P.J. Fleck hasn’t even coached a minute of B1G football yet, and he’s already changing the game.

Earlier in the month, the first-year Minnesota coach found a recruiting loophole. The Gophers posted a video that had Minnesota recruits in it, but the video didn’t identify any of them directly. It only highlighted the Minnesota camp experience, so technically, it wasn’t in violation of any NCAA rules.

Well, consider that loophole closed.

The NCAA issued an official interpretation on its policy regarding “Photographs and Video of Prospective Student-Althetes in Camp or Clinic Information and Advertisements.”

Videos like the one Minnesota used are only allowed if:

  1. The photographs/videos are taken during the normal course of camp or clinic activities (e.g. instruction, competition, meal(s) and are not staged or arranged.
  2. The purpose of the photographs/videos is to demonstrate camp or clinic activities and
  3. The photopgraphs/videos may not contain any content that focuses attention on (e.g. closeup photographs/video of a prospective student-athlete or multiple prospective student-athlete(s) or celebretizes a prospective student-athlete’s (or multiple prospective student-athletes’) attendance at a camp or clinic. In addition, once a prospective student-athlete has signed a National Letter or Intent, the institution’s written offer of admission and/or financial aid, or the institution has received his or her financial deposit in response to the institution’s offer of admission, a staged or arranged photograph/video may be used in camp or clinic information and advertisements only in the same manner in which it is permissible to use photographs/video of student-athletes.

Did you get all of that? Let’s call it “The Fleck Rule.” Obviously the NCAA doesn’t take too kindly to coaches making headlines for exposing loopholes.

Just ask Jim Harbaugh about that.