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Recruiting looks to return to normalcy with the end of dead period

With less than two weeks until the end of the NCAA’s mandatory recruiting dead period, college coaching staffs across the country are looking forward to opening their campuses to high school prospects for the first time in more than a year.

Coaches will get face-to-face with recruits for the first time since March 13, 2020, when the NCAA announced it was shutting down in-person visits due to the coronavirus pandemic.

“We’ll be able to have kids on campus, which is big,” said Florida State coach Mike Norvell. “To think that I’ve been in the job for over a year-and-a-half and there have been less than 20 days that we’ve had that opportunity so it’s going to be critical for us and it’s going to be joyful for us to get face-to-face.