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    Cabinet to study Division I recruiting model

    Jan 28, 2010 8:57:12 AM


    The NCAA News

     

    The Division I Recruiting and Athletics Personnel Issues Cabinet will consider changes to the recruiting model at its February 3-4 meeting in Indianapolis.

    The examination will focus on four key areas both separately and together:

    The group intends to develop several working models for membership review and reaction.

    The models are expected to include varying levels of prospective student-athlete control and could also incorporate academic requirements into the recruiting process (for both the prospect and the coach through the coaches' Academic Progress Rate portfolio), linked to contacts, evaluations, campus visits and offers of aid.

    The group will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of both a streamlined approach for all sports versus a model that accommodates unique challenges in specific sports. It also will address how changes in technology affect the recruiting process and will weigh the benefits and costs of earlier or less-restrictive access to prospects versus later and more-restrictive access.

    Last year, the cabinet developed principles intended to guide its work in developing new recruiting models. Among the goals were maintaining competitive equity, preserving prospective student-athlete well-being, supporting the needs of institutional coaches and administrators (including compliance personnel who monitor recruiting), and using resources effectively. The cabinet also hopes to simplify and deregulate legislation surrounding communication with recruits.

    Early recruitment, identified as a problem in several sports, also will be addressed, though the issue is complicated by the difficulty of monitoring verbal offers of athletics aid and possible increased pressure on recruits.

    The cabinet hopes to put forward several concepts for the membership to consider, with an eye toward crafting legislative concepts for the 2010-11 cycle.