Everyone has a different opinion, a reason to approve of or dislike one of the NCAA’s latest wrinkles in the football recruiting process: the spring early official visit period. It began April 1 and runs through June 24, and it offers high school prospects a window before their senior year to take expense-paid visits to campus.
There’s Bishop Miege coach Jon Holmes, who likes that if a recruit “is ready to speed up the decision-making process and wants to try to do it early ... he can.”
There’s Todd Berry, the executive director of the American Football Coaches Association, who believes the period has “given more clarity to students whether a university has interest in them or not.