Recruiting will change this week

[PonyPride]

As of Tuesday (Aug. 1), text messages no longer are a "free" way for schools to contact recruits. Coaches still can send text messages, but I get the impression they have a limit on how many, and they have to keep a log of them, just like they keep a log of them, like they do with phone calls.

[George S. Patton]

Thanks, PonyPride.

I take it that's how the NCAA committee modified that rule? I knew back in the spring they were going to be banned.

Just had not heard the latest.

[Pony4Life]

I wonder how many schools will abide by this new rule, because I expect the only way the NCAA can fairly enforce this is to make schools look them right in the figurative eye and say "OK, we PROMISE not to text kids anymore."

When Houston Nutt was sending all of those text messages to that reporter-who-isn't-his-wife, someone got ahold of that through the Public Information Act via the Arkansas state government. Would such information be available for employees of private institutions? If not, surely the NCAA would have to look the other way when public schools are suspected of text-message infractions, right (assuming — fill in your own punchline here — that the NCAA has at least a passing interest in enforcing rules equally for all schools...)?

I read somewhere that this rule is designed to "even the recruiting battles," at least a little bit. Personally, I'm not sure how, since I highly doubt Texas and Notre Dame and Florida State have faster text-ers than SMU and TCU and Vanderbilt, etc.

Or is this just a move designed to make it LOOK like the NCAA is interested in evening the recruiting battles?

[ponyplayer]

the new rule reads:

"To specify that electroniclly transmitted correspondence that may be sent to a prospective student-athlete is limited to electronic mail and facsimiles".

I believe that the NCAA has banned all text messages. This will be reversed from what I am hearing.

[PonyTales]

Reversed? So text-massaging will be allowed again?

Way to stick to your guns, NCAA.

[jtstang]

Reversed? So text-massaging will be allowed again?

Way to stick to your guns, NCAA.

Does that text-massage come with a happy ending? I got to get me one of those new phones.

[Grider]

Reversed? So text-massaging will be allowed again?

Way to stick to your guns, NCAA.

Does that text-massage come with a happy ending? I got to get me one of those new phones.

just set your old one to vibrate.

[ponyplayer]

Reversed? So text-massaging will be allowed again?

Way to stick to your guns, NCAA.

Does that text-massage come with a happy ending? I got to get me one of those new phones.

just set your old one to vibrate.

and have a pair of european fashion pants..................