Recruiting: Lost in the "fundraising" shuffle?

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Serious question: does this rule (or a separate rule) apply to visiting a recruit/commit at their school?

No. I believe the NCAA put limits on in home visits to give families some peace and quit. Keeps coaches from stopping by a recruits home twice a day and 3 times on Sunday. There are dead periods when a coach cannot have any contact with a recruit but it does not deny a coach the ability to sit in the stands and watch a kid play. If you recall, Urban Meyer go. Into trouble for "bumping into" a Wisconsin recruit during a dead period. Bret Bielema turned him in for it. It's one of the scams coaches use to sidestep the dead period rules. Urban Meyer tells the high school coach that he will be at the game, the high school coach asks him to come down after the game, Urban says yes, comes down when the players are shaking hands and "oops, excuse me, Mr 5* prospect. I didnt mean to bump into you here".

 

[HawkWT]

No. I believe the NCAA put limits on in home visits to give families some peace and quit. Keeps coaches from stopping by a recruits home twice a day and 3 times on Sunday. There are dead periods when a coach cannot have any contact with a recruit but it does not deny a coach the ability to sit in the stands and watch a kid play. If you recall, Urban Meyer go. Into trouble for "bumping into" a Wisconsin recruit during a dead period. Bret Bielema turned him in for it. It's one of the scams coaches use to sidestep the dead period rules. Urban Meyer tells the high school coach that he will be at the game, the high school coach asks him to come down after the game, Urban says yes, comes down when the players are shaking hands and "oops, excuse me, Mr 5* prospect. I didnt mean to bump into you here".

Perfect, thank you.

 

[Knight78]

Was i insinuating that Kirk was possibly not making the recruiting effort he had in earlier years, yes... absolutely. Has he made the maximum visits? I will take your word for it.
I will take him admitting his effort has slipped in an impromptu news conference, as confirmation for the recent poor recruiting.
A lot of it was timing, but it still was ironic to see Kirk all over the recruiting trail the week after admitting he needed to do a better job.

So before that, do you think he wasn't "on the recruiting trail"? Or do you think it just wasn't publicized as much? Personally, I think it just wasn't publicized as much.

 

[HomerChampless]

Some of your list is partially true. The one thing I would think would get more big name recruits yet rarely seems to have is he puts guys in the NFL... Iowa has sent way more then their fair share to the league. To me that would trump the exciting style of play and other stuff. Your goal when going to college is to have a job when you leave there right? Well what better job is there then the NFL and Ferentz has done as good of a job at that as anyone hard to take that away from him...

If 'KF' puts so many players in the NFL, why are his teams so mediocre?

 

[OUTofTOWNHAWK]

The fact that kirk has had so many NFL players really asks the question of why cant that translate into wins?