2022-2023 Recruiting Calendar

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NCAA Division 1 football recruiting rules​

D1 football coaches can send athletes recruiting questionnaires, camp brochures and non-athletic institutional publications freshman and sophomore year. Most other contact begins September 1 of the athlete’s junior year, according to the NCAA football recruiting rules.

• September 1 of junior year: Athletes can receive any form of private, electronic communication. This includes emails, recruiting materials, texts and direct messages on social media.
• April 1 of junior year through the Sunday before the last Wednesday in June after junior year (June 26, 2021): A college may pay for a prospective student-athlete and two family members to visit campus. After this date, a college may offer an expense-paid visit after Sept. 1 of senior year
• April 15 through May 31 of junior year: During this time, coaches can call athletes one time. Additional calls can be made after September 1 of the athlete’s senior year.
• July 1 before senior year: Coaches can contact athletes off-campus, but only during the contact periods. Coaches are only allowed six off-campus contacts with each student-athlete.
• First day of classes senior year: Athletes can take official visits, using a maximum of five.
• September 1 of senior year: Coaches can call athletes once a week after this time, and they can call recruits unlimited times during the contact period.
• Senior year: Coaches can evaluate each recruit once during September, October and November. Coaches can take 42 total evaluation days at their discretion during this window.
• Evaluation days: Coaches can evaluate each recruit three times. They can take one evaluation per recruit in the fall, and then two evaluations from April 15 to May 31.

 

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Sport (s)	Initial Signing Date	Final Signing Date
Division I Football (Early Period)	December 21, 2022	December 23, 2022

Division I Football (Midyear JC Transfer)	December 21, 2022	January 15, 2023
Division I Football (Regular Period)	February 1, 2023	Division I: April 1, 2023

 

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• DI Football Oversight Committee proposes changes to recruiting calendar - NCAA.org

The Division I Football Oversight Committee on Thursday recommended legislation to the Division I Council to modify the FBS and FCS football recruiting calendars. If approved by the Council during a virtual meeting scheduled for Oct. 27, the changes would be effective immediately in Division I.
Under the proposal, the Sunday after Thanksgiving Day will be an evaluation period, and a four-day dead period will begin the Monday after Thanksgiving Day.
Also, a uniform five-day quiet period will replace the existing seven-day quiet period before the start of classes of a school's second academic term. The new quiet period will begin on the Wednesday before the first Saturday in January for two-year and four-year college transfer prospective student-athletes who intend to enroll at midyear.
The proposed changes are intended to provide an opportunity for student-athletes and coaches to engage in conversations about future participation and standardize dates of the quiet period at the beginning of the calendar year.
The additional dead period in November is intended to allow coaching staffs an opportunity to prioritize in-person conversations with current student-athletes after the conclusion of the season before the December contact period and the opening of the FBS NCAA Transfer Portal window.

 

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Portal open for Fall sports April 15-30 2023.

 

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• March 1 – April 14, 2023: Quiet period

The NCAA defines the quiet period as a time when “a college coach may not have face-to-face contact with college-bound student-athletes or their parents off the college campus and may not watch student-athletes compete or visit their high school.” To break it down, the NCAA Quiet Period is a time you can talk to college coaches in-person on their college campus. However, the coach is not allowed to watch athletes compete in-person, visit their school, talk to them at their home—or talk to them anywhere outside of the college campus.

 

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Comprehensive DI football recruiting model recommended - NCAA.org

The Division I Football Oversight Committee is recommending a comprehensive recruiting model for the sport to the Division I Council. The council is scheduled to

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The Division I Football Oversight Committee is recommending a comprehensive recruiting model for the sport to the Division I Council. The council is scheduled to meet April 12-13.
If approved, the changes would become legislation and, except for a Football Championship Subdivision on-campus evaluation recommendation, take effect Aug. 1. The FCS on-campus recommendation would take effect June 1.
The football comprehensive recruiting model would modify the FBS and FCS recruiting calendars; adjust the first date to send recruiting materials, electronic correspondence and telephone calls; permit in-person off-campus contacts with high school juniors; reduce off-campus recruiting activities; and, in the Football Championship Subdivision, modify on-campus evaluations.
Jean Gee, the chair of the Comprehensive Recruiting Review Subcommittee and senior associate athletics director for student affairs and compliance at Montana, said the group has gathered responses from throughout the Division I football community for over a year with three specific goals in mind.
"We wanted to maintain and strengthen the scholastic recruiting model for football, prioritize coach work/life balance and attention to current student-athletes and rules that are enforceable and monitorable, as well as creating transparency in the recruiting process," Gee said. "The subcommittee developed these recommendations through regular and numerous meetings, review of membership feedback from a variety of constituents and collaboration with FBS and FCS conferences."
Modifications to the recruiting calendar in both the Football Bowl Subdivision and FCS include:

• Schools would have 33 evaluation days (42 for U.S. service academies) during the months of September, October and November, selected at the discretion of the school. Only authorized off-campus recruiters could visit a prospective student-athlete's educational institution and on only one calendar day during this period.
• The Monday of the week that includes the initial date for the regular signing period of the National Letter of Intent through the first Sunday in March would be a dead period.
• For U.S. service academies, the Friday immediately after the initial date for the regular signing period of the National Letter of Intent through the first Sunday in March would be a quiet period.
• At the discretion of the membership school, coaches would have 140 recruiting person days (180 for U.S. service academies) from April 15 through the Saturday preceding Memorial Day for a contact period.
• The Sunday before Memorial Day and the next three calendar days would be a dead period.

