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Bill Clark mention. Proposed rule seems a bit extreme/excessive...

http://footballscoop.com/news/ncaa-propo...king-move/

"In plain English: if a college program is to hire a high school coach it must immediately hire him to an on-field position, or it can not have recruited a player from that high school for two years prior to hiring the coach and must also refrain from recruiting players from said high school for another two years after his employment. That’s an entire cycle of high school players a college program would have to bar itself from in order to hire a single coach."

if "Lord Saban" doesn't want it...it won't happen

I'm not even sure that would stand up in court if challenged. Seems like restraint of trade issue

(04-12-2017 01:25 PM)biglizard Wrote:  I'm not even sure that would stand up in court if challenged. Seems like restraint of trade issue

It sounds basically like a non-compete clause.

The idea behind the rule is very good. However, it isn't fair to high school players who might want to play for a particular school regardless of whether they have hired his high school coach.

Sounds like maybe a rule on the book that will never be enforced unless they want to use it specifically to go after someone.

(04-12-2017 01:39 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(04-12-2017 01:25 PM)biglizard Wrote:  I'm not even sure that would stand up in court if challenged. Seems like restraint of trade issue

It sounds basically like a non-compete clause.

The idea behind the rule is very good. However, it isn't fair to high school players who might want to play for a particular school regardless of whether they have hired his high school coach.

Sounds like maybe a rule on the book that will never be enforced unless they want to use it specifically to go after someone.

For professionals in the state of Alabama non competes are null and void. It's considered a restraint of trade. They're not worth the paper they're written on.