part of the decision-making process,” said Lynda Tealer, executive associate athletics director at Florida and chair of the Division I Council. “This was an opportunity to modernize NCAA rules in a way that provides greater and more meaningful opportunities for prospects going through the recruitment process.”

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NCAA approves rule allowing prospects to take an unlimited number of official recruiting visits

Prospects were previously limited to official visits at five schools.

High school athletes will be able to take an unlimited number of official visits as part of their recruiting process starting July 1, according to new rules passed by the NCAA Division I Council on Thursday . Recruits will be limited to one official visit per school, unless there is a coaching change. 

Official visits allow schools to pay for transportation, a two-night stay, meals and "reasonable entertainment" for an athlete and up to two family members. Previously, prospective athletes were limited to five total official visits as part of their recruitment process. 

"For young people considering where to go to college, visits to campus -- both official and unofficial -- are an integral part of the decision-making process," said Lynda Tealer, chair of the Division I Council. "This was an opportunity to modernize NCAA rules in a way that provides greater and more meaningful opportunities for prospects going through the recruitment process."

The decision could provide a significant victory for schools outside of the recruiting hotbeds who often struggle to get athletes on campus. For example, 15 of Oregon's 29 high school recruits came from outside the Pacific Time Zone. With the new rules, it will be easier for Dan Lanning and his staff to bring more players to campus. 

Additionally, non-power programs could more easily treat local prospects to official visits without costing blue-chip recruits one of their visits. However, it also gives an advantage to well-monied programs that can afford to hand out numerous official visits. Georgia, for example, spent 30% more on recruiting than any other program in college football over the past three years. 

The new rule is part of a sweeping transformation to college recruiting instituted by the NCAA in April. The NCAA has shifted the recruiting calendar to allow coaches to contact recruits starting June 15 after a recruit's sophomore year of high school, moved up from Sept. 1 of their junior year. Additionally, coaches will be able to have in-person contact with recruits after Jan. 1 of their junior year, vastly increasing the number of days available, but cutting the amount of total allowable total recruiting days by 37 between the spring and fall contact periods. 

Updating the recruiting calendar has become a major priority for coaches as recruiting becomes essentially a non-stop activity . Staffs in December often deal with bowl prep, high school recruiting and navigating the transfer portal at the same time. Many of these new rules are focused at trying to ease the demands on staffs later in the year by opening the process up earlier in the year. 

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NEW: NCAA D1 Council approves unlimited official visits for high school prospects

A potentially large change in how programs approach recruiting began last week as the NCAA Division I Council voted to allow players to take an unlimited number of official visits. Previously, they had been limited to a total of five.

Under the new rules, players will still be limited to only one official visit per school, barring a coaching change.

Official visits allow for schools to pay for the cost of travel, two nights in a hotel, meals and “reasonable entertainment” for the prospect and up to two family members. It’s important to note that there were already no limits regarding unofficial visits, where the burden of travel, housing and all other expenses fall on the recruit.

This will have beneficial impacts on both sides. For the programs, it allows them to host a larger number of prospects, including ones from across the country who may have difficulties traveling on their own dime. For the players, it also allows them to make a more informed decision without having to cover their own expenses.

Exactly how this will impact teams’ recruiting strategies remains to be seen, but regardless, it is set to be a major departure from how recruiting has operated to this point.

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NCAA approves rule change to remove caps on official visits for recruits

Recruiting in college football will change on July 1.

On Thursday, the NCAA Division I council  approved changes to the limits surrounding official visits. Effective July 1, recruits will be able to take one official visit to as many schools as they’d like. The 5-visit limit has been removed. There will also be an exception for a second visit in the event of a coaching change.

“For young people considering where to go to college, visits to campus — both official and unofficial — are an integral part of the decision-making process,” said Lynda Tealer, chair of the D1 council. “This was an opportunity to modernize NCAA rules in a way that provides greater and more meaningful opportunities for prospects going through the recruitment process.”

Official visits may last no longer than a two-night stay, during which schools will be permitted to cover travel costs, transportation, meals, and reasonable entertainment for up to two family members accompanying a recruit on the visit.

What the change means

This is a significant rule change in terms of its potential impact. Perhaps it could level the field a bit.

Before, recruits had to be strategic with their visits. A Florida-based recruit may have held off on taking an OV to the Gators in order to see schools further away. Maybe that choice hurt Florida in his recruitment. That’ll no longer be the case. Perhaps there’s an instance where a school finishes as the No. 6 team in a list of 5 finalists and misses out on a visit. Now, they’d have the chance to push themselves back into the picture.

