The NCAA has made the decision to stop all on-campus recruiting and off-campus recruiting until at least April 15th in a continued global effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Nearly all sports-related activities on all campuses have now come to a halt in the last two days.
This of course not only affects the institutions who are recruiting athletes, but the athletes trying to land life-changing scholarships. This news comes after many national recruiting camps for college sports had been cancelled yesterday and into today. This is an uncertain time for many, and the question to truly ask is not when recruiting will pick back up, but when students in general, athletes and non-athletes, will be back on campus.
The Big Ten Conference has already halted all team activities until at least April 6th, but in the case of the University of Wisconsin the earliest classes could start in-person would be April 10th. Obviously, that is a very fluid date given the rapidly changing nature of the virus and the protocol being put in place to slow the spread. While some recruits will never get the chance at a full recruiting cycle, hopefully many young athletes find their homes for the next four or more years in the midst of all the chaos.