How new college football recruiting rules could change the game

The rules on college football recruiting could be drastically changing. According to this report by Mitch Sherman of ESPN, if passed, the new rules would allow for substantially more contact between coaches and recruits. Let's go through the proposed items and discuss the potential impact of each. The universal start date would be moved up to July 1 before a prospect's junior year. Good call. I argued for a similar measure in this feature piece from early August. All sorts of contact was already...