MADXSTER
01-20-2009, 07:55 PM
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A change in prospect-ive
January 15, 2009
The NCAA voted overwhelmingly Thursday to change the definition of a prospect from 9th grade to 7th grade - for men's basketball only - to stop a trend in which some college coaches were working at private, elite camps and clinics for seventh- and eighth-graders. The NCAA couldn't regulate those camps because those youngsters fell below the current cutoff.
The NCAA voted overwhelmingly Thursday to change the definition of a prospect from 9th grade to 7th grade - for men's basketball only - to stop a trend in which some college coaches were working at private, elite camps and clinics for seventh- and eighth-graders. The NCAA couldn't regulate those camps because those youngsters fell below the current cutoff.
It's about time. We'll go one step further: We personally don't think colleges should be able to take verbals for commitments until 11th grade.
One more thing: The NCAA has also passed legislation that would eliminate basketball teams from taking Labor Day exhibition trips, which would allow coaches to play freshmen, who have enrolled but not actually taken a class. Summer trips are still allowed.
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NCAA's double dribble
January 18, 2009
The NCAA took another questionable step in its efforts to rein in amateur basketball, upholding a ban on men's college coaches attending April weekend tournaments that annually attract hundreds of high school players from around the country. More than half of the association's Division I schools — 144 of 262 with two abstentions — voted against an override effort mounted late last summer. A five-eighths majority the other way was needed to rescind it.
A change in prospect-ive
January 15, 2009
The NCAA voted overwhelmingly Thursday to change the definition of a prospect from 9th grade to 7th grade - for men's basketball only - to stop a trend in which some college coaches were working at private, elite camps and clinics for seventh- and eighth-graders. The NCAA couldn't regulate those camps because those youngsters fell below the current cutoff.
The NCAA voted overwhelmingly Thursday to change the definition of a prospect from 9th grade to 7th grade - for men's basketball only - to stop a trend in which some college coaches were working at private, elite camps and clinics for seventh- and eighth-graders. The NCAA couldn't regulate those camps because those youngsters fell below the current cutoff.
It's about time. We'll go one step further: We personally don't think colleges should be able to take verbals for commitments until 11th grade.
One more thing: The NCAA has also passed legislation that would eliminate basketball teams from taking Labor Day exhibition trips, which would allow coaches to play freshmen, who have enrolled but not actually taken a class. Summer trips are still allowed.
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NCAA's double dribble
January 18, 2009
The NCAA took another questionable step in its efforts to rein in amateur basketball, upholding a ban on men's college coaches attending April weekend tournaments that annually attract hundreds of high school players from around the country. More than half of the association's Division I schools — 144 of 262 with two abstentions — voted against an override effort mounted late last summer. A five-eighths majority the other way was needed to rescind it.