College Recruits, Commitments, Signing, Transfers, & Gone Pro
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Every year there's a new crop of fast High School senior swimmers who are trying to figure out which college they will go next year.
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Websites like SwimmingWorld.com & College Swimming follow this closely and report updates. The class of 2013 contains some truly incredible swimmers. Some say it's the best ever. Missy Franklin, Ryan Murphy, Jack Conger,
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Athletes are talking with coaches, making their short lists, setting up & going on recruiting trips, then they receive offers, & ultimately make commitments and sign. Atheletes get 5 official recruiting trips and unlimited unofficial visits. Official is where the coach invites the athlete and the university pays for everything.
Div 1 womens programs have 14 scholarships &
Div 1 Men's Programs have 9.9
but that's how many scholarships they can offer each year, but the total scholarships for the team. Few swimmers get full rides, most are offered partial scholarships. If coaches evenly divide scholarships among the classes Men have 2.49 & women have 3.5 each year. Some swimmers have to make sacrifices and consider the overall cost of the school they select.
Academic Scholarships don't count toward the team total, but it's swimming & diving so if the school has a diving program, they'll need parts of scholarships to attract and sign athletes.
Coaches have a little insight to a swimmers family financial situation by putting their addresses into Zillow.com which tells them the estimated market value of the house, they can also find out parent occupations, background, & whether they're together or divorced. Many consider the costs of in state versus out of state tuitions.
If a coach has been around a long time, they might recruit children of their former swimmers.
Then comes signing day. Signing the National Letter of Intent. NLI
Swimming's Early Period is November 14, 2012 - November 21, 2012 &
Regular Period is April 17, 2013 - August 1, 2013.
Most top athletes sign in November.
Coaches consider what athletes have done and what they are capable of.
they look at their time progressions, their ages by year and month, their personalities, their work ethic, their maturity mental & physical, their abilities, if they can fit in and thrive with the team, if they can survive academicly, coaches have Plan A, B, C, D on out to Z. they are all looking for diamonds in the rough, late bloomers and athletes who are capable of making massive improvement. New recruits are the life blood of every NCAA program.
Coaches have a tight set of NCAA recruiting rules they must follow. If you went to a particular college, there's also NCAA Rules for boosters.
Separating fact from fiction in The Blind Side - NCAA.org
May 10, 2011
Top schools and coaches tend to get the best recruits.
Athletes want to develop to the best of their ability & hopefully be on a team that wins NCAAs
Women's 2012 NCAA Results
2012 Div 1 Women Top 20 Team Rankings
01. 412.5 Cal Berkeley
02. 366.0 Georgia
03. 325.5 Southern Cali
04. 318.0 Stanford
05. 299.0 Arizona
06. 262.0 Texas A&M
07. 249.0 Auburn
07. 249.0 Tennessee
09. 201.0 Texas
10. 160.0 Florida
11. 131.0 Minnesota
12. 123.0 Arizona St
13. 115.0 Indiana
14. 098.0 Missouri
15. 091.0 Wisconsin
16. 067.0 So. Methodist
17. 060.0 Virginia
18. 051.0 Virginia Tech
19. 044.0 UNC
20. 034.0 Ohio St
2012 Div 1 Men's NCAA Results
2012 Div 1 Men's Top 20 Team Rankings
01. 535.5 Cal Berkeley
02. 491.0 Texas
03. 426.5 Stanford
04. 396.0 Arizona
05. 271.0 Michigan
06. 254.5 Auburn
07. 192.0 Southern Cali
08. 157.0 Florida
09. 156.0 Louisville
10. 140.0 Indiana
11. 106.5 Georgia
12. 106.0 Ohio St
13. 097.0 Texas A&M
14. 074.5 UNC
15. 065.0 Virginia
16. 061.0 Florida St
17. 056.0 Penn St
18. 055.0 Virginia Tech
19. 046.0 Missouri
20. 036.0 Arizona State
Results
There will be many articles and announcements in the coming months.
Guide for the College-Bound Student-Athlete
Divisions I and II Initial-Eligibility Requirementsages/
Registration Checklist
Amatuerism
Boosters
What are examples of impermissible recruiting activities?
As a booster, you may not:
• Contact a prospect in-person on-campus or off campus.
• Contact a prospect by telephone, email, Internet or letter.
• Provide gifts or free or reduced-cost services to a prospect or the prospect’s relatives or guardian.
• Employ relatives, guardians or friends of a prospect as an inducement for the prospect’s enrollment and athletics participation at a university.
• Become directly or indirectly involved in making arrangements for a prospect or the prospect’s relatives or guardian to receive money or financial aid of any kind.
• Provide transportation for a prospect or the prospect’s relatives or guardian.
• Provide free or reduced-cost tickets for a prospect or the prospect’s relatives or guardian to attend an athletic event.
• Provide any material benefit (e.g., meals, cash) to the coach of a prospect, including high school, two-year college, AAU and summer team coaches.
What are examples of permissible activities?
Even though there are many rules prohibiting your involvement with prospects and the recruiting process, as a booster, you may:
• Notify university coaching staff members about noteworthy prospects in the area.
• Attend high school or two-year college athletic contests or other events where prospects may compete, provided no contact occurs.
• Continue existing friendships.
What are examples of impermissible extra benefits for enrolled student-athletes?
As a booster, you may not provide a student-athlete or a student-athlete’s friends, relatives or guardians:
• Tickets to college or professional sporting events.
• A special discount, payment arrangement or credit on a purchase or service.
• Cash or loan or signing or co-signing of a loan.
