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to make sure they aren't being used to entice recruits to come to schools. a report on that subject was just on channel 13 here in indy.....
 

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ncaa will start patrolling fan websites....

to make sure they aren't being used to entice recruits to come to schools. a report on that subject was just on channel 13 here in indy.....
 
It won't ever happen. It's not feasible and they're just blowing smoke IMO.

There are thousands and thousands of independent fan sites not to mention network fans sites belonging to Scout, Rivals, etc... they'd have to hire an entire division of people to do this.
 
channel 13's report said it will be up to each school....

to check the websites...they will hold each school responsible....channel 13's report included interviews with athletic department compliance personnel at iu and the university of indianapolis....each school has been told to patrol their own fans websites....for possible violations....
 
TJames said:
to check the websites...they will hold each school responsible....channel 13's report included interviews with athletic department compliance personnel at iu and the university of indianapolis....each school has been told to patrol their own fans websites....for possible violations....
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So they're dumping it off on the institution on top of it?

There are several big problems with this -- how much time does an athletics department have to police, you know? They going to do it once a week? Even visiting them daily could be a nightmare, especially for big schools like Florida, Notre Dame, Texas that have 5-10 huge sites that get thousands of posts per day.
 
oh...i know....

they said in the report....that the ncaa may be facing freedom of speech problems with their patrolling as well...how do they police fans...students...from making comments...about specfic recruits....

the report also said that each school will send out a cease and desist letter to the people running the website that is in violation...before taking further legal action....
 

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Each school SHOULD send a "cease & desist" letter to the NCAA for violating 5th Amendment fan rights...

Trust me, the ACLU will be waiting around every corner that the NCAA hides behind on this one. The rule is "arbitrary & capricious" and can't ever be equally enforced. Can't wait for the 1st prosecution charges to come forth...it'll be a humbling step for the NCAA cartel.
 
I believe it was North Carolina State that had a student/fan start a Facebook group called "Come to North Carolina State, John Smith (or whatever the athlete's name was)". The student had to close the group, but he had like 700 student members or something like that. I wonder if that incident sparked this?...............
 
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I believe it was North Carolina State that had a student/fan start a Facebook group called "Come to North Carolina State, John Smith (or whatever the athlete's name was)". The student had to close the group, but he had like 700 student members or something like that. I wonder if that incident sparked this?...............
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I'm sure it did, but is this really any different then students swarming students when they're on official visits or the 8 trillion times they hear the same thing, in person? The NCAA is absolutely the most hypocritical organization on the face of the planet.
 
I don't think this will last long. If they really do start patrolling, a huge number of schools will be forced to punish themselves over this rediculous rule. I don't think it should be a rule in the first place, because the student-athlete can choose to ignore all of this completely.
 

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Ive read several places this will boil down to free speech. The NCAA wastes so much time in the wrong places.
 
here is a report that aired on indy channel 13 monday night.....

NCAA cracking down on web site posts

April 20, 2009 10:32 PM EST

The NCAA is keeping an eye on posts made on Facebook about potential recruits.

H.S. senior John Wall has been the target of several Facebook groups made by fans.

Twitter and blogs are also a topic of concern for the NCAA.

Lauren Geiger works in compliance for the IUPUI athletic department.

Richard Essex/Eyewitness News

Indianapolis - Sports fans are urged to be careful what they write about online - the NCAA has rules they may be breaking.

Fired Indiana University basketball coach Kelvin Sampson reached out to recruits by telephone. That's old school now.

"Twitter and as many as you can keep up with, it happens there," said Beth Goetz with the Butler University Athletic Department.

Facebook, Twitter, blogs and other social networking outlets are now all the rage as recruiting tools. But according to the NCAA, they are not allowed.

"I don't know that we have found anything just yet on Facebook," said Goetz.

But a quick look at the popular web site shows fans pledging their loyalty to just about every college basketball program out there. Some, the NCAA says, are going too far.

"We are not trying to limit anyone's free speech. Our students, I'm sure, want all sorts of different people to play basketball [or] soccer here," said Lauren Geiger, the compliance officer in IUPUI's athletic department.

And that is the problem. Students posting on Facebook, encouraging high school players and recruits to come to their school is a foul, according to the NCAA.

"The NCAA views it as intervening into the recruit's life and the NCAA views some of the technology, the text messaging, the IM, as intrusions and they want to be able to kind of protect the recruit's personal life," said Geiger.

Stuck in the middle are people like Geiger, who is tasked with policing Facebook, blogs, web sites and now Twitter for anything on the sites that advocates, encourages or helps draw attention to a recruit.

"They are trying to persuade a recruit a high school student to come to that school," Geiger said. "It is our responsibility to basically notify the creator of the site, so whoever is the administrator of that site, Facebook, for example, to basically issue a cease and desist order."

http://www.wthr.com/global/story.asp?s=10217812
 
That is absurd. Unless they have proof that the school and player are corresponding via the forum how can they do anything? Fans talking on the Internet should be treated no different than people talking in the streets.
 
I know some people will go too far and try to send a kid IM's or something like that, but how is it "interfering in the student's life..." to put a statement on a message board to the effect of, "...Come on down, Chris, you'll look great in Blue!!!"? Chances are the kid doesn't even know it's there, and he/she certainly doesn't have to go to those sites and read.

This is ridiculous...:censored:
 

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