NCAA Recruiting Crackdown?

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There are several problems with basketball recruiting as it is. Certainly the hiring of high school and AAU coaches for summer clinics is one. But the problems run much deeper than just that, which is the point of the article. It's a messy business and definitely needs to be cleaned up by the NCAA on many levels.
 


rrjackIII said:
Interesting article but the article says you can't hire HS coaches to help with Summer Clinics.

It does not say you cannot hire a HS coach for your full time staff.
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That article doesnt but the one on ESPN does....

Around for decades, the hire-me-get-him deals have grown exponentially as basketball staffs have mushroomed to the point that a 4:1 staff to player ratio is common. Video coordinators have assistants; strength coaches have assistants. Even assistants have assistants.

Under the proposal being considered, "during a two-year period prior or subsequent to the anticipated or actual enrollment of a prospective student-athlete, an institution may not employ and individual associated with the prospective student-athlete in any athletics department noncoaching position."

The key words: noncoaching position.

"I'm no angel and I'm no altar boy," said Seton Hall's Bobby Gonzalez. "But in 10 years as a head coach, I can tell you I've never had to hire a guy to get a kid. Maybe it's because I've been at schools like Manhattan and Seton Hall, where we didn't have the resources even if we wanted to, but I'd like to think that I'd never be that desperate. Now if they put the rule in, it's the same for everybody: You have to work to get a kid. It eliminates another line between the haves and the have-nots."

And it's not just the head coach who would be penalized if he tried to pull off a package deal. "If such a hire is made following the enrollment of a prospective student-athlete after they enroll at the institution within the two year-period," the recommendation reads, "the student-athlete becomes permanently ineligible for competition."

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?columnist=oneil_dana&id=4601355

Personally I believe many of these are long overdue.
 

The regulations would stop the hire me for your staff and player A comes with me garbage.
 

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