Other changes include the regulation of workouts. Coaches now can put a recruit through a tryout on his official visit, as well as give instruction to freshmen in the summer.
Gone will be many inadvertent recruiting violations. For instance, UT was assessed a secondary violation when an assistant replied to a text message sent by a recruit expressing condolences after the coach’s father died. Another assistant phoned a prospect twice in one month, forgetting to make record of the first call.
In either case, UT reported the violation and avoided penalty.
Under the old set of rules, Kowalczyk didn’t respond to congratulatory texts from numbers he didn’t recognize, fearing the note might have been sent by a recruit or his parent.
“If I don’t recognize the number, the last thing I do is reply,” he said.
Those concerns, come June 15, will be over. A new era is under way.
“That date has kind of been in my head for a couple of months,” Lauf said.
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