NCAA Recruiting Calendars

NCAA Recruiting Calendars

The NCAA basketball and football recruiting calendars dictate when coaches may evaluate and contact prospective student athletes. For more specific information covering exceptions such as mid-year enrollees, junior college players, and different types of evaluations, please see the NCAA’s official list of recruting dates.

Definitions:

Contact Period: The time when a college coach may have in-person contact with a prospective student-athlete and the prospect’s parents on or off the college’s campus. The coach may also watch the prospective student-athlete play or visit his or her high school. The prospect and the parents may visit a college campus, and the coach may write and telephone during this period.

Evaluation Period: The time a college coach may watch a prospective student-athlete play or visit the high school but cannot have any in-person conversations with the possible recruit or the parents off the college’s campus. The prospective student-athlete and the parents can visit a college campus during this period and a coach may call or write during this period.

Quiet Period: A time when the college may not have any in-person talk with the prospective student-athlete or the parents off the college’s campus. The coach may not watch the prospect play or practice.The prospective student-athlete can visit college campuses during this time and a coach may write or telephone.

Dead Period: A time when the college coach may not have any in-person contact with the prospective student-athlete or the prospect’s parents at any time. The coach may write and telephone during this time.

Basketball Recruiting Calendar

Football Recruiting Calendar