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Question? Why post accusing people of violating a rule or two? Have you investigated these infractions? What were your findings? This would call more attention than what you are eluding to.

I suspect it has something to do with twitter contact with recruits.

Which is technically a violation, but one that is so widely broken, I doubt it would ever be prosecuted. Twitter has made contact very easy and probably wasn't around when these rules were made.

(04-29-2013 02:13 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  I suspect it has something to do with twitter contact with recruits.

Which is technically a violation, but one that is so widely broken, I doubt it would ever be prosecuteduntil Nick Saban and Alabama get busted just down the road, and then the NCAA is going to need a program to make an example out of. Twitter has made contact very easy and probably wasn't around when these rules were made.

FIFY

You probably won't find one recruit on twitter that hasn't been contacted by fans of those schools.

I noticed a fan encouraging Blazers on Twitter to follow a recruit. It's still a violation even if other schools' fans do it.

(04-29-2013 02:34 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  I noticed a fan encouraging Blazers on Twitter to follow a recruit. It's still a violation even if other schools' fans do it.

Not saying its not a violation...it is. But I think the problem goes a little higher than the fans. But I don't think that should be discussed here.

(04-29-2013 02:26 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(04-29-2013 02:13 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  I suspect it has something to do with twitter contact with recruits.

Which is technically a violation, but one that is so widely broken, I doubt it would ever be prosecuteduntil Nick Saban and Alabama get busted just down the road, and then the NCAA is going to need a program to make an example out of. Twitter has made contact very easy and probably wasn't around when these rules were made.

FIFY

Exactly.

Kick the dog! Woof Where is that old picture if bear jr and the dog with the UAB logo?

I suspect if the old kick the dog theory was true, Between Alabama and Auburn, UaB would have received the death penalty by now.

It's hogwash.

I don't have a twitter account, but if I did, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't follow high school athletes on it.

You can only stand so much atrocious spelling and grammar (both intentional and otherwise) before you start losing IQ points.

(04-29-2013 03:43 PM)Smaug Wrote:  I don't have a twitter account, but if I did, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't follow high school athletes on it.

You can only stand so much atrocious spelling and grammar (both intentional and otherwise) before you start losing IQ points.

I think of it as the Prime Directive from Star Trek. Don't talk to them and don't interfere until they grow up.

There's a word for middle-aged guys who stalk 17-year-olds.

Is following a recruit (but not commenting or talking to him) a violation? How is that different than going to watch his game (serious question, since I have very little idea how twitter works).

No, its not a violation.

So if you make a tweet and include the recruits twitter id, such as... I hope @greatpg commits to UAB. Are you really talking to that recruit, or making a statement about the recruit. I know they will be alerted about your tweet, and they will probably retweet it. But are you talking to them or about them?

I am looking for serious answers not for people to show me how witty they are.

(04-29-2013 05:57 PM)ICB Wrote:  So if you make a tweet and include the recruits twitter id, such as... I hope @greatpg commits to UAB. Are you really talking to that recruit, or making a statement about the recruit. I know they will be alerted about your tweet, and they will probably retweet it. But are you talking to them or about them?

I am looking for serious answers not for people to show me how witty they are.

I think you're engaging the kid.

(04-29-2013 03:43 PM)Smaug Wrote:  I don't have a twitter account, but if I did, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't follow high school athletes on it.

You can only stand so much atrocious spelling and grammar (both intentional and otherwise) before you start losing IQ points.

You learn some curse words you didn't know existed.

The NCAA is never going to come down on someone because a fan tweeted a recruit unless those tweets include offers of benefits, and even then, there would have to be something more involved.

That said, I am not encouraging it be done. But they will never do that. The NCAA is actually easing up on contact rules, such as allowing unlimited text messages to recruits by coaches.

(04-29-2013 06:40 PM)the_blazerman Wrote:  

(04-29-2013 03:43 PM)Smaug Wrote:  I don't have a twitter account, but if I did, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't follow high school athletes on it.

You can only stand so much atrocious spelling and grammar (both intentional and otherwise) before you start losing IQ points.

You learn some curse words you didn't know existed.

Until twitter, I never knew ish was another word for fecal matter.