📡 DI Council allows early football signing period, eliminates two-a-days (plus more.)

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[TUSKtimes]

I like the December signing period. Get as much hay in the barn as possible and then go concentrate on the "prima donnas" who as we surely know, are very needy people. Still got to get the conference commissioners to sign off.

There is a lot though on the NCAA agenda and one of the more obscure is #4


4. Signing limit exemption -- Under this proposal, if a signee becomes injured or ill to the point that he or she must give up football, that signee would not count toward that year's recruiting class signing limit of 25. In the past, schools were not able to replace a signee who was deemed unable to continue playing football prior to participating in organized team activities.



Anything that gives a little push to the total 25 is good for college football.

 

[TerryP]

The new legislation accomplishes several things:

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

 

[TerryP]

Two-A-Day ruling:

Division I football players will no longer have multiple contact practices a day in the preseason, the Division I Council decided at its April 13-14 meeting in Indianapolis.

The Council’s Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision members adopted immediate legislation supporting a plan endorsed by the NCAA Sport Science Instituteand leading scientific and sports medicine organizations in the Year-Round Football Practice Contact Recommendations released in January.

“The Council’s action reinforces our commitment to the health and safety of our student-athletes,” said Council chair Jim Phillips, athletics director at Northwestern. “We continue to be guided by the recommendations from medical professionals, coaches and administrators and the strong support for discontinuing two contact practices in the same day.”

The action comes just a few months after the Division I Committee for Legislative Relief issued a blanket waiver to allow the football preseason to start up to a week earlier. That decision allowed schools to decide how best to manage their practice schedule while retaining 29 preseason practices.

A single day may include a single, three-hour, on-field practice session and a walk-through. During walk-throughs, protective equipment such as helmets and pads can’t be worn, and contact is prohibited. Walk-throughs also can’t include conditioning activities and, in the Football Championship Subdivision, are limited to two hours in length. Three continuous hours of recovery are required between on-field practice and a walk-through. Activities such as meetings, film review, medical treatment and meals are allowed during recovery time.

The Division I Football Oversight Committee supported the recommendations, as did the NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports. Research says that practices with tackling are more likely to cause a concussion than practices that don’t include tackling. Additionally, the decision allows for appropriate recovery time to prevent both heat illness and overuse injuries.

 

[TerryP]

Research says that practices with tackling are more likely to cause a concussion than practices that don’t include tackling

If we only knew.

Division I football players will no longer have multiple contact practices a day in the preseason, the Division I Council decided at its April 13-14 meeting in Indianapolis.

I don't see this as a big deal, at all. Have one in shells, second in pads (or vice-versa.)

 

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[UAgrad93]

@TerryP , problem with a shells practice and then a full pads practice or vice-versa, you will ALWAYS have some dipshit that goes full speed or coaches that call a "thud" practice in shells. Thud being full speed up to contact and not going to the ground.

 

[TerryP]

@uagrad93 Good point.

I wasn't aware they were trying to slip this part in ... just came across it a few minutes ago.

Also bundled in the proposal is 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.
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I noticed that in Jeremy Crabtree's breakdown for ESPN's recruiting side of things ...

 

[BamaFan334]

@TerryP , problem with a shells practice and then a full pads practice or vice-versa, you will ALWAYS have some dipshit that goes full speed or coaches that call a "thud" practice in shells. Thud being full speed up to contact and not going to the ground.

Got that right.