http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8937471/big-ten-coaches-ads-object-proposed-ncaa-recruiting-rules Makes sense to me!
It would seem to me that there would be more opposition to this than just the Big Ten coaches. Wonder where everybody else is?
Stu, That thought crossed my mind as well. I would imagine others will step forward, at least I hope they will.
I haven't seen too much from other leagues or coaches. I can't say I've seen a comment from either Mack Brown or Brian Kelly. But I do think that HS kids are going to get a barrage of stuff now from coaches and while many of them love the attention, I think they will finally get to the level that even they will say ..Enough!
Maybe that's what the NCAA was thinking....I imagine that when the period for contact arrived, that these kids were overwhelmed then also. The NCAA probably is just washing their hands in it and saying "Good luck Guys, you deal with it".
Terry is right. I mean, if you are a kid who is in the top 250 you are already getting so many letters, texts, phone calls, visitors and emails that most stop reading all of that about 20% of the way through the process. That's with regulated recruiting contacts. If you take the lid off of that, I can't honestly wrap my head around how absurd it would be. Further, once you push that envelope, where do you go from here? People would lose their minds if ND could run weekend 'getting to know you' segments of their recruits on NBC but if it were legal, I'd have no issue with the Irish doing it..regardless of my moral standpoint on all of this. However, in the reality of the now there will be such a flooding of contact that the wheels will finally be off the wagon of amateurism in college football. Schools will simply hire marketing teams that will handle the advertising portion of recruiting contact. Instead of protecting the kids from agents, you'll be showering the kids with them. As a fan of a team who has almost unlimited resources to match or exceed whatever absurd campaign people will put out there, I think this is a God awful idea. Simply enforce the rules that are in place. It's not hard, actually.
This is an article from OrangeBloods.Com about where Texas sits in the new recruiting race. The key for me is what Alabama has done (all within the rules) which reflects their total committment to winning in football. It's free article: The New Recruiting There is a lot of money in football, that is what is driving everything from the destruction of Big East Basketball to the playoffs. How many schools have the resources to do what Alabama has done? Texas certainly does, Notre Dame certainly does, Michigan, Ohio State, certainly do. Most of the top SEC teams do for sure. But it's certainly going to ultimately result in the rich getting richer and I would suggest that those who thought we should form a 64 team league and seperate ourselves from the rest of college football are close to being right.