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Reply to ""Signee", "Commit" for walk-on?"

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Originally posted by MTH:
This is a rule that is constantly circumvented. Colleges do not make official announcements of "commitments." However, many of them will immediately call some friend who does a radio show or runs a recruiting website and tell them about it. They want the word to get out so other teams will back off.

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Originally posted by 3FingeredGlove:
Here's the D1/D2 rule:
13.10.2 Comments Before Signing. Before the signing of a prospective student-athlete to a National Letter of Intent or an institution’s written offer of admission and/or financial aid, a member institution may comment publicly only to the extent of confirming its recruitment of the prospective student-athlete.

In principle, a player need only have received and somehow signed an offer of admission. Then the college could comment on his signing. For example a player could apply for early admission under a program that requires that he attend the school if admitted. So there would be an actual signature, and the school could announce him as a recruit, in spite of no financial offer.

I suppose that it is rare that a college would announce (in November) such a player as a signed recruit, but it could be done.

A financial offer doesn't have to be part of the NLI program, but it almost always is.




My nephew committed to a school and was not offered an NLI but was admitted into the school and already registered when the school announced his commitment. The stipulation was that he had to have registered for the fall semester.
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