DRC: NCAA legislation will have impact on local football scene

[Brett Vito]

DRC: New recruiting rules, extra coaching spot will affect UNT, local high schools going forward

http://beta.dentonrc.com/sports/mean-green/2017/04/14/ncaa-legislation-proposals-impact-local-football-scene

[outoftown]

Independently of whether all of those changes are good or bad for UNT, I love it. Particularly the part with oversigning and grayshirting are things I hated wherever they happened and I also love that two year no signing people too close thing. Even the camps could be ok, although I wish they would have given more than a 10 days period (which kind of means most recruits can only go to places).

[emmitt01]

I like the December signing idea.  Hopefully it prevents P5's from poaching at the last second because they lose out on a kid who wants to make his own late January version of "The Decision".

[outoftown]

48 minutes ago, emmitt01 said:

I like the December signing idea.  Hopefully it prevents P5's from poaching at the last second because they lose out on a kid who wants to make his own late January version of "The Decision".

I like the earlier signing for the recruits, as they can get done with things earlier and then focus on academics etc for a good time longer and be better ready to get to college. Reduces the time when they get incessant texts from coaches, tweets from fans etc. However in terms of power, I think this will not change quite as much. All the big P5 programs will just hire more scouts to get done earlier with their film study, after all the High school season is done by then. That said, for our staff in particular, compared to other G5 staffs it could be good. I think they are good at identifying real talent but not so good at convincing recruits for it once other staffs identified it to. Other G5 staffs will not have more resources so this could be good for this particular UNT staff.

Edited April 15, 2017 by outoftown