The new rules are light years better than the prior...sure it's not perfect, but putting the Sept 1 junior year rule in effect is very good for kids and coaches...jersey shore lax wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:39 pmI totally agree with you but I do not hear better solutions. I would think a staged calendar might be a little better, like let 10th graders communicate directly with coaches via e-mail only and then maybe allow on campus visits in the summer before 11th grade so both coaches and players can get to know each other a little before verbal commitments. Unless I am mistaken the way it is now a kid can verbally commit on Sept. 1st of his junior year where technically he has had no contact with the coaches or visited the school (unless on his own without a coach led tour and meeting) and even his HS or Club coach should not have had contact as intermediaries.Kismet wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 12:27 pm When they lazily adopted the Women's proposal to curb early recruiting they forgot that, like it did with the women beforehand it only made the club owners kings/queens of recruiting and left everyone else out in the cold.
You do get what you wish for in this case.
Prior to the rule, the "held back" kid that was a year older and was shaving a full beard in 8th or 9th grade, was just physically dominating other kids and hence caught all the attention and coaches needed to act, in most cases earlier than they wanted just to secure a kid...well before they could really see how he developed in the next year or two...in most cases (not all) this kid was thecearly bloomer and may have tapped out physically...I've seen it man many times...
The new rule allows for the late bloomer to get more time and more looks and late bloomers (kids that grow/mature in 10th/11th/12th grade tend to have more upside...they were small and competing in 8/9th grade..
But once they catch up physically...they far exceed the early bloomer that was beating up kids on field when they were bigger than everyone...this allows coaches an entirely new view on kids that were late to the game...and they don't have to commit to kids in 9th/10th grade...it's better for all.
Is it perfect...nope. I've lived through recruitments in both situations...the new rules are much better
But I digress...
The PG Prep year is a whole different bag to unpack...I'll try and stay away from that