Bison137
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Reg: 01-23-06
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07-09-06 04:13 AM - Post#21189
In response to VA Renegades
Thanks, administrator, for the input. Given the hundreds of pages in the NCAA rules manual, I'm glad that there is someone monitoring all of the boards. As the father of a D1 athlete who went through the whole recruiting process, I have some appreciation of the complexity of the various rules and regulations. Here are a few additional thoughts that some might be interested in:
1. First, everyone should understand that "Virginia Renegades" has every right to post here under NCAA rules and that he can legitimately publish info any time he chooses. (And it was an interesting post, btw.) As the adminstrator points out, he can also ask questions and people on the board can properly answer.
2. There are often different rules governing a college coach contacting the recruit and his/her parents as opposed to contact with the athlete's coach. I can personally attest that there are many instances where the coach cannot phone the athlete but can legitimately call the athlete's high school or club coach.
3. The basic NCAA rule on boosters says, in its entirety, that "in-person recruiting contact by boosters is prohibited, as are written (including electronic correspondence) and telephonic communications with THE PROSPECT AND THE PROSPECT'S RELATIVES. (Caps are mine.)
4. I imagine the aforementioned Ivy school, the one that opted to report a series of exchanges between one of its boosters and a player's parent, felt they needed to do so because of the provision about contact with a "prospect's relatives". As far as I have seen or heard, the NCAA rules, if any, about contact with a coach are not as restrictive.
5. As BUPilot pointed out, a number of posters who probably don't think of themselves as "boosters" nonetheless fall into that category based on the NCAA definition. For example, anyone who has contributed to the Bison Club may well be classified as a booster.
6. Over the years, I have seen a number of occasions where a school's boosters exchanged messages (sometimes many of them) with a prospect's parents on a message board. One of them involved a well-known Duke recruit's father. Another involved a UConn recruit. I am not aware of any case where a school was sanctioned in any way.
In any event, this gives us all something more to think about. It's sometimes a shame that the blatant cheating of the Tarkanians and Harricks etc of the world force the NCAA to overlegislate, causing more hassle for those who are honorable and follow the rules.
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