Of course, it could have the opposite effect. Programs with large recruiting budgets will be able to handle the increased visit volume. Schools with smaller budgets might struggle to keep up. Resource allocation for athletic departments now gets even more convoluted.

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NCAA Changes Rules on Official Visits for Recruits

The NCAA announced that they are changing some rules when it comes to official visits for prospective recruits.

The Division I council met this week and put in place new rules for official and unofficial visits for recruits starting on July 1. There is now no limit to the number of official visits that a recruit can make to various schools. This means that they can chose to go on as many official visits as they want, but only one per school. The only circumstance where a recruit could make two official visits to the same school is if there is a coaching change after the first official visit.

The council also stated that men’s basketball recruits may go on two official visits, as long as those visits aren’t in the same calendar year.

They also outlined rules for official visits for those recruits. Recruits may bring two family members and the official visits can’t be more than two days. The school also has permission to cover food, transportation, costs for travel and “reasonable entertainment.

This ruling makes it much easier for schools to recruit players and bring them onto campus. Recruits also have an easier time because they don’t have to be picky when it comes to choosing which schools to visit.

It will be interesting to see how Pitt uses this to their advantage in their respective programs and how they each benefit from this change.

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Your school's football recruits might not get those photoshoots under proposed NCAA rule

One of the main ways a college football program markets their recruiting efforts publicly is having photoshoots with their potential recruits on visits to the school. That may have to change, according to new legislation proposed by the FBS Oversight Committee.

According to a Division I Council document, the committee "introduced legislation...to prohibit, during a football prospective student-athletes unofficial visits, institutional involvement in arranging photographs or photographing the prospective student-athlete and those accompanying the prospective student-athlete."

In essence, schools will no longer be allowed to host their own photoshoots for prospective recruits during unofficial visits according to the proposed rule. Should the new rule take effect, it will not affect how coaches and schools decide to conduct official visits. It also would not prohibit parents from taking their own pictures, but it would prevent the school from hiring professional photographers for a school-sponsored photoshoot.

The rule on photoshoots was just introduced at the most recent Division I council meeting. There will be a feedback period and another council meeting before a vote occurs.

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Photoshoots were not the only thing tackled in the Division I Council's most recent meeting.

It also approved a shorter transfer window for student-athletes across all sports, shrinking it from 60 to 45 days for football players in FCS and FBS.

The NCAA will also look into enhancing protections for student-athletes attempting to sign name, image and likeness (NIL) deals and instituting changes on infraction penalties. Those changes include a reexamination on penalties athletes face for betting on sports.

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NCAA allows for unlimited official visits in college basketball

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The NCAA has taken even more restrictions off player movement after it approved a blanket waiver that allows schools to host an unlimited number of official visits in men’s and women’s basketball, according to an NCAA memo obtained by The Athletic on Thursday.

Previously, schools were limited in the number of official visits they could host. Student-athletes, however, have been able to go on an unlimited amount of official visits since July 1 of last year. Recruits are still limited to one official visit per school unless there is a head coaching change after their visit.

Due to concerns over roster depletion, the men’s and women’s basketball oversight committees recommended that schools should also be allowed to host as many recruits on official visits as they feel are necessary to maintain their basketball roster year over year. Given that student-athletes are now allowed an unlimited amount of transfers and can be granted immediate eligibility upon changing schools, some programs have to build their rosters from nearly the ground up in the offseason. That along with NIL opportunities has paved the way for an unprecedented amount of player movement via the transfer portal.

In April, the NCAA Division I Council adopted a rule that allows schools to identify and facilitate deals between student-athletes and third parties. That change came months after NCAA President Charlie Baker proposed a reform aimed at moving NIL activity under the umbrella of schools instead of third-party collectives. While Baker’s vision didn’t quite come to fruition, the NCAA’s latest change to NIL hit on most of the key elements.

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2023–24 NCAA Baseball Recruiting Rules and Calendar

NCAA baseball recruiting rules regulate the way college coaches can recruit athletes throughout the year. It’s up to the coach to follow these recruiting rules, and it’s up to the family to familiarize themselves with the rules so they know what to expect throughout the process. The better families understand the NCAA baseball recruiting rules, the more smoothly they can execute their recruiting game plan. For example, recruits want to avoid planning their campus visits during a dead period, as the coach will not be able to meet with them during that time.

