College Summer League Coaching Restrictions

This rule has been around awhile. It definitely handicaps summer league coaches/GM's when it comes to recruiting players. What you may see is more summer league league teams hiring JUCO assistants (or retired college/pro guys) as their coaches so they can recruit JUCO players. Forest City in the CPL was able to pick up several valuable JUCO players last summer because none of their coaches were affected by this rule. Columbia in the CPL has a retired pro guy as their coach this summer and is already picking up JUCO players. Florence originally hired a JUCO guy to be their head coach but lost him to MLB.

Summer teams that want to be competitive have to at least consider going with a JUCO staff.

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Originally posted by hokieone:
Now that I'm learning the ropes of summer league rules, I've learned of this rule, which apparently is being "emphasized" now by the NCAA: If a summer wooden bat college league team has a D I, II, or III coach on its staff, head coach or assistant, that summer team can sign no JUCO players. Apparently the NCAA felt too much recruiting was going on by summer league coaches.

I understand the rule but it seems like typical NCAA overkill. Simply prohibiting signing with the school of a summer league coach would do it, but as it is, NCAA assistant coaches' summer job opportunities will diminish, or placing JUCO's will be more difficult.

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Forest City in the CPL was able to pick up several valuable JUCO players last summer because none of their coaches were affected by this rule.

Forect City was able to add a few JUCO players to their roster during the early season because Coach Hayes had resigned from his position at Indiana (D1). I believe he is now at Limestone. If he had stayed on at Indiana during the summer, he would not have been able to get great players like Marty Gant and aa few others.

When the season started, Coach Hayes was listed as the Volunteer Assistant with Indiana.