Jason Svoboda
10-21-2010, 12:47 AM
The Conference Commissioners Association voted 31-0 at their fall meeting last month in Chicago to recommend eliminating July men's basketball recruiting beginning in 2012 to the the Division I NCAA Board of Directors, sources with direct knowledge of the meeting told ESPN.com.
According to another source, the Division I board will meet on Oct. 28 and has a number of options: accept the recommendation and implement it immediately or delay the implementation; introduce new legislation and send it through the normal governance structure; direct a study of options or do not act on the recommendation.
According to the meeting's minutes, the recommendation said the new recruiting model would not include a summer recruiting period for July 2012, ESPN.com learned. All 31 Division I commissioners were in attendance and voted in favor of the proposal.
Coaches are allowed to evaluate recruits for two 10-day periods in July, traversing the country from events in Akron, Ohio, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, north of Dallas, Augusta, S.C., Orlando, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, among many others. The NCAA's men's basketball focus group has been monitoring summer recruiting, looking for improvements as well as trying to eliminate violations during the period.
The CCA vote, which was not made public at the time of the meetings at Big Ten headquarters, sent shockwaves through the National Association of Basketball Coaches Association.
On Tuesday, an e-mail that ESPN.com obtained, was marked: "URGENT – Regarding Elimination of July Evaluation Period" was sent to all Division I coaches by Michigan State coach Tom Izzo, the current NABC president, NABC executive Jim Haney and deputy executive director Reggie Minton.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=5709358
According to another source, the Division I board will meet on Oct. 28 and has a number of options: accept the recommendation and implement it immediately or delay the implementation; introduce new legislation and send it through the normal governance structure; direct a study of options or do not act on the recommendation.
According to the meeting's minutes, the recommendation said the new recruiting model would not include a summer recruiting period for July 2012, ESPN.com learned. All 31 Division I commissioners were in attendance and voted in favor of the proposal.
Coaches are allowed to evaluate recruits for two 10-day periods in July, traversing the country from events in Akron, Ohio, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, north of Dallas, Augusta, S.C., Orlando, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, among many others. The NCAA's men's basketball focus group has been monitoring summer recruiting, looking for improvements as well as trying to eliminate violations during the period.
The CCA vote, which was not made public at the time of the meetings at Big Ten headquarters, sent shockwaves through the National Association of Basketball Coaches Association.
On Tuesday, an e-mail that ESPN.com obtained, was marked: "URGENT – Regarding Elimination of July Evaluation Period" was sent to all Division I coaches by Michigan State coach Tom Izzo, the current NABC president, NABC executive Jim Haney and deputy executive director Reggie Minton.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=5709358