Eamonn Brennan has a nice summary of the latest "Coach X" article from ESPN Insider. I'm not a fan of ESPN, but I really enjoy the "Coach/Athlete X" articles they do and this one delivers as well. It talks about how hard it is to recruit now that they've limited recruiting times and if they really wanted to help they would actually change the recruiting rules so they more closely resembled the women's game.
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Right now we've got two evaluation periods in July that total 20 days, plus 161 days from October to March. And it's tough to get on the road during the academic year, when I'm focused on my team. I promised my recruits and their families that I'd help them mature, and I'm supposed to leave campus every free moment to see a high school game? So, basically we get a couple of days at the big sneaker camps in July or one or two visits to the kid's high school to see whether he'd be a good fit. That's where the NCAA has really hamstrung the coaches. The recruiting period gets shorter, you have only a finite period of time to see a kid and it forces coaches to go off recruiting lists. And people are shocked that there are more transfers than ever? We make mistakes.