Alex Swenson breaks down a new NCAA Division I baseball rule banning coach contact with high school players until August 1 before their junior year. Coaches can still watch players and show interest at camps, but the quiet period is meant to stop recruiting from starting too early.
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Big news for Division 1 baseball recruiting. NCAA is about to sign off on April 26, where Division 1 coaches cannot communicate and cannot offer high school players until August 1, the summer before their junior year. So going into your junior year, August 1, coaches cannot communicate with you and cannot offer you. I think this is a healthy thing. Early recruitment just got crazy. We were seeing offers and commitments in eighth and seventh grade. It was just insane. Now the thing is, they can communicate with you at their camp so they can express interest there. So that's going to be important to know. There's a lot of information that we got to dig through to kind of pull out of this. We'll get more information as we get closer to April 26. College coaches are still going to be watching players, freshmen and sophomore year to have on their watch list and their interest list. So still a lot to come from this. But I wanted to give you guys a heads up because this was breaking news.