Mail: coaches can send 8.5x11 paper or smaller starting June 15 before junior year. You can send anything anytime (no money or gifts).

Visits: anytime, any age. You just can't be in a football facility or in person with a staff member during a dead period.

Four periods: Contact, Evaluation, Quiet, Dead. See the Calendar tab. Calls, texts, DMs, emails never stop.

Sept 1 opens the fall evaluation period. Coaches can come to your school and games.

Parents can't be contacted before June 15 either, unless the parent calls the coach or is a coach on the team. Your HS coach can talk to college coaches anytime.

Official visits start April 1 of junior year. One per school, unlimited schools. The school pays travel, hotel, meals and entertainment for you and two guests, two days. Every other visit is unofficial. You pay.

NCAA ID: needed to approve an official visit and to play. Ten minutes on the Eligibility Center site. Not in your bio.