Updated April 2, 2018 by StLouHoo
The off-season recruiting cycle can be a confusing one, with multiple AAU circuits to track, a variety of all-star events and camps that recruits attend, and different periods of allowed or restricted college/player contact per the NCAA. We've put together this quick calendar to cover the April through August cycle, covering the big shoe circuit events and camps of note, as well as the NCAA-imposed open/dead/quiet periods. For recruitniks, feel free to keep this page bookmarked over the next few months as a reference if you're wondering what's going on in any given month.
We're going to be updating this page throughout the spring and summer with our coaching staff's activity, who went to watch which AAU camps, which recruits visited when, etc. Hopefully it becomes a sort of chronology of Virginia recruiting this summer.
For reference, you can find the 2017-18 NCAA recruiting calendar at this link.
Here are the NCAA's definitions:
Contact Period or Recruiting Period: During a contact period a college coach may have face-to-face contact with college-bound student-athletes or their parents, watch student-athletes compete and visit their high schools, and write or telephone student-athletes or their parents.
Evaluation Period: During an evaluation period a college coach may watch college-bound student-athletes compete, visit their high schools, and write or telephone student-athletes or their parents. However, a college coach may not have face-to-face contact with college-bound student-athletes or their parents off the college’s campus during an evaluation period.
Quiet Period: During a quiet period, a college coach may only have face-to-face contact with college-bound student-athletes or their parents on the college’s campus. A coach may not watch student-athletes compete (unless a competition occurs on the college’s campus) or visit their high schools. Coaches may write or telephone college-bound student-athletes or their parents during this time.
Dead Period: During a dead period a college coach may not have face-to-face contact with college-bound student-athletes or their parents, and may not watch student-athletes compete or visit their high schools. Coaches may write and telephone student-athletes or their parents during a dead period.
April
March 29th - April 5th - Dead period - Final Four Weekend. Casey Morsell committed on April 4th.
April 5th - 8th - Recruiting Period - No news leaked on where the staff went, or who they visited, during this period.
April 9th - 12th - Dead Period
April 13th - 18th - Recruiting Period - Expect the staff to continue to go in-home/school with already-offered priority targets, and possibly work to get some of those targets on Grounds. Eric Dixon announced for Villanova. Tony went in-home with DJ Burns, Robert Braswell, MaCio Teague. Keyshawn Woods visited on 4/18.
April 20th - 22nd - Evaluation Period - The staff hit the road to watch priority targets at major AAU events and start looking for new targets. Those events were:
Adidas Gauntlet - Regional Events in Dallas, Indianapolis, DC, and Los Angeles
Nike EYBL - Dallas, TX
Under Armour Association - UAA Session #1 - Dallas, TX
April 23rd - 26th - Quiet Period. Keyshawn Woods committed to Ohio State.
April 27th - 29th - Evaluation Period - The staff hit the road to watch priority targets at major AAU events and start looking for new targets. Those events were:
Adidas Gauntlet - Atlanta, GA
Nike EYBL - Indianapolis, IN
Under Armour Association - UAA Session #2, Indianapolis, IN
May
May 1 - Francisco Caffaro visits and commits.
May 3-6 - Braxton Key visits and subsequently commits.
April 30 - May 16th - Quiet Period - Campus visits are the only face-to-face activities allowed, so getting targets on Grounds will be the focus of these weeks. Events going on during this period that college coaches cannot attend include:
May 11-13 - Nike EYBL - Atlanta, GA
May 17th - 25th - Dead Period
► May 26th - 31st - Quiet Period - 2020 guard Noah Farrahkan visited. Events during this period that college coaches could not attend included:
May 24-27 - Under Armour Association - UA IMG Camp, Bradenton, FL
May 25-28 - Adidas Gauntlet - Regional Events in Atlanta, DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas
May 26-28 - Nike EYBL - Hampton, VA
June
June 1st - 30th - Quiet Period - Events going on during this period that college coaches cannot attend include:
TBD - NBPA Top 100 Camp, Charlottesville, VA
TBD - Steph Curry Camp
July
July 1st - 5th - Quiet Period
July 6th - 11th - Dead Period
July 11th - 15th - Evaluation Period - The staff will hit the road to watch priority targets and identify new ones at major AAU events. Those events are:
Adidas Gauntlet - Finale - New York, NY
Nike EYBL - None
Under Armour Association - UAA Invitational - Atlanta, GA
July 15th - 18th - Dead Period
July 18th - 22nd - Evaluation Period - The staff will hit the road to watch priority targets and identify new ones at major AAU events. Those events are:
Adidas Gauntlet - Summer Championships - Orange County, CA
Nike EYBL - None
Under Armour Association - TBD
July 22nd - 25th - Dead Period
July 25th - 29th - Evaluation Period - The staff will hit the road to watch priority targets and identify new ones at major AAU events. Those events are:
Adidas Gauntlet - None
Nike EYBL - Peach Jam - North Augusta, SC
Under Armour Association - UAA Finals - Las Vegas, NV
July 29-31 - Dead Period - End of NCAA academic year.
August
August 1st - 31st - Quiet Period (expected) - The staff will spend this month getting recruits to visit JPJ and hopefully secure commitments. During this month, the following events will occur that college coaches cannot attend:
Under Armour Elite 24 - TBD