williamspo said:
MslaCat, please explain - is this a "Spring Signing Period" for basketball?
If so, mens and womens?
High school and JC?
My reason for asking is that I understand Griz have a commitment from a California high school junior. Can those not be announced and become "official" until the Fall early signing period? I am confused.
Any news on Huse' recruiting?
There are two signing periods for basketball (and volleyball) One in the Fall (November) for a single week, and then one in the spring (Mid April to Mid May) in which you can sign a player to an official NCAA Letter of Intent (LOI). You can only sign seniors to a letter of intent. A player can commit at anytime they want to a program, but nothing is binding to them or the school, and any other programs can continue to recruit them until they sign a LOI during one of the signing period. Once a kid signs a LOI no other university can talk/recruit the kid. The University is bound by the conditions of the LOI for the kids entire freshman year. If the kid changes his mind he must get a release from the University. The one caveat to this is that after the Spring signing period end (which this years end on May 17th) a school can still sign a player for the next school year (again High school senior), but the commitment letter is not an official LOI, as such it only binds the school to the conditions written on the commitment letter. A kid can still changes his mind (until the day he enrolls at the school) and technically other schools could "steal" the guy from you if they wanted all without NCAA penalty.
In the case of JC they must follow the same recruiting periods, but they must be eligible to enroll the next academic year. In the JC world you have freshman qualifies and Non qualifiers. A qualifier is a guy who had the grades sufficient to go D-1 out of school but maybe did not have the D-1 offers i.e. late bloomers, under recruited players. A qualifier can transfer to a D-1 school after their freshman year or sophomore year, as long as his grades are in order. Non-Qualifiers are players that did not have the grades to go D-1 out of high school. Non Qualifiers must attend a jc for a two years and receive there associates degree before they can transfer.
In the case of the Griz and a junior high school player committing, the Griz will not be able to Officially sign him until this November.
As far as a school announcing a player intent to come to it's school a school/university can not officially announce commitment ever. They can only put out an announcement once they get the official signed LOI on file at the university, or the kid officially enrolls in classes (in the case of walk-ons or late signies). That said there is nothing preventing the kid from announcing the commitment or signing on his own.
Men's and women's signing period are exactly the same, the major difference between the two is that the women are limited to 15 scholarships and the men to 13 max scholarships.
The spring signing period was the original signing period, the NCAA added the fall period about 20 years back to give the athletes an opportunity to sign and get the process over with.
Clear as mud!!?? There will be a quiz tomorrow.
