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  • NCAA Considers Ban on Early Scholarship Offers

    What is being considered:
    - No scholarship granted before July 1 of a prospective student's junior year of high school
    - Need a transcript dicumneting at least 5 semesters or 7 quarters of academic work before being able to offer a scholarship

    How do you think this will impact NCAA hockey?

    http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5372984

  • #2
    Re: NCAA Considers Ban on Early Scholarship Offers

    So instead of schools saying "Here's a scholarship offer... Will you commit to us?" they will now say "We'll officially offer you a scholarship when you're old enough... Will you commit to us?"

    This changes nothing. Just the NCAA putting on another empty show.
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    • #3
      Re: NCAA Considers Ban on Early Scholarship Offers

      Regardless on the intent, at the end of the day its going to benefit the traditional powers in each sport.

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      • #4
        Re: NCAA Considers Ban on Early Scholarship Offers

        Originally posted by dggoddard View Post
        Regardless on the intent, at the end of the day its going to benefit the traditional powers in each sport.
        And major juniors.
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        • #5
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          Doesn't Wisconsin have a few offers out to 11 year olds right now?
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          • #6
            Re: NCAA Considers Ban on Early Scholarship Offers

            Originally posted by moe24 View Post
            So instead of schools saying "Here's a scholarship offer... Will you commit to us?" they will now say "We'll officially offer you a scholarship when you're old enough... Will you commit to us?"

            This changes nothing. Just the NCAA putting on another empty show.
            This. A lot more winking and nudging will be going on.
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            • #7
              Re: NCAA Considers Ban on Early Scholarship Offers

              Semantic loopholes will abound if this proposal is enacted. A waste of time and realistically does little to resolve the ethical issues surrounding the arms race of early college hockey recruiting. An official offer for a scholarship is attached to the NLI and many prospective college hockey players opt for an early signing (November for NCAA hockey) their senior year anyway.

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              • #8
                Re: NCAA Considers Ban on Early Scholarship Offers

                Originally posted by Runninwiththedogs View Post
                And major juniors.
                This. How old do kids have to be to get drafted in the CHL? 16? If college wants to compete at any level, they need to be able to get commitments before that.
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                • #9
                  Re: NCAA Considers Ban on Early Scholarship Offers

                  Its impossible to ban this. There are no firm commitments made at that age, so there's nothing to enforce. Any 'commitment' by a kid that age isn't binding by either party. I think the NCAA should focus its energy on something else.

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                  • #10
                    Re: NCAA Considers Ban on Early Scholarship Offers

                    Originally posted by Slasher7 View Post
                    I think the NCAA should focus its energy on something else.
                    Mascot enforcement.
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                    • #11
                      Re: NCAA Considers Ban on Early Scholarship Offers

                      Originally posted by dggoddard View Post
                      Regardless on the intent, at the end of the day its going to benefit the traditional powers in each sport.
                      What?! This would be the opposite... who gets "early commits"... is it AIC or BC? Canisius or Minnesota? Niagara or Minnesota?

                      What this will do, as has been mentioned, is hinder the NCAA vs. CHL issue... but I can see why they'd do this for other sports... to much scouting 12 year olds out there.

                      moe's description is most likely, imo.
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                      • #12
                        Re: NCAA Considers Ban on Early Scholarship Offers

                        Originally posted by moe24 View Post
                        So instead of schools saying "Here's a scholarship offer... Will you commit to us?" they will now say "We'll officially offer you a scholarship when you're old enough... Will you commit to us?"

                        This changes nothing. Just the NCAA putting on another empty show.
                        Will the players commitment be honored by other teams though. As of now, all (with the exception of one or two dastardly programs) teams follow a sort of gentleman's agreement in that they will not go after a player once he has made it known he will play for a certain team but has not yet signed a letter of intent.

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                        • #13
                          Re: NCAA Considers Ban on Early Scholarship Offers

                          The normative criteria and standards of the verbal should remain in effect. As already mentioned, this proposal is more effectual for other sports, not NCAA hockey.

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                          • #14
                            Re: NCAA Considers Ban on Early Scholarship Offers

                            No what they need to do is allow the coaches to contact the top athletes in elementary school and get verbal commitments. /s

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                            • #15
                              Re: NCAA Considers Ban on Early Scholarship Offers

                              Originally posted by jnacc View Post
                              Will the players commitment be honored by other teams though. As of now, all (with the exception of one or two dastardly programs) teams follow a sort of gentleman's agreement in that they will not go after a player once he has made it known he will play for a certain team but has not yet signed a letter of intent.
                              Er... in theory they do...
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