Ohio State Football: New Letter of Intent rules will cause more chaos

The Ohio State football program knows that they have to keep recruiting even committed recruits every single day until that Letter of Intent is signed. With how NIL is being used these days, a recruit could flip on a moment’s notice. That is about to get worse.

The governing body for the National Letter of Intent Program announced on Tuesday some new policies regarding Letters of Intent. Now, under certain circumstances, a prospect can back out of their LOI without any consequences for doing so. Recruits used to have to sit out a year in order to do so.

One of the circumstances in which it will be allowed is if a program changes head coaches. That makes sense to me since a coach never gets penalized for taking a new job. Another circumstance is that an athlete doesn’t need to sit out a year as long as they have attended that school for a semester or quarter and a release is requested.

This will make things a lot more chaotic across college sports. This isn’t just something for the Ohio State football program to worry about either. It’s across all sports. Negative recruiting is about to be at an all-time high in regard to opposing coaches.

This policy will come into effect for the class of 2024-25 enrollees. That means that this is something that’s going to happen very soon. The Buckeyes better be ready for this. If Ryan Day doesn’t beat TTUN this year, recruiting negativity will be at an all-time high against him.

I think this is probably the fair thing to do for the athletes though. Coaches can move freely between programs so why shouldn’t the players be able to as well? This will make recruiting a lot more chaotic though, especially at the end of recruiting cycles.