Kolek planning to go pro
recruit over is the wrong term.......you mean if a coach runs a guy off. Any player could say he was recruited over and would if that was the criteria to not have to sit out.
Third, if the school recruits "over" the player, he can leave and play immediately.
Recruiting over means in this context a player who loses his scholarship because a coach needs it for someone else. Assume, for example, someone loses a scholarship because Quentin Grimes comes to Marquette. They should not be penalized.
But how do you really determine that? If Grimes comes and (just for example) Cheatham leaves, does that mean Haani was recruited over? So now the NCAA has to make the determination on the value discrepancy between a senior with starting experience and an unproven freshman? Or is it any time a school that is full on scholarships has a transfer out? Seems like it would be tough to really determine who was recruited over without lending even more credence to recruiting ranking sites.
You’d have to have a coach sign some type of document stating that the university would not be renewing the player’s scholarship in favor of the new recruit. Of course that would require coaches not being shady shady people
Which also opens up the potential for abuse. A coach could just write such a letter any time they want to move a player along.
Except the NCAA and its members insist players are students, not employees.
What we're really saying here is that sometimes - like when it comes to paying athletes and providing them with protections such as workers comp - they're students. And other times - like when enforcing "non-compete agreements" and other restrictions - it's OK to treat them like employees.Whichever is most beneficial to the institution.
Coaches should have to sit out a year if they want to change jobs.