Big Ten Coaches Want NCAA To Slow Down On Rule Change

Big Ten Network

http://btn.com/2013/02/12/dienhart-recruiting-rule-changes-coaches-say-slow-down/

Indiana coach Kevin Wilson gets it. He understands the need for the NCAA to continue attempts to streamline its New York City-phone-book-thick rule book. In many instances, that’s OK as many feel there are too many rules that are too confusing and too difficult to track and enforce.

But a proposed move to unhinge recruiting restrictions by allowing schools unlimited contact with high school players beginning with the summer prior to their junior season has Wilson and his Big Ten coaching brethren on edge.

Wilson says that he and other coaches in the Big Ten aren’t necessarily against the new measure, which if passed this summer would mean that on Aug. 1 college coaches won’t be limited by dead periods and quiet periods when it comes to calling and sending text messages to 2014 recruits. It’ll be unlimited calls and texts.

Rather, Wilson and the Big Ten coaches think more time is needed to study the impact of the new unlimited contact rule proposal, one of several up for vote this summer that will impact recruiting.

“We looked around the room yesterday, and no one said that they had been asked for their input on this rule change,” Wilson said. “All we ask for is common sense. That’s the phrase that kept coming up: common sense. Does this make sense? How will it impact recruits? Their families? High school coaches? Have any of those questions been asked or studied? Has this been thought through?”