Nebraska basketball: How proposed changes could alter the NCAA

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TUCSON, AZ – MARCH 03: Head coach Sean Miller of the Arizona Wildcats greets Allonzo Trier /

A change in official visits could be a problem for the Nebraska basketball team.

When it comes to the recruiting front, the Pac 12 wants more sweeping changes. In particular, the conference wants there to be specific, NCAA organized events to take place in July.

The Pac 12 also wants recruiting during the summer to basically only take place at these events. The invitations to these events would also be issued to specific players, rather than “travel teams.”

Under the new rules suggestions, coaches would not be able to talk to these players except at these July events. There are also big-time changes to visits.

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Currently, Juniors in high school can start to take college visits on January 1 of their Junior year. The proposed changes would make it so that these Juniors couldn’t visit until the beginning of the fall of that year.

There is a bit of a change in that “on-campus” evaluations would be allowed during Junior year visits. Currently, those are only allowed during Senior year visits.

The number of visits that can be taken is changing in the Pac 12’s official rules changes as well. The conference would like players to have the ability to take five official visits in each of their Junior and Senior years.

The one caveat here is that they could not take two visits to the same school in an academic year. It’s hard to say exactly how these changes would affect the Cornhuskers.

What is known is that the landscape will most certainly change for the Nebraska basketball team and the rest of the college basketball world should these suggestions become the law of the land. It will certainly be interesting to see how far any of these proposals get.

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