The NCAA football page of ESPN has 10 commandments for recruiting high school students to college teams. This has become a big business in the last decade or so, checking out players during their early high school years, as well as later on. They also want to get the best people, people they can develop, as well as some people who already are pretty well perfect. The 10 rules aren’t really anything awful or unexpected. There are also a couple of new things dealing with new technology and such. For example, they should speak as though they are on the record at all times, because there are all kinds of recruitment websites, where parents and prospective players write in what they hear. Recruiters need to keep this in mind whenever they are talking. Take a look at the full set of rules.