Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
the the college can still contact the club coach or club representative about a prospective player. they just cant contact the player and the player cant contact the coach. the way i read it verbals can still be given out, and accepted by the player before the junior year, but your going out on a limb having no contact with the coach and praying that they are the best for your daughter without actually talking to them.




The new legislation does not say that club coaches and college coaches cannot talk. College and Club/HS coaches have always been permitted to speak to each other - that has not changed. However, what most people don't realize is that it is already impermissible for college coaches to use the club or HS coach as a "go-between" to conduct recruiting conversations with a prospect before September 1 of their junior year. So a college coach can speak to the club/HS coach to evaluate a sophomore prospect, but they cannot say "Have Susie Superstar be in my office next Friday at 10 am so we can make her a scholarship offer." That would constitute a recruiting conversation and is not permissible under current NCAA rules (in any sport, as per a 1994 NCAA Interpretation regarding Bylaw 13.1.3 and 13.4.1).

As a follow up, the IWLCA Legal Counsel recently received verbal confirmation of this interpretation from the NCAA, and have requested an updated official interpretation. We expect to receive that later this week or early next week and will circulate as appropriate. Bottom line is that a college coach can have evaluative discussions with HS or club coaches, but recruiting conversations intended to circumvent NCAA rules are PROHIBITED. Please be patient as we work with the NCAA to clarify the rules and produce educational materials for the lacrosse community. It is in everyone's best interests for college coaches, prospects and their families, high school coaches, and club coaches to all be on the same page in their understanding of the new rules and how the recruiting process will change, so you can be certain we will share any information we have with the larger lacrosse community.

If you have specific questions about the new legislation, please email me so that we can add them to the FAQ we are preparing. I can be reached at dcaroiwlca@gmail.com

Thank you.


Perhaps they should have thought about the ramifications and had clarification with respect to the legislation ready PRIOR to approving it? Also the switch and bait with the implementation date was very dirty and breeds distrust. They have left the 2020s in a terrible position if they have already verbally committed or were in serious talks with coaches. As someone mentioned earlier...the genie was already out of the bottle for that class. Those kids will be in 10th grade and 16 years old in 4 1/2 months- certainly old enough to decide upon college preferences or they should be talking to coaches/visiting schools to try to narrow things down. The Ivy's who the rule was really created for would have had a year of high school grades to gauge things and the kids would have had a season of high school play which was the complaint all along - that the early commits had not played a season of high school yet. This does nothing but cause more issues and takes the parents out of much of the process.