As the coronavirus outbreak continues to rage across the country, its impact on college sports continues as well. On Thursday, the NCAA voted to extend the recruiting dead period through August 31.
The decision doesn't come as much of a surprise as cases spike in several states and after the Council decided to delay its vote on the addition of new evaluation periods in August and September. As a result, all recruiting will remain limited to phone calls and virtual meetings and the hope for any evaluation periods dwindles. It remains possible that an evaluation period or two get added in September, but things don't seem to be trending in the right direction for that to happen.
The Basketball Oversight Committee did not make any changes to the previously agreed upon summer access model, which allows programs to begin countable instruction hours on July 20.
As we've noted previously, Villanova is solidly positioned to handle the lack of evaluation periods with redshirt Eric Dixon and transfer Caleb Daniels serving as a de facto 2020 class and early work Nova was able to put in on the 2021 class as a result of eschewing a traditional class in 2020. Villanova's 2021 class is currently ranked third in the country with the commitments of Nnanna Njoku and Trey Patterson while the Cats are by all accounts in good position with several other key targets. While evaluation periods would certainly be helpful, it should have less of an impact on Nova than on some other programs.
The decision doesn't come as much of a surprise as cases spike in several states and after the Council decided to delay its vote on the addition of new evaluation periods in August and September. As a result, all recruiting will remain limited to phone calls and virtual meetings and the hope for any evaluation periods dwindles. It remains possible that an evaluation period or two get added in September, but things don't seem to be trending in the right direction for that to happen.
The Basketball Oversight Committee did not make any changes to the previously agreed upon summer access model, which allows programs to begin countable instruction hours on July 20.
As we've noted previously, Villanova is solidly positioned to handle the lack of evaluation periods with redshirt Eric Dixon and transfer Caleb Daniels serving as a de facto 2020 class and early work Nova was able to put in on the 2021 class as a result of eschewing a traditional class in 2020. Villanova's 2021 class is currently ranked third in the country with the commitments of Nnanna Njoku and Trey Patterson while the Cats are by all accounts in good position with several other key targets. While evaluation periods would certainly be helpful, it should have less of an impact on Nova than on some other programs.