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Message: [QUOTE="stamfordhusky, post: 3355021, member: 649"] Recruiting in many sports has been out of control, more so than basketball, as players have committed earlier and earlier because they feared that all available scholarships would be gone. In men's lacrosse, for example, many players were committing early in their freshman year of high school and almost all by their sophomore year. Coaches didn't like the whole system, but they were compelled to go along or they would find very few recruits available later on. So the coaches finally proposed a rule change where coaches and players can have no contact whatsoever until September 1st of the athlete's junior year. It was approved by the vote of the NCAA members and is now the law. Big improvement. Previously many lax players committed to schools that ended up not being a good fit, either academically or athletically. In a number of cases, the coach would later either convince the player to decommit - since he was apparently not good enough to ever see playing time - or actually just yank the scholarship offer. And a number of players, who got better relative to the others in their class, abandoned their original school (a school like Villanova or Bucknell or a NESCA) to sign on with Duke, JHU, UNC, etc or to go to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton. [/QUOTE]