The recruiting package also would standardize the date of the first opportunity for schools to initiate a telephone call to an individual (or their family members) or to send recruiting materials and electronic correspondence. June 15 at the conclusion of a prospect's sophomore year of high school would be the first date any of those activities could occur. The recommendation also eliminates the restrictions on the number of telephone calls an institution may initiate. Once a school is permitted to initiate a telephone call to an individual, there would not be a limit on the number of calls the school may initiate to that individual.
In addition to the recommendations for the recruiting calendar and the first date for calling or sending recruiting materials or electronic correspondence, the model also changes the first opportunity for off-campus contact with prospects:

• Off-campus recruiting contacts could not be made with an individual (or the individual's family members) before Jan. 1 of the individual's junior year in high school.
• A school would be limited to eight off-campus, in-person contacts with a prospective student-athlete and the prospect's family members for the prospect's junior and senior years combined.
• Contact could occur only one time per week.
• Contacts that occur during the prospective student-athlete's junior year in high school could occur only at the prospective student-athlete's educational institution.
• Schools would be allowed up to two off-campus contacts during the January contact period of a prospective student-athlete's junior year of high school. A school would also be allowed one off-campus contact during the spring contact period of a prospective student-athlete's junior year of high school.
• The head football coach could make only one off-campus contact during the prospective student-athlete's junior year and one off-campus contact during the prospective student-athlete's senior year in high school with a prospect or their family members. The model would not change the off-campus recruiting prohibition of FBS head coaches during the spring contact period.

The model includes one recommendation that is unique to FCS — the opportunity to conduct an on-campus evaluation with a prospective student-athlete, provided specific conditions are met:

• The prospect is a high school junior, high school senior, two-year college transfer or four-year college transfer.
• The on-campus evaluation must be conducted during an unofficial visit after the prospect's scholastic season has concluded.
• The on-campus evaluation must occur during the month of June.
• Before participating in an on-campus evaluation, a prospect is required to undergo a medical examination or evaluation administered or supervised by a family or team physician. A nurse practitioner whose state medical licensure allows for health care practice independent of physician supervision may complete the medical examination without supervision by a physician. The examination or evaluation should include a sickle cell solubility test unless documented results of a prior test are provided to the school.
• The medical examination or evaluation must be administered either within six months before participation in the on-campus evaluation or within six months before the prospective student-athlete's initial participation in practice, competition or out-of-season conditioning activities during the immediately completed season. In addition, the medical examination or evaluation may be conducted by a school's regular team physician or other designated physician as a part of the on-campus evaluation.
• The on-campus evaluation activities cannot exceed one hour; all activities must be noncontact; no protective equipment can be worn by the prospect; and only authorized off-campus recruiters may conduct the on-campus evaluation.
• Individuals whose responsibilities include video recording may be present at, but not conduct, the on-campus evaluation.

To provide FCS schools the opportunity to conduct on-campus evaluations this June, the Football Oversight Committee is recommending this part of the model be effective June 1.
"The model provides coaches additional time on campus to focus on the development of current student-athletes," said Patty Viverito, vice chair of the Division I Football Oversight Committee and commissioner of the Missouri Valley Football Conference. "This was developed with input from coaches, student-athletes and campus and conference football administrators."
Like Viverito, Isaac Vance, a graduate football student-athlete at Kent State, participated in the process as a member of the Football Oversight Committee and its Comprehensive Recruiting Review Subcommittee.
"This new recruiting model recommendation will benefit all current and prospective student-athletes, as well as coaches," Vance said. "These recommendations were developed by the FOC through countless meetings, surveys and incredible collaboration that included the Division I Football Oversight Student-Athlete Connection Group."
The Football Oversight Committee will continue to discuss and evaluate the FBS and FCS recruiting rules, even if the recommended model is adopted by the NCAA Division I Council next week.
"As we are in a time of significant change, it is important to continue to update our recruiting model to adjust to this new landscape," said Todd Berry, the executive director of the American Football Coaches Association and ex officio member of the Division I Football Oversight Committee. "This model is reflective of months of collaboration between the AFCA, the NCAA and the NCAA membership. These are the beginning steps to modernize our model with continued understanding that more will need to be done."

 

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Just a reminder that the Dead Period starts next week on 6/27/23 for a month. No more camps or visits to campus until 7/25/23

 

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DI approves changes to reinstatement guidelines for sports wagering violations - NCAA.org

The Division I Legislative Committee on Tuesday ratified a Division I Committee on Student Athlete Reinstatement decision to amend guidelines for reinstating the

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Transfer windows​

The council introduced a proposal to reduce notification-of-transfer windows to 30 days, down from 60. Data from the past year indicate that most student-athletes enter the Transfer Portal at the beginning of the transfer window.

Now that the proposal has been formally introduced, respective oversight committees and the Division I Student Athlete Advisory Committee will gather additional feedback and offer potential amendments to the proposal over the summer. A final vote on the proposal will be considered by the council during its October meeting.

 

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NCAA Changes Official Visit Rules and More for 2023

The NCAA has changed the official visit rule for Division 1 schools. Get the latest info on the new NCAA updates for 2023.

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