The NCAA lifted the official visit restriction of Five Schools for Football. Official visits may now be done to an unlimited number of schools. One visit per school unless a coaching change has occurred between visits.
I think this is a great option for the athletes but will make it a tad harder on recruiting staff's as this likely increases significantly the athletes coming to all campuses.
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I don't know how the coaches/staffs do it. Happy the players get more options though.
Either (a) they get burned out or (b) they have a staff of hundreds and manage to not work more than 80 hours/week.
The off season schedule has to change. You can't sign high schools, prep for bowl season, and search the transfer market all at the same time. These three activities need three distinct time periods during the season. Everyone (fans, coaches, players) would benefit from this.
Or have dedicated staffers for each.
It's still a lot for a head coach. Back in the day, when there was no ESD and everyone signed in February, on field coaches could focus on game prep and then focus on closing/landing recruits. Now, with ESD being in the middle of bowl season, it's really difficult.
It makes it difficult to follow too. I absolutely love bowl season. I also love the transfer portal and recruiting. And I missed most of bowl season because I spent my limited free time following player acquisition. It would just be a better fan experience if those things didn't overlap.
That window of time between the regular season and ESD sounds like an absolute nightmare.
It sucks from the fam perspective too
Also, it another thing that tilts the playing favor in favor of the P2 - more cash means they can invest in resources that will help them weather the insanely busy part of the year. ACC pay means youre either overworked or missing opportunities (realistically both).
Yeah I really sympathize with the staff. And not just the coaches making the big bucks but all the support staff. It's a 365 days a year grind and keeps getting crazier. Only programs with the most absurd amount of resources are going to be able to compete. Yeah options and choices for the player are nice, but there have to be rules and regulations somewhere. Complete failure by the NCAA to manage anything lately, I think they are just saying 'yolo' to everything since they lost the NIL case.
I'm starting to think the NCAA is doing it on purpose in hopes that it will help get a more favorable ruling in congress
Important caveat to this is schools are still limited to 56 official visits.
https://footballscoop.com/news/ncaa-removes-limits-on-how-many-official-...
Will be interested to see if top recruits are the only ones taking 6+ visits or if it'll trickle down to 3 stars.