The regular season is in the books, and less than 48 hours after the conclusion of Saturday's game, the Pitt coaches will be on the road to start the crucial two-month final stretch of recruiting for the 2017 class.
Pat Narduzzi and his staff will spend the next two weeks visiting recruits at their homes and schools in what's known in recruiting as the "contact period." Before we get into the recruits who will get visits from the staff, here's a look at what the next two months will bring.
During the contact period, the coaches can have in-person contact with a recruit on or off campus. On-campus visits are unlimited; off-campus visits are limited to one day per week. So the coaches can visit a recruit at his school and at his home one day this week (a visit counts as a full day, so the coaches can actually be around the recruit multiple times in a single day).
In total, the coaches can have an off-campus visit with each recruit six times between now and Signing Day on Feb. 1, although the head coach can only have one off-campus visit with each prospect.
The December contact period runs through Dec. 11, at which point a dead period begins; no in-person contact is permitted during the dead period, so after Dec. 11, the coaches and recruits can only communicate electronically or over the phone.
The January contact period begins on Thursday, Jan. 12, and runs through Sunday, Jan. 29. So the coaches have two weeks in December (this week and next week) and then two weeks plus a couple days in January for off-campus visits.
If they maximize the available visits, the Pitt staff could get all six visits in with a recruit, since they could get a visit each of the next two weeks and throw in a third visit on Sunday, Dec. 11, since that’s still the contact period. Then they could use a in the half-week that starts Thursday, Jan. 12, and two more in the weeks that follow for a total of six.
It remains to be seen how many recruits will get the full complement of six visits. In between those weeks of off-campus visits, though, the staff will have prospects on campus for official visits, and those weekends are starting to shape up. More on that in a second.
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Pat Narduzzi and his staff will spend the next two weeks visiting recruits at their homes and schools in what's known in recruiting as the "contact period." Before we get into the recruits who will get visits from the staff, here's a look at what the next two months will bring.
During the contact period, the coaches can have in-person contact with a recruit on or off campus. On-campus visits are unlimited; off-campus visits are limited to one day per week. So the coaches can visit a recruit at his school and at his home one day this week (a visit counts as a full day, so the coaches can actually be around the recruit multiple times in a single day).
In total, the coaches can have an off-campus visit with each recruit six times between now and Signing Day on Feb. 1, although the head coach can only have one off-campus visit with each prospect.
The December contact period runs through Dec. 11, at which point a dead period begins; no in-person contact is permitted during the dead period, so after Dec. 11, the coaches and recruits can only communicate electronically or over the phone.
The January contact period begins on Thursday, Jan. 12, and runs through Sunday, Jan. 29. So the coaches have two weeks in December (this week and next week) and then two weeks plus a couple days in January for off-campus visits.
If they maximize the available visits, the Pitt staff could get all six visits in with a recruit, since they could get a visit each of the next two weeks and throw in a third visit on Sunday, Dec. 11, since that’s still the contact period. Then they could use a in the half-week that starts Thursday, Jan. 12, and two more in the weeks that follow for a total of six.
It remains to be seen how many recruits will get the full complement of six visits. In between those weeks of off-campus visits, though, the staff will have prospects on campus for official visits, and those weekends are starting to shape up. More on that in a second.
Continued in the next post
