The role of the head high school football coach is vital to recruiting, but with more outside forces than ever involved it’s ever evolving.
Several recruiting rule changes are in the works, including a new official visit period and an early National Signing Day. But what are the changes that high school coaches would like to see? We surveyed some of the country’s most notable head coaches to get their opinions on what they would like to see changed about the process.
Here's a portion of the story:
“I think a major problem that is faced by the players and the high school coaches today are the non-committable offers that college coaches throw out to players. It's a confusing process enough for a 17-, 18-year-old high school student, and then when you throw these type of offers around it makes the process worse on our end. I'm not sure what the best solution is, maybe something like making an offer binding for the university. This would make colleges slow down the process and evaluate everything better, lead to better relationships which would help all the decommitting and colleges pulling offers, but also make it so that a player knows when he gets that offer it is a true offer.” – Chip Walker, Newnan, Ga.
“We need to have a early signing period; the first Wednesday in August, with official visits being permitted from March 15 until April 15. Then start back with official visits June 1 until June 15. This would help the high school coach tremendously and the four- and five-star players could concentrate on playing football for their schools.” – Rush Propst, Colquitt County (Ga.)
You can read the complete article here.
Several recruiting rule changes are in the works, including a new official visit period and an early National Signing Day. But what are the changes that high school coaches would like to see? We surveyed some of the country’s most notable head coaches to get their opinions on what they would like to see changed about the process.
Here's a portion of the story:
“I think a major problem that is faced by the players and the high school coaches today are the non-committable offers that college coaches throw out to players. It's a confusing process enough for a 17-, 18-year-old high school student, and then when you throw these type of offers around it makes the process worse on our end. I'm not sure what the best solution is, maybe something like making an offer binding for the university. This would make colleges slow down the process and evaluate everything better, lead to better relationships which would help all the decommitting and colleges pulling offers, but also make it so that a player knows when he gets that offer it is a true offer.” – Chip Walker, Newnan, Ga.
“We need to have a early signing period; the first Wednesday in August, with official visits being permitted from March 15 until April 15. Then start back with official visits June 1 until June 15. This would help the high school coach tremendously and the four- and five-star players could concentrate on playing football for their schools.” – Rush Propst, Colquitt County (Ga.)
You can read the complete article here.