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Why do ncaa baseball recruiting rules exist.

NCAA-member schools established recruiting rules to level the playing field for colleges who might not have the resources of some of the bigger and more popular schools. These rules spell out who is allowed to be involved in the recruiting process, when recruiting may occur and the conditions under which recruiting can be conducted, according to the NCAA website. These rules seek, “as much as possible, to control intrusions into the lives of student-athletes.”

When can college baseball coaches contact recruits?

One of the most frequent questions we get is, “When can college baseball coaches talk to me?” The answer is that it depends on the division level. The NCAA recently implemented new recruiting rules that prohibit any communication between Division 1 coaches and potential recruits before August 1 of their junior year in an effort to slow down the college baseball recruiting process. Phone calls, texts and emails from Division 2 coaches can begin June 15 after the athlete’s sophomore year. There are no restrictions regarding phone calls from coaches at the Division 3, NAIA and NJCAA levels, but typically they wait until an athlete’s junior year. 

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When can I contact a college coach?

Student-athletes are allowed to call or email a college coach at any time, but NCAA baseball recruiting rules restrict when and how a coach can respond.

How early recruiting works in baseball

In an effort to address early recruiting and slow down the process for student-athletes, the NCAA implemented a new recruiting rule in 2023 that prohibits any communication between Division 1 coaches, potential recruits, as well as anyone speaking on behalf of the athlete before August 1 of their junior year.

In previous years, recruits have shared that they received offers as underclassmen. An NCAA study found that 46% of DI prospects reported having their first recruiting contact with a DI coach before their junior year. If the NCAA recruiting rules prohibit a college coach from contacting a recruit before their junior year, how can coaches extend an offer before then?

In these cases, a college coach will most likely have worked with a recruit’s travel or high school coach. Because athletes can contact a college coach any time, the athlete’s current coach will set up a time for the athlete to call the college coach. This practice now violates the NCAA’s new rule, effective for the 2023-24 school year.

When can a Division 1 baseball coach contact me?

Effective starting June 2023, the NCAA prohibits any communication between Division 1 coaches, potential recruits, and anyone speaking on behalf of the athlete before August 1 of their junior year. This new rule was established to combat the rise in early recruiting and give student-athletes time to focus on their development without added pressure from college coaches.

Official visits : Student-athletes can begin taking official visits beginning August 1 of their high school junior year. Previously, official visits were not allowed until the recruit’s senior year.

Unofficial visits : College athletic departments—including coaches—are not permitted to be involved in a student-athlete’s unofficial visits prior to September 1 of their high school junior year. Before the rule change, underclassmen could take advantage of an unofficial visit to possibly get an early verbal scholarship offer. Under the current rules, should a recruit happen to come into contact with a coach on campus during an unofficial visit, no recruiting conversations can take place.

Camps : Recruiting conversations are forbidden between recruits and college coaches during camps prior to September 1 of the athlete’s junior year of high school. Before this new rule, coaches and underclassmen were not prohibited from talking about recruiting. There was nothing to stop coaches from extending a verbal scholarship offer to recruits.

According to the NCAA these rule changes were made to give prospective student-athletes more time to consider their college choice and avoid the pressures of early recruitment. The goal is for students to concentrate on their grades, take their ACTs or SATs, continue to grow as an athlete, research their target schools and maximize their high school experience.

How have the new Division 1 baseball rules changed recruiting?

The rule change hasn’t impacted the recruiting process for baseball players very much. The new rules make it clear the student-athlete must stay proactive in their recruiting journey and do their research up front. We strongly recommend that by August 1 of their high school junior year, recruits create their list of target schools, build their NCSA Recruiting Profile, produce their skills video and begin reaching out to college coaches. This will help recruits get on coaches’ radars, so they can hit the ground running come August 1.

NCAA Division 1 baseball recruiting rules

The NCAA baseball recruiting rules for Division 1 schools are the most regulated and strict of the college division levels. Specific forms of communication from coaches are allowed depending on your year in high school.

August 1 before junior year

• This is when college coaches can begin sending all forms of communications to student-athletes, ranging from emails and texts to direct messages on social media and phone calls.

September 1 of junior year

• Student-athletes and their parents can begin taking official visits. Per NCAA rules, athletes can take unlimited official visits to D1 schools. Only one official visit is allowed per school.
• Athletes can coordinate unofficial visits with a school’s athletic department to meet and have recruiting conversations with the coach, coaching staff, and players while on campus.

