Nick Henrich a Jr. at Burke HS

[Tuco Salamanca]

The issue is that only assistant coaches can have direct off campus interaction with potential scholarship athletes. Staff members cannot under NCAA rules have contact with potential scholarship athletes off campus. They may only have contact with walk-ons off campus.

That severely limits Kenny Wilhites impact in these scenarios.

So according to your Miami link, Wilhite is NOT able to have contact with walk ons off campus.

Since off campus contact doesn't happen until the summer before their senior year, it is my experience that the majority of the recruiting is done via phone, email and text AND considerably earlier than the summer before their senior year.

After Sept 1 of the PSA's junior year, institutional staff may initiate contact with the PSA via phone, text or email.

Prior to Sept 1 of their junior year, the PSA may initiate unlimited contact with institutional staff.


Point of the matter is that if Nebraska is waiting to initiate contact until it can have off campus contact with a PSA they are going to miss out on 99.9% of those players.

As I said before, I can promise you that if Kenny Wilhite wants to have contact with Nick Henrich, it is happening and there are no rules violations.

 

[1949 tackle]

You can invite them by mail to events on campus. That's how we've been doing it for years.

 

[1949 tackle]

You are correct Wilhite may NOT have direct contact with recruits OFF-CAMPUS. He can call them, and he can meet with them on campus. That is what he does.

I noted someone talking about Tavita; the only time he could make contact with recruits directly was when we fired Hughes and when we fired Banker. At that time he was designated a coach by Riley until the new coach was hired. They have played into the pneumbra of the rules with Tavita from time to time, they need to be cautious with that.

 

[Tuco Salamanca]

Aldo you are correct Wilhite may NOT have direct contact with recruits OFF-CAMPUS. He can call them, and he can met with on campus. That is what he does.

I noted someone talking about Tavita; the only time he could make contact with recruits directly was when we fired Hughes and when we fired Banker. At that time he was designated a coach by Riley until the new coach was hired. They have played into the pneumbra of the rules with Tavita from time to time, they need to be cautious with that.

Tavita can be in contact with recruits via email and phone, especially if they call or email him. He was allowed to be an off campus recruiter when Nebraska didn't have its full compliment of off campus recruiters. Two different situations.