The NCAA Makes Another Recruiting Rule Change

Did we make it a week without a college football rule change? I’m not quite sure. Things are changing so rapidly in this sport, it’s tough to keep track.

Most of these rule changes are minor. You probably wouldn’t notice it, but there are people over at the Joe Craft Football Training Facility who are having to work around all of these new wrinkles.

Schools were previously limited to hosting a maximum of 70 official visitors per recruiting cycle. They no longer have to be selective when inviting players for all-expense paid trips to campus.

Following a request from the Football Oversight Committee, the NCAA is allowing schools to host an unlimited amount of official visitors. There are a lot of moving parts on rosters across the country. Waiving the official visit limit gives schools more flexibility.

Other Significant Recruiting Changes to College Football

There was a time when many recruits waited until December to take their official visits. That’s not going to be the case this year because of another rule change.

The Early Signing Period was previously on the Wednesday before the Christmas holiday. For most programs, it was one last big hurrah before a brief break ahead of a bowl game.

This year, it’s all gas no brakes once the regular season ends. Instead of conducting in-home visits for a few weeks, coaches will try to secure signatures via fax machine four days after the regular season ends on Dec. 4. Some schools will sign their high school classes before playing in conference championship games.

SEC schools thought they would be signing even larger classes on the first Wednesday of December. The House settlement is expected to change roster limits from 85 to 105 scholarship players next summer. The settlement remains tenuous, which is why the SEC shared with its schools earlier this week that they will keep scholarship roster limits at 85 for football in 2025.

Like most SEC schools, Kentucky had a plan for 85 or 105 scholarship players. Even so, things are changing rapidly in a short amount of time. You better be quick to adapt and react, or you’ll quickly fall behind the competition.

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