• Transportation, payment of expense or loan of any automobile.
• Benefits or gifts based upon the student-athlete’s athletic performance.
• Free or reduced rent or housing.
An honorarium to a student-athlete for a speaking engagement.
What are examples of permissible benefits for enrolled student-athletes?
With the various NCAA rules and regulations regarding benefits to student-athletes, it may seem difficult to be a part of a university’s athletic programs. However, you can show your support as a booster in other ways. Boosters may:
• Make contributions to university programs and other gift-in-kind arrangements.
• Attend university athletic events and show student athletes you support their hard work and dedication to the university.
Are there any rules for the employment of enrolled student-athletes by boosters?
Student-athletes may only be compensated for work actually performed and at a rate commensurate with the going rate. Compensation may not include remuneration for the value that the student-athlete may have for the employer due to the student-athlete’s athletics status. Transportation may not be provided to student athletes unless it is a benefit provided to all employees.
NCAA to Consider Major Rules Changes on January 19th in Dallas
below are a few excerpts that apply to swimming and swimmers:
When the NCAA Division I Board of Directors meets on January 19th in Grapevine, Texas, just outside of Dallas, they will vote on some significant rules changes that will affect the way that college coaches are able to recruit athletes. ...
The overall move is toward relaxing rules involved in recruiting and giving coaches and student-athletes more freedom during the process.
The biggest impacts on swimming are Proposals No. 13-2 and 13-3.
13-2 would establish a uniform contact date for coaches to begin calling student-athletes after July 1st of their sophomore year. Many sports (basketball, volleyball) allow a June 15th after sophomore year timeline, but in swimming a coach cannot call a student-athlete until after July 1 of your junior year. Swimmers can call a coach as a sophomore or a junior, but a coach cannot call a student-athlete. This move is supported to create more uniform rules across sports, rather than the patchwork calendar that exists now.
Proposal 13-3 would “remove restrictions governing modes and numerical limitations on recruiting communication,” which has received support from a “working group” of university presidents that has met effectively as a discussion committee to vet these ideas out, as well as the student-athlete advisory committee. This has been a big topic of debate, given the various new forms of communication that are available for communications between coaches and athletes. The opposite side of the coin is a fear that coaches could overwhelm student-athletes and distract them from focusing on their education and training.
Proposal 16-2 would be especially significant to athletes in Olympic sports, which would allow the schools, the USOC and other national governing bodies to provide actual and necessary expenses for a student-athlete to receive awards, meaning that college athletes would be able to be reimbursed either by the school or USA Swimming to travel, for example, to the Golden Goggles awards, as well as their parents and other relatives.
One more rule under the “16′s” involving money that has a big effect on swimming is rule 16-8, which would allow student-athletes to receive “necessary expenses and reasonable benefits” to pay for national team practice and competition, as well as allowing schools to pay for swimmers’ travel to national team tryouts and championship events. That could have huge, wide-reaching effects in swimming, and specifically would tilt the scales even further toward large, well-endowed programs. Given what we’ve seen in other ruling by the NCAA, especially in rulings allowing athletes in competition for championships to sit out of classes while training for championship events, this could have a huge, wide-ranging impact on allowing schools to pay for athletes’ travel to many different USA Swimming events, even if it’s not for purposes of representing the school.
NCAA to Consider Major Rules Changes on January 19th in Dallas
below are a few excerpts that apply to swimming and swimmers:
When the NCAA Division I Board of Directors meets on January 19th in Grapevine, Texas, just outside of Dallas, they will vote on some significant rules changes that will affect the way that college coaches are able to recruit athletes. ...
The overall move is toward relaxing rules involved in recruiting and giving coaches and student-athletes more freedom during the process.
The biggest impacts on swimming are Proposals No. 13-2 and 13-3.
13-2 would establish a uniform contact date for coaches to begin calling student-athletes after July 1st of their sophomore year. Many sports (basketball, volleyball) allow a June 15th after sophomore year timeline, but in swimming a coach cannot call a student-athlete until after July 1 of your junior year. Swimmers can call a coach as a sophomore or a junior, but a coach cannot call a student-athlete. This move is supported to create more uniform rules across sports, rather than the patchwork calendar that exists now.
Proposal 13-3 would “remove restrictions governing modes and numerical limitations on recruiting communication,” which has received support from a “working group” of university presidents that has met effectively as a discussion committee to vet these ideas out, as well as the student-athlete advisory committee. This has been a big topic of debate, given the various new forms of communication that are available for communications between coaches and athletes. The opposite side of the coin is a fear that coaches could overwhelm student-athletes and distract them from focusing on their education and training.
Proposal 16-2 would be especially significant to athletes in Olympic sports, which would allow the schools, the USOC and other national governing bodies to provide actual and necessary expenses for a student-athlete to receive awards, meaning that college athletes would be able to be reimbursed either by the school or USA Swimming to travel, for example, to the Golden Goggles awards, as well as their parents and other relatives.
One more rule under the “16′s” involving money that has a big effect on swimming is rule 16-8, which would allow student-athletes to receive “necessary expenses and reasonable benefits” to pay for national team practice and competition, as well as allowing schools to pay for swimmers’ travel to national team tryouts and championship events. That could have huge, wide-reaching effects in swimming, and specifically would tilt the scales even further toward large, well-endowed programs. Given what we’ve seen in other ruling by the NCAA, especially in rulings allowing athletes in competition for championships to sit out of classes while training for championship events, this could have a huge, wide-ranging impact on allowing schools to pay for athletes’ travel to many different USA Swimming events, even if it’s not for purposes of representing the school.
