Every time a newspaper reporter deigns to cover the seedy world of recruiting these days you invariably get paragraphs upon paragraphs about the text messaging phenomenon that's swept through the land in the past few years. Coaches are strictly prohibited from calling recruits during extensive "dead periods" during the year, but no such restrictions exist for texting, so the coaches just text "call me lol" to the kids and the dead periods designed to give players time off from being pitched become expensive exercises in acronym deciphering. It's pretty stupid and should be banned. And, hey, it just might be:
The NCAA management council plans to start tackling that Monday and Tuesday in Indianapolis when it debates an Ivy League proposal that would ban all text messages. Among major concerns cited by school officials and athletes are the cost, which recruits sometimes bear, and privacy.Kudos to the Ivies for bringing this up; the NCAA will also look at Myspace and Youtube and blogs and such, as the NCAA's archiac rulebook is way behind the times:
Aside from exposing potentially embarrassing photos or messages, Brand and Hickey already have gotten reports of social sites being used as a recruiting venue. Because of alias usernames and privacy protections, it's sometimes impossible to determine potential NCAA infractions. Boosters, for instance, are prohibited from contacting recruits.That's probably a reference to "Terrelle Pryor, Come be a Nittany Lion!!!," a Facebook group that Penn State demanded the removal of. "Terrelle Pryor must go to PITT!," on the other hand, remains active.
(Via iBlog For Cookies.)
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4-20-2007 @ 5:28AM
Gifford Blyton Roberts said...
Don't blame the Confederate flag, and her embattled supporters, for NCAA's senseless boycotting of states that fly the Confederate flag (viz. Mississippi and South Carolina).
The NCAA is a great organization which not only provides people the opportunity to watch or participate in high caliber college level sports. Yet, the NCAA is has tried to initiate Civil War 2 by their recent sanctions against state's flying a Confederate flag.
Besides the truth is the Confederate flag is not racist. That is the truth no matter how many people with good intentions, but poor historically based reasoning, malign the beloved symbols of the Confederacy. These people may try destroy or try to distort the truth behind the Lost Cause, but as Confederate President Jefferson Davis once remarked, "Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again."*
The NCAA is doing their best to crush the truth, but the Sons of Confederate Veterans are circulating a petition to stop the senseless ban the NCAA mindlessly introduced. To see the signatures or sign it yourself go to www.ncaainterference.org .
*[quote from http://www.scvcalifornia.net/SJQuotes.htm ]
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