Several new NCAA rules have been passed or proposed recently. Here are my thoughts on a few of them:
Phone Call Sensibleness: The NCAA is on the way to getting something right through a
proposal to allow unlimited phone calls to recruits during contact periods. I have long been a vocal opponent of the phone call restrictions on college coaches in recruiting.
While well-intentioned, the rule prohibits coaches from normal contact with recruits while the rest of the free world gets unfettered access to them. The unintended consequences from the rule swamped its good intentions, by making those outside of the NCAA's reach more powerful and criminalizing normal communication.
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Jay Bilas
