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NCAA lifts restrictions on official visits
Good news for recruits but probably minimal impact for head coaches / schools.
Recruits are now no longer limited to 5 "official visits"(expenses paid)
BUT...
Recruits can still only take 1 official visit to any one school.
Schools are still limited to 56 official visits per year(for football)
Lanning notes the sentiment of most coaches, I am assuming --- if he is going to offer a coveted official visit to a recruit it will be to someone who has a good chance of committing. Not interested in a recruit who is taking a 10 official visit excursion around the country.
I don't follow recruiting at all beyond reading headline announcements so I have no idea if 56 is a reasonable number or too restrictive. With an 85 scholarship limitation, 56 a year seems like plenty on the surface.
Yet it makes me think of the advantages say UCLA or USC have recruiting LA. If a kid grew up in LA do they even need an "official visit" offer? They most likely have been to games, on campus, talked with coaches who came to watch their games and so forth.
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Re: NCAA lifts restrictions on official visits
For Oregon, what would really help is to add more days for evaluations and recruiting trips. Ducks are at a disadvantage due to distance since we recruit nationwide.
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Re: NCAA lifts restrictions on official visits
This is a weird and completely unnecessary update to the policy on official visits. Great news for the Top 300 recruits. Terrible for what it does to most programs that cannot afford to let barely interested guys gobble up valuable visits just because they list the school on a Top 10 list...
As to the importance of these, be reminded that when Oregon was sanctioned for recruiting violations during the Chip/Lyles deal, OV reduction was the primary punishment. And as we saw, the combination of reduced OVs and the recruiting savvy of Helfrich created a lethal combo that sent the program into a talent spiral until Mario was able to right the ship.
An in terms of "unofficial visits," these from what I recall are unlimited as the onus for all expenses is placed on the recruit and his family with the only "freebie" for the player is a sideline pass. Hence, LA schools lining up sideline passes galore of unofficials. Just a byproduct of a prime location, cannot hate them for that...
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