re: Jimmy Ott Quote on Kelly

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Damn talk about nonsense. HS recruiting ain’t the problem right now

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Evaluation of HS talent is 100% an issue if the guys we're recruiting on defense can't contribute for 3-4 years. Thats BS.

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Evaluation of HS talent is 100% an issue if the guys we're recruiting on defense can't contribute for 3-4 years. Thats BS.

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There is a true freshman starting on defense and five others playing rotation minutes right now.

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Can you give me a number of individual in state schools he is only allowed to visit?

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Recruiting rules are complicated. But looking at the D1 manual:

- There are basically three periods during which coaches are allowed to visit high schools: fall evaluation period (September-November), winter contact period (3 weeks in January), and spring contact period (6 weeks in April-May).
- During the fall evaluation period, the staff can visit schools but cannot make contact with the actual athletes. The staff is limited to one evaluation visit per high school, and 33 total evaluation days during the period.
- The contact periods are when the staff is allowed to visit recruits at their high schools/homes. The staff is limited to 140 total recruiting man-days (if two staff members make a visit it counts as two days).
- During each contact period, the staff is limited to a maximum of two visits per high school.
- If a staff member visits a high school during a contact period, it counts as a contact for all players at that school regardless of whether the coaches saw them.
- The head coach is only allowed to make 1 off-campus contact with each recruit (whether in-home or at high school) per year. (13.1.2.6.2)
- The head coach is not allowed to make visits to high schools or engage in any off-campus recruiting activities during the spring contact period. (13.1.2.6.3)

So basically, the head coach is only allowed to visit high schools during the fall evaluation period (which is during football season) and the 3-week winter contact period. But the head coach is only allowed one off-campus contact per recruit, so if he visits a high school during the winter contact period he loses the ability to do in-home visits with every player at that school (unless he does them the same day, I think).

During the spring contact period (when most off-campus recruiting occurs) the head coach is not allowed to participate in off-campus recruiting at all.

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There is a true freshman starting on defense

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Who?

Jones
Paez
Shand
Swinson
Weeks
Penn
Stamps
Gilbert
Ryan
Burns
Alexander

Are they good?

Kelly’s not involved in the details here

There was a time when he was out recruiting and doing the work but he’s not doing that anymore

He’s a good talker though

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So why do I see videos of Kirby or Sark or Saban landing helicopters at high schools before games?

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They do that 1 time a year and can't talk to the player

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Can you provide a link which lays out how many high school visits a head coach is allowed?

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1 in home visit per prospect

What I see are smaller , less athletic players compared to Alabama . They don’t look like the old time super speedy big guys . They are not coached on fundamentals , like gap discipline , or they physically get shoved out of their gap . Clock management and time out management is poor also .

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Evaluation of HS talent is 100% an issue if the guys we're recruiting on defense can't contribute for 3-4 years

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McBryde, Breaux, Dom, Keys, Woodland, and Reliford are all freshman contributors right now from last years class

Weeks, Womack, Stamps are starters from last years

I expect O would do better than that