NCAA opens door for unlimited texting between recruits, football coaches

[kamoshika]

As if teenagers aren’t on their phones enough, a change in NCAA rules announced Friday could mean a whole lot of text messages for football recruits.

The Division I Council deregulated electronic communication in football, cross country, track and field and swimming and diving. The seemingly means recruits could receive unlimited texts from coaches and also opens communication across other social media. A Snapchat session with Nick Saban, perhaps?

Football was among the last sports with a prohibition on text messages; college basketball recruiting lifted its text message restriction three years ago. Text messaging in football was banned in 2007.

“This essentially allowed the inevitable,” 247Sports national scouting director Barton Simmons said. “This allows coaches to go ahead and cross that last hurdle and interact over text message."
NCAA opens door for unlimited texting between recruits, football coaches | | USA Today High School Sports

 

[vol_fan89]

I thought CUM's thoughts on the new rule were interesting:

Ohio State coach Urban Meyer has been opposed to lifting the texting prohibition because while a prospect could opt not to respond to a coach’s text, he can’t block communication as he would be able to on Twitter or Facebook.

“I hear the stuff about texting,” Meyer said. on National Signing Day, according to cleveland.com. “I want to make this clear why — and this is a high school coach’s and high school player perspective — not college coaches. Who cares about college coaches? That’s not what this is about. It’s about them, and not screwing up a high school kid’s senior year or junior year. If you text someone, you can’t stop that, so you have a phone full of what? Text messages.

“If I don’t want to hear from that school they’ll keep hitting me because that’s their job, and usually it’s not them, it’s maybe an intern doing it. So here’s a kid in high school being bombarded with text messages sitting there doing this all day. If it’s social media, you can determine who you want to hear from.”

 

[ERvolsfan]

I thought CUM's thoughts on the new rule were interesting:

I find this interesting, because you can block texts as well. So that point is void, however if multiple people from one school is texting youll have to block each individual number, just as you would on social media with each individual account. So I dont see this being a problem.

 

[Darth_Shiveman]

Urban Meyer showing his age there lol

 

[casetopia]

I'm all for anything Urban is against.

 

[KBVol]

I'm all for anything Urban is against.

Good rule of thumb.

 

[RollerVol]

Openings for a new Staff Recruiting Division (SRD)...Recruiting Textsters...

GO VOLS!

 

[orangeluvr]

Unlimited sexting. :ermm:

 

[Giveem6]

Unlimited sexting. :ermm:

That escalated quickly

 

[Catbone]

Lane Kiffins wife liked this rule

 

[TNnative]

I feel this falls under the, "Cannot really monitor it, can't really regulate it, and if we try, it takes too many extra people to sort through it, and costs enough to eliminate out next raise" kind of decision.