OT: College Hockey finally gets their crap together with recruiting. FINALLY!

[OmniscientFan]

For years the single biggest problem with college hockey pertaining to recruiting was the notion that a prospective recruit could verbally commit to College hockey program as young as 12 years old. Shot my son just finished his Bantam major season (Tier 1) and two of his teammates had already verbally committed to D1 schools. Mind you.... my son is in 8th grade.

The likelihood of a kid fulfilling that verbal commitment is less than 15% when committing so early but College Hockey coaches basically felt they had no choice because of the Canadian draft (the WHL Draft occurs at ages 14/15 and the OHL and QMJHL occur at ages 15/16) if they wanted that player to stay in the NCAA system.

A good article explaining all of this: https://www.twincities.com/2017/09/...-debate-after-13-year-old-commits-to-gophers/

But all that came to an end very recently with sweeping changes for College Recruiting and Timelines: https://mihockey.com/2019/04/ncaa-d...M2Pwo6s2bdsdlfcl8nPQHpCJ3GJ9sujcAi9ldZ_A6Jwyw

I applaud the NCAA for finally putting kids first no matter what the cost (missing out on them for the Canadian draft).

 

[interrobang]

It's just as bad in lacrosse and softball and probably some of the other smaller sports.

But don't give the NCAA-proper any credit. This one came from the NCAA's student-athlete committee.

 

[TheGLOV]

For years the single biggest problem with college hockey pertaining to recruiting was the notion that a prospective recruit could verbally commit to College hockey program as young as 12 years old. Shot my son just finished his Bantam major season (Tier 1) and two of his teammates had already verbally committed to D1 schools. Mind you.... my son is in 8th grade.

The likelihood of a kid fulfilling that verbal commitment is less than 15% when committing so early but College Hockey coaches basically felt they had no choice because of the Canadian draft (the WHL Draft occurs at ages 14/15 and the OHL and QMJHL occur at ages 15/16) if they wanted that player to stay in the NCAA system.

A good article explaining all of this: https://www.twincities.com/2017/09/...-debate-after-13-year-old-commits-to-gophers/

But all that came to an end very recently with sweeping changes for College Recruiting and Timelines: https://mihockey.com/2019/04/ncaa-d...M2Pwo6s2bdsdlfcl8nPQHpCJ3GJ9sujcAi9ldZ_A6Jwyw

I applaud the NCAA for finally putting kids first no matter what the cost (missing out on them for the Canadian draft).

Can your son my for my Pittsburgh Penguins please?

We could use the help!!

A "YOUTH" movement is in the cards.