July 1 before senior year

• This is when college coaches can begin making off-campus visits to student-athletes at their home or school.

Senior year

• College coaches can conduct off-campus communications with athletes and their parents. Keep in mind this can happen no more than three times.

NCAA Division 2 baseball recruiting rules

NCAA baseball recruiting rules for Division 2 schools are less restrictive than those for Division 1 schools. Coach communication, off-campus contact and official visits can begin June 15 after sophomore year.

• General materials : Athletes can get all types of communications including camp brochures, questionnaires, NCAA materials and non-athletic recruiting publications at any time.
• Printed recruiting materials : Starting June 15 before an athlete’s junior year, coaches can begin mailing out printed recruiting materials like camp brochures, questionnaires, or general school brochures available to all students at any time.
• Telephone calls : Starting June 15 prior to the athlete’s junior year, coaches can begin calling, using Facetime, Skype or any type of video conferencing with athletes.
• Off-campus contact : College coaches can have off-campus communications with athletes and/or their parents starting June 15 prior to the athlete’s junior year.
• Official visits : Athletes may start taking official visits starting June 15 prior to their junior year.

NCAA Division 3 baseball recruiting rules

In comparison to Division 1 and Division 2 schools, Division 3 schools have the most relaxed NCAA baseball recruiting rules.

• Student-athletes can get recruiting materials at any time.
• College coaches are allowed to make unlimited calls to student-athletes.
• College coaches may start off-campus communications after an athlete’s sophomore year.
• Unofficial visits are not limited. Athletes and their parents can make as many as they want.
• After Jan. 1 of junior year: Athletes can begin taking official visits.

NAIA baseball recruiting rules

Unlike the NCAA, the NAIA does not regulate or limit the contact and communication between a coach and a current high school athlete, nor does it regulate campus visits and tryouts.

Junior college baseball recruiting rules

Junior college coaches are free to contact prospective student-athletes at any time provided they have not signed a junior college letter of intent. There is no baseball recruiting calendar.

• No institution shall permit an athlete to be solicited to attend by the promise of a gift or other inducement other than an athletic grant-in-aid.
• An institution may pay for one visit to its campus by direct route, for a stay not to exceed two days and two nights. The paid visit must be limited to the campus and local community where the college is located. A student-athlete must have completed their high school junior year to receive an official recruiting visit by a member college.
• A college representative may purchase meals for a potential athlete while recruiting on campus.

Baseball recruiting official visits

The official visit is a major step in the recruiting process. An invitation to visit a college campus generally means that coaches consider visitors as top recruits. Here are some of the most frequently-asked questions about official visits:

What makes a visit official?

A school visit is considered official if all or part of the trip is paid for by the institution.

How many official visits can a player have?

A recruit can make only one official visit per school and unlimited official visits in total to NCAA baseball Division 1 schools. Visits to Division 2 and Division 3 schools are unlimited.

Do most parents attend official visits?

Yes, parents are invited, and the school can pay for their round-trip transportation, three meals per day and tickets to a home game. We recommend that parents be there for support but let the athlete take the lead in asking questions. Coaches generally will include parents in the proceedings and will have questions for them, particularly about scholarships and finances. 

What do you do on an official visit?

Generally, an official visit will include a campus tour with the opportunity to attend a class, visit on- and off-campus housing, eat in the cafeteria and meet the coach’s staff and team members.

Division 1 baseball recruiting calendar

Contact period : College coaches may have in-person contact with student-athletes and their parents on or off campus. Coaches may also visit their high school or watch them compete. Campus visits by the recruit and their parents are also allowed. Coaches may write and phone during this period:

• August 1 – August 20, 2023
• September 15 – October 8, 2023
• March 1 – July 31, 2024 (except dates listed as dead period).

Dead period : At no time may a college coach have in-person contact on or off campus with student-athletes and/or their parents. The coach may write or telephone during this period:

• November 6 – November 9, 2023
• January 4  – January 7, 2024
• June 1 – June 3, 2024
• June 15 – June 17, 2024
• July 3 – July 5, 2024

Quiet period : A college coach is not allowed to have any in-person contact with a student-athlete or their parents off the college campus. They also may not watch them compete or visit their high school. Coaches may write or telephone during this period and student-athletes and their parents may visit a college campus during this time:

• November 6-9, 2023 
• November 21-26, 2023 
• December 22-27, 2023 
• January 4-7, 2024 

See the full D1 baseball recruiting calendar here.

