SIAP:Interesting article on NCAA recruiting contact from Duck-ville
Sample conundrum: A coach may e-mail -- but not text-message -- a prospect. So if a prospect changes his or her setup to receive e-mails like text messages, the coach must cease to e-mail the prospect.
http://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ssf/2011/06/the_bachscore_ncaa_muddy_on_us.html
What does it mean to change his or her setup? Are they talking like having their email access on their phone?
No. They are likely referring to emails coming in and being stored in the same or a related inbox for the text messages, triggering the same type of alert that the text messages would generate.
I am with you on your sig line. SIAP is fucking lame.
First the Plain Dealer's "So you think you know NCAA regs" quiz and now this.
I guess the first thing you do when your local school is under the gun is to find the fuzziest or most obscure regulation and run a story about it. "Look how illogical NCAA regulations are...how could anyone possibly have been expected to realize that hiring an agent as an assistant coach* would be against the rules?"
*Or paying $25,000 to a runner for worthless recruiting info, or taking stuff from the equipment room and signing and selling it for tens of thousands....
(Not to say the article doesn't raise an interesting point--it's just that the timing seems a bit convenient.)
What really sucks is that the media compares minor violations with the major ones that are being investigated as if the confusion over a minor violation excuses the commission of many major ones. The inference here is, "the NCAA rules over texting are confusing so it's OK to pay a service $25,000 to deliver a recruit."
It's always great to see that people with journalism degrees are so adept in using implied non sequiturs in their "reasoning."