As you can see, these 2 issues and a host of others are going to be looked at.
From ESPN.com:
Last week the 10 FBS commissioners decided to table the debate on introducing an early signing period for football. The commissioners hope that by pushing the vote back a year that "the NCAA's new football oversight committee will further examine the proposal as an entry point to address a host of recruiting matters -- including satellite camps, oversigning and grayshirting," wrote ESPN.com's Jeremy Crabtree.
Oregon coach Mark Helfrich said that he's also in favor of the move as long as the entire recruiting calendar would be shifted, not just the signing day.
"They would have to allow us to pay for official visits like now," Helfrich said on Tuesday during a news conference. "You take the month of June and you have official visits, you eliminate any impropriety that takes place."
Currently, official visits (visits that are paid for by the university) can only happen starting the first day of the prospective student athlete's senior year. With the high school football season happening through those first few months, most football players aren't able to take that trip until November at the earliest. With a possible signing date in August, that would mean players could be signing without ever having taken an official visit to that school or any other school.
The impropriety that Helfrich was referring to was about how some high school coaches are able to collect a fee for coming to coach at college camps during the summer. The implication, as stated by Helfrich below, is that some schools might be paying certain coaches who have talented recruits on their high school teams more to come to their college camps as a way to guarantee those players are on campus. In a way, this could be looked as a quasi-official visit.
And if coaches weren't able to bring prospective student-athletes to campus in May or June before an early signing day, this kind of activity could be used more and more by certain coaches.
"We didn't get some kids on campus this summer because we didn't pay their coaches. That's a fact," Helfrich said.
The entire article: http://espn.go.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/87634/mark-helfrich-on-early-signing-day-medical-costs
From ESPN.com:
Last week the 10 FBS commissioners decided to table the debate on introducing an early signing period for football. The commissioners hope that by pushing the vote back a year that "the NCAA's new football oversight committee will further examine the proposal as an entry point to address a host of recruiting matters -- including satellite camps, oversigning and grayshirting," wrote ESPN.com's Jeremy Crabtree.
Oregon coach Mark Helfrich said that he's also in favor of the move as long as the entire recruiting calendar would be shifted, not just the signing day.
"They would have to allow us to pay for official visits like now," Helfrich said on Tuesday during a news conference. "You take the month of June and you have official visits, you eliminate any impropriety that takes place."
Currently, official visits (visits that are paid for by the university) can only happen starting the first day of the prospective student athlete's senior year. With the high school football season happening through those first few months, most football players aren't able to take that trip until November at the earliest. With a possible signing date in August, that would mean players could be signing without ever having taken an official visit to that school or any other school.
The impropriety that Helfrich was referring to was about how some high school coaches are able to collect a fee for coming to coach at college camps during the summer. The implication, as stated by Helfrich below, is that some schools might be paying certain coaches who have talented recruits on their high school teams more to come to their college camps as a way to guarantee those players are on campus. In a way, this could be looked as a quasi-official visit.
And if coaches weren't able to bring prospective student-athletes to campus in May or June before an early signing day, this kind of activity could be used more and more by certain coaches.
"We didn't get some kids on campus this summer because we didn't pay their coaches. That's a fact," Helfrich said.
The entire article: http://espn.go.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/87634/mark-helfrich-on-early-signing-day-medical-costs