Division 2 baseball recruiting calendar

Treat all dates that are not part of the dead period as a contact period.

Dead period : At no time may a college coach have in-person contact on or off campus with student-athletes or their parents. The coach may write or telephone during this period.

• November 6 – November 8, 2023.
• This period outlines the 48 hours prior to 7 a.m. on the dates for signing the National Letter of Intent .

Division 3 baseball recruiting calendar

For D3 schools, there are no dead periods. The contact period is effectively year-round.

NAIA and junior college recruiting calendar

The NAIA and junior colleges do not regulate contact and communication for coaches. There is no recruiting calendar for either.

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Media Center 6/23/2021 7:19:00 PM Michelle Brutlag Hosick

DI Council introduces women’s basketball rule changes

Name, image and likeness discussion to continue.

The Division I Council on Wednesday introduced potential new rules that would adjust the women's basketball recruiting calendar. The rule changes would be effective immediately after adoption.

The Council also considered the name, image and likeness landscape and examined different approaches that would allow for student-athletes to engage in NIL activity without jeopardizing their NCAA eligibility. The group will discuss the issue again at its meeting Monday.

Recommended by the Women's Basketball Oversight Committee and supported by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association, the women's basketball recruiting changes are intended to promote a healthy and safe return to recruiting and work-life balance for coaches, while also recognizing the impact of the transfer rule changes on recruiting and acknowledging the flexibility needed to recruit internationally.

"The last year taught us we can do things differently," said Jamie Boggs, athletics director at Grand Canyon and vice chair of the Women's Basketball Oversight Committee. "These changes will allow coaches and student-athletes to make informed decisions about recruiting while also providing flexibility in this new environment."

The calendar adjustments would include:

• Expanding the August shutdown period from five to seven days.
•  Shifting the September contact period to an evaluation period.
• Shifting the dead periods surrounding the National Letter of Intent signing dates (November and April) to an evaluation period.
• Shifting March 1-30 from a contact period to an evaluation period. March 31 would remain the start of the dead period surrounding the Division I Women's Basketball Championship.
• Eliminating the dead period following the championship in April and replacing it with a quiet period.
• Limiting April evaluation days to the third weekend.
• Adding an evaluation weekend in June.
• Shortening the July evaluation periods to two four-day weekends, with a quiet period in between.

Additional proposed changes, including replacing in-home visits with virtual home visits, reducing the number of official visits per prospective college athlete and overall length of official visits and expanding the period of time in which visits can be taken, are aimed at preserving health and safety and work-life balance and providing additional flexibility.

The proposal would allow 10 calendar days in the summer to recruit internationally, with limits on the number of countable coaches who can do so at one time.

Phone calls would be allowed beginning June 1 following the sophomore year of high school, and both staff members and current student-athletes would be allowed to participate in these calls if a countable coach initiated it.

Finally, the model would loosen restrictions around participation in virtual team activities and permanently allow coaches to participate in virtual camps and clinics that do not include prospective student-athletes.

The proposal will be a part of the 2021-22 legislative cycle and could be considered by the Council as early as January 2022.

Additional rules actions

School staff members can scout future opponents who are competing in the same event at the same site as the school's team, and can scout future opponents at NCAA championship events, beginning Aug. 1. The Council adopted the rule Wednesday to help ease the monitoring burden for the upcoming year.

The Council also introduced for consideration other potential new rules, including those aimed at improving the academic performance of wrestling student-athletes. After significant study by a task force that included student-athletes and coaches, the Committee on Academics forwarded the proposed changes to the Council for consideration.

Members also introduced a proposal that would limit women's basketball regular-playing schedule with outside competition to one of the following:

• Twenty-eight contests (games and scrimmages) and one qualifying regular-season multiple-team event that does not exceed three contests, with an exemption for a championship game.
• Twenty-nine contests (games and scrimmages) and one qualifying regular-season multiple-team event that does not exceed two contests.
• Twenty-nine contests (games and scrimmages) during a playing season in which the team does not participate in a qualifying regular-season multiple-team event.

The rule change would, if adopted, provide more flexibility for women's basketball teams in reaching the 31-contest limit and may spur the creation of more opportunities for women's basketball teams to compete.

The Council waived a rule requiring schools to provide a hearing outside of athletics when a student-athlete's athletics scholarship is cancelled or reduced for underclassmen seeking to take advantage of the additional year of eligibility provided by the Council due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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