Text message rule to be discussed by NCAA today...

i fully agree. it has been a loophole to the rules.

 

The more I think about this, the more I'm becoming convinced it's not that big of a deal. I'm basing that on the thought of how it may be different than email (none that I can see) or how it may be different than the kids high school coach telling a player "you should think about calling this coach."

Do we keep the kids from talking to prospective colleges/coaches? I see that as a privacy issue and that is something these Ivy League guys are using as a reason.

 

If there are prohibited from receiving items through the mail, then they should be forbidden from receiving e-mails and text messages as well. That makes no sense to me.

Like the good BB said, no contact means no contact.

 

As far as difference between email, it is quite different. I have teenagers myself that go upwards of 2000 text msgs/month, and they are not athletes. Depending on your rate plan, if you exceed your allocation, then your charges really rack up, and you get charged not just for ones you send, but also ones that other people send you. A recruit getting 50-60/day can really add up and all that $ dumps on them, not the school. That is just the monetary side, and doesn't even touch the ethical side.

Mail and even email has different rules than phones/cells because of the ease of access. Text msg unfortunately are sent to a cell phone but treated like emails, or perhaps they are not regulated at all. It amounts to a perversion of the intent of the current rules and certainly needs to be fixed in these days of mounting pressure for recruits.

At the end of the day, the recruiting field should be even and the recruit should choose based solely upon his/family's decisions, not upon who was in his ear 50% more than everyone else.

 

Perversion? I don't see it that way. I suppose one could point to the scholly's the state of Louisiana gives out to college kids and call that a perversion because you find baseball players using a lot of that money. I don't call it perversion, but adaptation. I suspect, you'd find fans in Georgia and South Carolina feelings the same of the scholly situation.

 

FWIW, and it's a different thread all together, I wouldn't mind seeing the recruiting season in football set more like basketball. It would change the dynamics a bit.

 

Not quite sure how you make that leap. How does a successful football program generating enough funds to enable scholarships for other sports equate with unlimited and unregulated contact with a recruit?? Trying to see a correlation here on some level but I don't get it.

If you think that unlimited, unregulated access to a recruit is acceptable, then by that logic, it should not be limited in anyway at all, including official visits, unofficial visits, in-home visits, and phone calls. If there are limits in place on all other forms of communication, why are the barn doors open on this one? The answer is because it is a relatively new development and has not been addressed until now, and if it wasn't an issue, nothing would be regulated. You can take it to the bank that it will be regulated in the near future.

 

I certainly do agree with you on that one. It's a pity how young these kids are when they learn what a business this is.

 

I've always wanted it to go to a system like that.

 

Thanks for your tribute to VT and the Hokies. I went to grad school at VT after Auburn so this senseless crap comes close to home for me.