October 21, 201015 yr The Conference Commissioners Association voted 31-0 at their fall meeting last month in Chicago to recommend eliminating July men's basketball recruiting beginning in 2012 to the the Division I NCAA Board of Directors, sources with direct knowledge of the meeting told ESPN.com. According to another source, the Division I board will meet on Oct. 28 and has a number of options: accept the recommendation and implement it immediately or delay the implementation; introduce new legislation and send it through the normal governance structure; direct a study of options or do not act on the recommendation. According to the meeting's minutes, the recommendation said the new recruiting model would not include a summer recruiting period for July 2012, ESPN.com learned. All 31 Division I commissioners were in attendance and voted in favor of the proposal. Coaches are allowed to evaluate recruits for two 10-day periods in July, traversing the country from events in Akron, Ohio, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, north of Dallas, Augusta, S.C., Orlando, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, among many others. The NCAA's men's basketball focus group has been monitoring summer recruiting, looking for improvements as well as trying to eliminate violations during the period. The CCA vote, which was not made public at the time of the meetings at Big Ten headquarters, sent shockwaves through the National Association of Basketball Coaches Association. On Tuesday, an e-mail that ESPN.com obtained, was marked: "URGENT – Regarding Elimination of July Evaluation Period" was sent to all Division I coaches by Michigan State coach Tom Izzo, the current NABC president, NABC executive Jim Haney and deputy executive director Reggie Minton. The e-mail was a plea to coaches to let everyone know that the NABC is against the proposal to campaign on their campuses from athletic directors, faculty representatives and presidents, and to educate them on their position on eliminating the July period. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=5709358
October 21, 201015 yr Author If this goes through, the NCAA goes to even more EPIC levels of stupidity in trying to "improve" the game. What's the one way to make sure the agents, runners and so on have more impact then ever? Take coaches off the road for the entire spring and summer AAU period. Wow is this bad...
October 21, 201015 yr Author Telep hits it WAY out of the park... http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/16912/telep-ax-july-recruiting-bad-news
October 21, 201015 yr Wow, GT how much will this change AAU ball? I don't think CHANGE is the correct word.
October 21, 201015 yr I don't think CHANGE is the correct word. Maybe not, but GT will know what I mean...
October 21, 201015 yr Author Wow, GT how much will this change AAU ball? I think this will lead to pretty much all national events going out the window if it goes through. Might very well be the worst decision I've seen from the NCAA in a long line of bad moves that hurt the game. Here's to hoping they don't go this route...
October 21, 201015 yr The rich get richer! This will only help the top schools if it helps anyone at all. MANY high school kids get noticed at these events! Smaller colleges do not have the resources as some of the top teams and the July period is HUGE for them, being able to go out and see 100s of kids at the same time. As GT stated, this would be the worse move I've seen from the NCAA, taking the coaches out of the process during the spring and summer. There are other ways to improve it, but the NCAA refuses to do so! Edited October 21, 201015 yr by SportsGuy41017
October 22, 201015 yr I know Coach Cal is a happy man with this decision. He hated having to recruit "through" all of the posses and hanger ons. I know coaches wanted this and now they have it. The whole AAU scene was out of control with all of the wannabe handlers. This should clean up the recruiting scene.
October 22, 201015 yr I know Coach Cal is a happy man with this decision. He hated having to recruit "through" all of the posses and hanger ons. I know coaches wanted this and now they have it. The whole AAU scene was out of control with all of the wannabe handlers. This should clean up the recruiting scene. No, it's just going to shift the ugliness of the recruiting scene somewhere else.
October 22, 201015 yr No, it's just going to shift the ugliness of the recruiting scene somewhere else. CORRECT! And it will be much worse. As much as I love UK and Cal, there is another reason why in the past he said he wanted it.
October 22, 201015 yr Author This should clean up the recruiting scene. It will make it much, much, much worse...
October 22, 201015 yr From KSR: Beisner brought you the story last night of the proposed end to July recruiting in college basketball, which passed 31-0 by the conference directors on Wednesday. This is a big deal and is almost universally considered a good idea as a possible way to limit the influence of the AAU folks in the recruiting game. While those that prefer AAU coaches have balked a bit (Pitino said it was the worst idea ever today), most think it is a great suggestion, including John Calipari. Calipari believes taking all AAU away would take the AAU people out of the college recruiting process and put more emphasis on high schools and the high school coaches…where it used to be. What is clear is that by taking away July recruiting, early scouting will be even more important…as will be the impact on those who have strong connections around the country and the ability to scout at the top of their game. It will change the way recruiting is done and is worth a watch if it passes.
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