Eric Bossi should tell us how he really feels

Eric Bossi of Rivals recently posted this commentary:    

... 2. End of July is reason to change "live" period

There are still plenty of coaches out at the end of July because, well, they don't have any choice but to use all of their allotted 20 days for July evaluation. There are also still plenty of teams that are out and about at the end of the month. But, over the past few years, we've noticed a growing trend. End of July basketball often stinks and will only get worse unless something is done to change the current evaluation period.

More and more, coaches show up to gyms to find that players they are expecting to watch have come up injured. More often than not, it's a case of players and teams electing to sit because they are exhausted from the grueling July schedule that keeps them on the road for two 10-day periods. Of course, in its infinite wisdom the NCAA says that college coaches can't contact summer coaches or players who are at events so many times nobody is able to communicate that Player X is sitting out.

Not to mention, the two 10-day periods have created mega events that force coaches to sift through a lot of teams that lack Division I prospects because of the money grab created for event coordinators.

The bottom line is that something about the month of July needs to be changed and there's no more lipstick left to put on the pig of a system that is currently in place.

There has been a lot of talk about opening up some weekends in the spring for coaches to get out and evaluate players in tournaments and that can't come soon enough. The solution seems simple enough. Give the coaches the weekend after the Final Four, Memorial Day and then between 12 and 16 days in July to evaluate players. This will give them a chance to see guys earlier, chart their development and prevent a lot of unnecessarily bad basketball at the end of July ...