Div III

Unless something has been changed that I am unaware of they still have to wait to July 1 after your junior year---you can call them but they cannot call you

We went through this last year. We got our first call from a D3 coach the evening of the last day of school in June between his junior/senior year.

I think the rule is that they can make a call during the junior year, but they can't call weekly until after the school year is over for the student in question.

I believe that the rules have changed effective this year. All coaches are allowed to call 1 time in the month of March, and they can visit the High School campus 1 time in the month of April for Juniors, and after July 1st can call anytime.

I heard from someone yesterday the new rule of March 1st as well for D3 coaches as dadchs20 says. I haven't checked ncaa.org yet to confirm, but I know the information will just leap right off the page

Here is the official guidance from the NCAA.ORG manual

13.1.3. Telephone calls to prospects.
para 13.1.3.1. - Time period for Telephone calls - General Rule. "In all sports other than football, one telephone call to a prospect or a prospect's relatives or legal guardians may be made during March of the prospect's junior year in high school."

13.1.1. Contactable Prospects.
para 13.1.1.1. High School Prospects. "In all sports other than football, it is permissible to make one in-person, off-campus recruiting contact with a prospect or a prospect's relatives or legal guardians on the prospect's high-school campus during April of the prospect's junior year in high school (subject to applicable recruiting calendar restrictions)."

Hope this helps.

They certainly made the change without much fanfare and publicity--the change had been on the table for awhile now

dad--thanx for the post and update

dadchs20

That text you posted I believe is from the NCAA D1 manual, not the D3 manual. I just checked both and found the exact text you posted under the right numbers only in the D1 manual.

The D3 manual says this below for contacts, but as no surprise to me I cannot even find the section that says when college coaches can call prospects. Its like its missing from the document entirely???

13.01.5 Time Periods for Contacts. In-person, off-campus contacts with a prospect or a prospect’s relatives or legal guardian(s) may not be made until the prospect has completed the junior year in high school.


This could be outdated though, and like I said, someone in the know told me the D3 contact rules had recently changed. They also said many coaches were not even aware of the change, whatever that means.

ghouse, you are correct. I got it from the D1 manual. I assumed, wrongly, that it would be the same for DII and DIII. I will go back and do some more research. If I find anything, I will update here.

Here are the links to the NCAA 2004-2005 Manuals for each division. Each manual has a Section for Bylaw, Article 13-Recruiting with all the details. The manuals are 300+ pages ..... a definite cure for insomnia!

Div. III
Div. II
Div. I

That's ok, I just knew the text you posted look familiar because I had to update that very information for my site recently, so I checked both manuals.

I gave up trying to contact the NCAA long ago, they either don't answer the phone or are angry when they do, so I emailed a local D3 coach to ask them.

Jeez, go through these manuals and you don't need a sleeping pill. Too funny. Anyway, the gist of what I have read is, Div. 1 as I posted above. Div II is contact and phone calls after June 15th preceeding their senior year. And, Div III is after their Junior Year is completed. So, there you have it, clear as mud.

Wow, I got a response back from a D3 coach as follows...

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There haven't been any changes to the DIII contact rules recently and the reason you couldn't find anything in the manual is because DIII coaches are allowed to contact prospects via phone at any time.
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There is no way this was the rule a year or two ago, so I have no idea when it changed. It used to be something like phone calls were allowed at completion of junior year.

I checked the College bound student athlete manual
http://www.ncaa.org/library/general/cbsa/2004-05/2004-05_cbsa.pdf

and sure enough on page 29 it says there are no restrictions as to how many calls can be placed or when they can be made.

Perhaps they assume no D3 program has the money or desire to harrass an athlete with phone calls.