In one succinct sentence, here’s why college football and the NCAA have something to worry about with the latest hot development in the world of high school football recruiting:
With Nike and Under Armour sponsoring teams and ESPNU providing coverage, seven-on-seven football, which is played with no helmets, pads or linemen, has grown quickly in the past three years.
Nice partners you got there, college football. Here’s what they’re empowering:
… A scene on the second day of the tryout offered a window into seven-on-seven’s power. One of Goetz’s assistants, Jon Drummond, put Miramar High cornerback Tracy Howard on the phone with assistant coaches at Miami and Florida. Howard is a junior, so college coaches cannot call him. But it is legal for Drummond to connect coaches with Howard, who is considered the country’s top cornerback prospect.
Asked if college coaches needed to court their seven-on-seven counterparts the way they talked to high school coaches, Drummond said, “They better.”
“I think it’s just as important as high school football,” Drummond said of seven-on-seven. “It makes recruiting easier. You don’t have to search for coaches; they search for you.”
Let your ringers do the talking.
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Yea the same guys that gave you AAU basketball have now figured out how to work a new scam. Easy fix for the NCAA, anybody that plays in a none academic league is ruled ineligible to play in Div I. At least AAU basketball is real basketball while 7-on-7 is just a prolonged tryout.
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Yep. The eligibility strike force will have time to figure that out. By the time they know who is participating, the kid will be out of eligibility.
Too bad that’s the answer.
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That will never work. To implement it, you would disqualify many small sport athletes because they participated in the Olympics, golfers that played in summer tournaments, USGA events, etc., equestrian events, tennis tournaments, fall league baseball, little league, etc.
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