Semi-OT: What is allowed in recruiting these days? (Damon Webb warning)

Submitted by boliver46 on

These days, it's hard to know what is and is not allowed in the world of recruiting.  We've laughed at the tweets to recruits from the likes of Joker Phillips, et. al., but I hadn't seen something like this yet.  I saw an article on Maize 'n' Brew on recruiting.  I was shocked to see a retweeted photo of Damon Webb pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated, content created by the recruiting department at Ohio State.

I guess I don't get how this is allowed - using a NAME BRAND (Sports Illustrated) in recruiting materials - yet game-day simulations (e.g. announcing recruit's name over P.A. in stadium) is not.  Would SI have to give some sort of permission for them to use their name?  Just doesn't seem right to me - but I don't know all the rules of recruiting.

Although this is a cool idea - still sucks to lose out on Webb.  

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uofmdds96

December 7th, 2013 at 9:45 AM ^

At the Kid's Day, I took a picture of my daughter and Kalis and had him sign the picture that we printed out of the two of them from the previous year. He thought it was pretty cool, so messaged him on Facebook and included the pic. Afterwards, I thought that maybe this might have been a violation, so I contacted our compliance department. They said that it was not since it was an electronic image. However, if I had printed the pic and mailed it, it would be a violation.