NCAA Lifts Dead Period - Unofficial Visits

Recruits will finally get to visit college campuses once again starting June 1st.

Per Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports, the NCAA announced that the recruiting dead period, which began last year due to COVID-19 and kept on getting extended for months at a time, will end on the first day of June.

“The NCAA Council this week is expected to set an end date of June 1 for the long-standing recruiting dead period, multiple sources told CBS Sports,” Dodd wrote. “The dead period was imposed in March 2020 after COVID-19 shut down college sports. It was extended eight times over the past year as the global pandemic raged, the last time in February.

“With widespread distribution of the coronavirus vaccine, it has become easier to envision more in-person contact, including football camps and official visits, beginning in June. For more than a year, college football coaches have been able to do little more in recruiting than hold Zoom calls with prospects.”

Due to the dead period, many recruits have yet to visit their top schools and have only seen the campus and athletic facilities through virtual visits online.

After nearly 15 months, the recruiting dead period will finally come to an end.

The NCAA Division I Council on Thursday announced all sports will return to their regular recruiting calendars starting on June 1.