College Recruitment Survey

The purpose of this survey is to gather some concrete feedback on a broad scale about the current and potential state of recruiting in the college game. More and more, clubs are frustrated with overzealous parents and players who no longer care about getting better, training, being great teammates, and winning; but only focus on recruiting. And college coaches are more or less forced to recruit at younger and younger ages, which extends their recruiting calendar, spreads them thinner, makes them push boundaries that are both ethically and legislatively questionable, and most importantly hurts their families and overall quality of life. Ultimately, we believe changes that will help college coaches quality of life and high school athletes ability to enjoy being kids and enjoy the game is achievable.

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* 1. The current date for all forms of communication via email, text and phone calls is September 1st before junior year. Do you feel it should be changed?

Yes

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* 2. If Yes, which of the following would you choose:

Allow communication starting September 1 of the player's sophomore year

Allow communication starting January 1 of the player's sophomore year

Have no restrictions on communication

Allow communication June 1 of the player's sophomore year

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* 3. What type of contact should be allowed as soon as players and coaches are allowed to contact each other?

Email only until Junior year when they can phone or text

Move all modes of direct contact to sophomore year.

Remove all contact restrictions

Other

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* 4. Should all forms of contact (including discussions with a club director about a player) be banned prior to the communication period you selected in question #2.

Yes

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* 5. The Division Coaches are proposing a calendar will put quiet periods in January up to President’s Day weekend in February, add Memorial Day to the May quiet period and add all of August as a summer quiet period. The total number of 80 days will not change. Would you be in favor of this change?

Yes

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* 6. Which of the following would you be in favor of allowing for on-campus visits (taking into consideration your answer to #2)? For the purpose of this question, "on-campus" visits is one in which the PSA meets with the coaching staff (this would exclude PSA's visiting a campus to see the school, meet with a school counselor, professor, etc.).

Allow visits starting September 1 of the player's sophomore year

Allow visits starting January 1 of the player's sophomore year

Allow visits June 1 of the player's sophomore year

Have no restrictions on visits

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* 7. Would you be in favor of allowing official visits as soon as the contact period begins?

Yes

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* 8. Would you be in favor of putting a cap on the number of official and/or unofficial visits a college coach can have (for purposes of this question, this would not include a player visiting the school unless that player meets with the coaches)?

Yes

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