Tennessee's Butch Jones: "I think that's a very good thought and a very good proposal. When a young man is making a decision, he would obviously like his family there with him. I think in today's world of recruiting, very few individuals take five official visits. If you did limit them and you were able to take a mother or father with them, I think that's extremely healthy and very beneficial when a young man is trying to make a decision that will, quite frankly, not only affect four years of his life but the rest of his life. It's a big decision and they rely on their family. So to be able to bring them on the official visit would benefit the whole recruiting process."
Florida State's Jimbo Fisher: "I think that's critical. I think that's a very good rule. A kid that lives six-eight hours away and his parents can't come and see the place with him? You've got be able to bring the family. It's a family decision. It's very critical for a guy at that age. Most of the kids don't take the five official visits anyways. Most everybody knows there are only two or three schools in it anyways. But if we could work out something for them to bring family with them, I think that would be extremely critical."
Notre Dame's Brian Kelly: "I think it's absolutely crucial to have the family, in particular the parents, on the official visits when they're making arguably the biggest decision of their life. I think it's absolutely crucial that they're allowed to be on that visit with them if we're really in it for the best interests of the student-athlete. Allowing us to compensate the families and getting them on the visits so they can help the young man make the biggest decision of their life, that seems to be an easy one for me. As it relates to the number of visits, I don't know if I have an opinion on that one way or the other because most of the time, I don't think they use their five. But I think you should allow them to keep the five. And for most part, they don't use them all. I think if we find out that they are using them up just to use them, then maybe we can look at it statistically and narrow it down. But I think the most important part of that is paying for the parents to be on that visit."
Mississippi State's Dan Mullen: "Anytime you can pay for the parents to come up is huge, especially for us in recruiting because we are a family-oriented program with how we do things. I love having parents involved in the recruiting aspect of things. The opportunity to get them on a visit is huge and very important to us. If you did a study, I don't think a lot of kids take five official visits. So, I think the opportunity to do less visits but with more substance on the visits would be a really good idea."
Mississippi's Hugh Freeze: "Our chances of getting a kid here increase dramatically if we get the parents to visit with them. I think when they see what we have going on here with the family atmosphere, the new facilities and everything we have with our vision here, it certainly benefits just to have them here. I would be in favor of anything to get them (parents) to visit here."
South Carolina's Steve Spurrier: "That would be fine with me. We need to pay for everything we can for the parents of these kids. I've always been for a stipend of around $4,000 a year for college football players and college basketball players because they do bring in so much money to our universities."
Missouri's Gary Pinkel: "That would good if you get parents or guardians on visits. Most kids visit six or seven schools on unofficial visits and they kind of narrow it down to which ones they really want to go to (on official visits). So I think there's common sense with that."
