Blueshirt rules

[joaqhawk]

Only because it seems to come up often, below are some rules I came across regarding when a kid has been "recruited" and when he hasn't been (i.e. when a kid is eligible to be a blueshirt).

"In NCAA-speak, recruited does not mean what it normally means. A prospect is recruited for financial aid purposes if one of the following things happens:

• A coach has in-person contact with the prospect off-campus;
• The prospect takes an official visit to the campus; or
• The school sent the prospect a National Letter of Intent or other written athletic scholarship offer.

Because of this definition, there’s a lot of recruiting that can happen without a prospect being considered “recruited”:

• Coaches can evaluate prospects any number of times.
• Coaches can call prospects any number of times.
• Prospects can take unlimited unofficial visits to the campus.
• Coaches can make verbal scholarship offers to prospects."

 

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