NCAA Panel Opposes Effort to Relax Telephone Recruiting Rule

The NCAA’s Division I Student Athlete Advisory Committee has announced that it opposes a proposal that would lift certain restrictions on the phone calls coaches make to recruits. The proposal would allow coaches to make unlimited phone calls to prospective athletes during a sport’s “contact period.” The advisory panel contends that relaxing the rules would be intrusive to recruits, because it would allow coaches in many sports to contact them daily during wide-open contact periods. Compliance officials at many colleges, however, have supported the measure, which comes up for a vote at the association’s annual convention next month.