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What the NCAA Quiet Period REALLY Means for Baseball Recruits | Don’t Waste Your Time or $$$

18 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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Alex Swenson (YouTube video) explains what the NCAA "quiet period" means for baseball recruits: despite the name, college coaches may still contact eligible recruits via phone, text, and email and may recruit in person only on their own campus. Coaches are prohibited from recruiting, watching, or having in-person contact with recruits off their campus during the quiet period, so recruits should not expect coaches at off-campus showcases or tournaments; instead, on-campus visits, camps, and electronic contact are the primary recruitment opportunities during this time.

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We just entered a new recruiting period for my baseball guys. We just left the contact period and entered the quiet period. Why is that important? A couple things. One, the name is terrible because it implies that college coaches can't talk to you. That can't be farther from the truth. College coaches can call you, can text you, can email you during the quiet period as long as you're eligible for them to contact you. And the other important thing is I just don't want you guys going to showcases and tournaments that are off the campuses of these universities thinking that college coaches will be there because they won't. That's the big difference between the quiet period is college coaches can't go off their campus and recruit you, watch you, or have any in person contact with you. They can do that on their campus and they can have contact with you electronically via phone and text and email and all of those things. So if you want to get front of college coaches, you're only going to be able to do that on their campus. So college coaches can invite you to visit and even offer you during the quiet period. And you see a lot of college camps pop up during this time because that's where they can recruit. That's the only place they can recruit is on their campus. Hopefully that helps. Good luck.