And they all rejoiced.
It looks like the NCAA is finally going to end the recruiting dead period that was has been imposed for over a year. Things were first put on the shelf back on March 13, just as the coronavirus was taking hold and the sporting world ground to a halt.
According to Nicole Auerbach of The Athletic, the vote by the NCAA’s Division I Council has already occurred to lift the dead period, but it won’t be announced until the end of the meetings on Thursday. The current timeline runs through May 31, and it is expected that high school prospects will be able to take official and unofficial visits with face-to-face contact with coaches beginning on June 1.
For Ohio State, there is one big fish in particular that it would love to get to campus, and that is five-star defensive end J.T. Tuimoloau out of Washington State. You know it well by now, but he’s a consensus top-three prospect in the 2021 class but remains uncommitted because of his desire to visit Ohio State and other places. You can bet that OSU will try to roll out the red carpet for him sometime quickly after the dead period is lifted.
The NCAA's Division I Council has approved a return to normal recruiting as of June 1, ending the dead period, source tells @TheAthletic, but this isn't officially official until end of Thursday's meeting.
More on what else will be decided today/tmrw: https://t.co/RVKLOHco9Z
— Nicole Auerbach 😷 (@NicoleAuerbach) April 14, 2021
It should be interesting to see how the Buckeye recruiting staff handles what could be a flood of potential visitors this spring and summer. It will be an unprecedented volume of recruits most likely all while the program is going through summer conditioning and ramping up for the start of fall camp.
Let the fun begin.
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