RTS has learned that the Division I Football Oversight Committee will recommend to the NCAA DI Management Council that the “Dead Period” that has lasted since March 2020 be lifted after May 31 in favor of a “Quiet Period”. A Quiet Period allows for institutes to host Prospective Student-Athletes on-campus and hold institutional camps. However, the move would still restrict coaches from going off-campus to recruit or work non-institutional camps. Although each sport can decide their own recruiting periods, the football and men and women’s basketball committees have steered the last eight extensions of the Dead Period and there is no indication that trend would change. Division I Softball Coaches have not been off their campuses recruiting since the fall of 2019 and a move into a Quiet Period could possibly wipeout another summer in the prime recruiting season for DI Coaches. RTS obtained a memo sent from the Intercollegiate Coach Association Coalition (ICAC) to the NCAA imploring them to lift all recruiting restrictions starting April 16, 2021 until “sports specific recruiting calendars are resumed.” The National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) which steers legislation on recruiting for the sport of softball, is a member of the coalition. Along with softball; representative organizations of soccer, volleyball, baseball, tennis, rifle, golf, field hockey, ice hockey, and swimming were all represented and supported the memo/request to resume regular recruiting activities.
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