[quote=Anonymous]The coaches have NO vote on this. This is an NCAA issue and vote. Both men's and women's lacrosse have lobbied to maintain their rules as they stand now. Given their success, they are NOT likely to be reversed or changed based on new 'overall' proposal for other 'olympic' and 'non-revenue' sports.
And as an FYI, softball has lobbied the NCAA to do exactly what lacrosse has done. Baseball has significant interest as well.
Correct. Lacrosse rules aren't changing. No way. No how. They didn't go through all that to change the rules a year later.
The NCAA is going to unify all the dates for all sports. Sept. 1 soph year.
Wrong. They changed the dates for everyone to junior year. See the link I posted. Decision was made a month ago.
The following is directly from that report that you posted, so it is not in stone, and will be evaluated. The current rumor is that communication will be allowed sept 1 of Soph year, and verbal offers/commitments cannot be made until Sept 1 of Junior year. This way students will know which schools are interested and have a chance to unofficially visit campuses, thus eliminating the Fall rush and students forgoing their junior year of fall sports. This will be taken up at the April meeting as does most new legislation that go into effect for the next year (August 1 is usually the effective date of new legislation). January meeting is used for clarification and tweaks of changes made in previous April meeting.
Do you even know what phase II is? Get off your high horse, no one likes a know it all, especially when they don't fully read the literature they are quoting.
3) The Student-Athlete Experience Committee will continue its review of early recruiting issues during the next two years. Phase IB of the review will include the topics of recruiting communications and offers of aid. Legislative concepts from Phase IB are expected to be introduced into the 2018-19 legislative cycle. Phase II of the review will include contacts, evaluations, recruiting calendars, tryouts and camps and clinics. Phase II legislative concepts will be introduced into the 2019-20 legislative cycle.
