NCAA banning schools from decorating hotel rooms on official visits

Toward the end of 2023, the NCAA began to crack down on legislation for recruiting visits, stating that schools can no longer arrange photo shoots for prospects during unofficial visits. That’s not the only change being made.

On Thursday, 247Sports’ Andrew Ivins reported that the NCAA sent out an email stating that schools “can no longer decorate prospect’s hotel rooms on officials,” and added that “all cookie cakes and snacks must be handed to recruits in lobby.”

Often times recruits will take to social media to show off a spread of food and apparel that awaits them and their family upon entering their hotel rooms before making visits. That now looks to be the latest change being made by the NCAA.

Fans have grown accustomed to seeing high-profile high school athletes pose in their school’s gear alongside head coaches, often times with unique props in the background, even including luxury sports cars, live animals and more.

Eye-popping hotel room setups are now set to return back to beige walls. Recruits will now have to settle for carrying cookie cake up to their room, instead. Times continue to change in the recruiting world as rules become stiffer.