@Prepster posted:From ncaa.org:
"During a dead period a college coach may not have face-to-face contact with college-bound student-athletes or their parents, and may not watch student-athletes compete or visit their high schools. Coaches may write and telephone student-athletes or their parents during a dead period."
If a school is a member institution, regardless of division, this is the definition of "dead period."
NCAA is edging it's way toward becoming a dead entity. Emmert canceling Fall Championships is not a move in the right direction. Football isn't his to cancel, but it makes the SEC, ACC, and B12 look bad if football participates in a championship and the other sports don't. They want a championship and they don't want to look bad. These conferences are getting closer to, "NCAA you have failed us too many times."