<p>varska & riverrunner</p>
<p>that is why I preferenced my response to this in terms of revenue and non-revenue producing sports. Most non-revenue sports have the luxury of having interested prospectives with the means/ability to take "unofficial visits and it’s really no skin off their back. the revenue sports are under much tighter watch, because you don’t want the appearance of “buying a player”…trust me it happens all the time, I knew from when I played, I’ve seen my best friends nephew be in the middle of NCAA sanction being leveled against a basketball program stripping them of NIT/NCAA final four records etc…and by the same token I’ve rode in cars driven by players who didn’t even have a drivers license.</p>
<p>Official visits are what the NCAA watches and records are maintained on each one for compliance purposes so those if you are granted one are best handled through the A/D.</p>