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It's a gray area until the NCAA decides to take action. This is the NCAA - are you people actually expecting them to act rationally? If so... what color are the skies in your world?

Nebraska, if you don't already know, is on probation right now. Another violation makes us a repeat offender. Do you really want to be the guy who puts us there? Do you really want to leave that decision in the hands of the NCAA?

Just knock it off. Leave the kid alone and let him make his decision.

I don't care how "normal" you think this is right now. 10 years from now, accepted mode of communication or not, you're going to look back on this and be embarrassed.

 
knapplc said:
It's a gray area until the NCAA decides to take action. This is the NCAA - are you people actually expecting them to act rationally? If so... what color are the skies in your world?

Nebraska, if you don't already know, is on probation right now. Another violation makes us a repeat offender. Do you really want to be the guy who puts us there? Do you really want to leave that decision in the hands of the NCAA?

Just knock it off. Leave the kid alone and let him make his decision.

I don't care how "normal" you think this is right now. 10 years from now, accepted mode of communication or not, you're going to look back on this and be embarrassed.
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what is the rule exactly? it seems awfully broad. so anyone who talks to a recruit about going anywhere becomes a booster and violates this rule? what about recruits talking to each other?

this is only creepy if it is unilateral communication, then i would say it is harassment. but if they are conversing, what is wrong with that?

let the ncaa make this an issue. i would love to see that.

 
HuskerThor said:
Army_Allen said:
I was enlisted in the Army and did a tour in Afghanistan before I was 19. But I'm young and a social networking junky, so I can relate to the fact that he had a big decision in his life ahead of him and wanted to let him know that husker nation wanted him here, he DM'ed me first though after my first tweet or so and let me know he didn't have many Husker fans as followers. He was bummed by that after visiting and seeing all the fans. Same with Johnny Stanton. He even asked me if I was planning on coming to Nebraska to play. The last tweet I sent him was in frustration of us not ending up in his top six. Michael Rose was another guy who followed me and tweeted me fairly often during his recruitment. It's not weird, it's a younger generation of people who use this outlet as a new means of communication. But thanks for the appreciation Thor, we fight for you to have your opinion.
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Lick me where I pee.
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Lick a f'ing dirty a-hole you cum guzzler. You prolly have fowler dropping them arabian goggles on you so you don't have to see me tweeting kids.

 
Army_Allen said:
Oh shut up. Don't be mad you don't get to have convo's with recruits because you're too damn old to get the lingo. #Boom
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knapplc said:
It's a gray area until the NCAA decides to take action. This is the NCAA - are you people actually expecting them to act rationally? If so... what color are the skies in your world?

Nebraska, if you don't already know, is on probation right now. Another violation makes us a repeat offender. Do you really want to be the guy who puts us there? Do you really want to leave that decision in the hands of the NCAA?

Just knock it off. Leave the kid alone and let him make his decision.

I don't care how "normal" you think this is right now. 10 years from now, accepted mode of communication or not, you're going to look back on this and be embarrassed.
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what is the rule exactly? it seems awfully broad. so anyone who talks to a recruit about going anywhere becomes a booster and violates this rule? what about recruits talking to each other?

this is only creepy if it is unilateral communication, then i would say it is harassment. but if they are conversing, what is wrong with that?

let the ncaa make this an issue. i would love to see that.
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done some research, they have made this an issue, kind of. i still say it is different for private people, but the ncaa is pretty stupid.

Keeping up with Twitter

First things first. Michigan, Notre Dame and Tennessee, as a result of recent recruiting missteps committed on Twitter by four football players, are not going on probation.Well, Michigan is already on probation, but that's another story that involves a three-year mess, otherwise known as Rich Rodriguez's stint in Ann Arbor.

The actions of Notre Dame's Tyler Eifert, Justin Meredith of Tennessee and Michigan linebackerKenny Demens and receiver Roy Roundtree won't jeopardize their programs' postseason eligibility. The schools will not lose scholarships because of what happened.

At worst, we're talking about secondary violations, which are commonplace and usually amount to little. Demens and Roundtree sent congratulations over Twitter to Mike McCray after the Trotwood-Madison (Ohio) ESPNU Watch List linebacker committed to the Wolverines on March 6.
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Green, a top recruit in 2011 out of San Antonio, likes to display pride for Texas and his hometown through social media. He offers wishes of luck to his former prep teammates and friends back home.Three months ago, Nebraska quarterback pledge Tommy Armstrong of Cibolo, Texas, led Steele High School to a berth in a Texas 5A state title game at Cowboys Stadium. Green had met Armstrong more than a year earlier, introduced by Texas running back Malcolm Brown, Green's friend and then a high school teammate of Armstrong.

Yet Green couldn't tweet support to Armstrong if the message was suggestive about recruiting. And the NCAA definition of recruiting, while open to interpretation, is broad.

Most schools educate their athletes on the pitfalls of social media, but Green said no one at Nebraska told him to stay away from issuing a tweet about Armstrong.

"You've just got to be smart," he said.
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Watch That Tweet! N.C.A.A., Colleges Wrestle With Social Media Recruiting Rules

He offers up the example of Taylor Moseley, a freshman at North Carolina State University who was a fan of the men’s basketball team and created a Facebook group called “John Wall PLEASE come to NC STATE!!!!” As a nearby star high school basketball player, Wall was considering offers from a variety of august college teams.The N.C.A.A., according to Broccoli, did not appreciate the gesture, and informed N.C. State that the Facebook group violated rules regarding college recruitment.

“It’s absolutely absurd,” Broccoli says, “the idea that a Taylor Moseley or other regular fans that would post groups on Facebook, that they’re bearing the imprimatur of the university and that is going to be somehow determinative in where the athlete is going to commit to matters. It’s more an expression of fanhood.”
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the ncaa has no idea what it needs to do, but then again they are the ones who put a school on probation for giving student-athletes 'too' many books.

also, if that recruit thought army allen was being creepy, he could have just blocked him.

 
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I would like to rescind my comments above. I have MORE RESPECT than that for a service man. I was out of line.

I just hope that this stuff doesn't bite us in the a$$ some day.

 
HuskerThor said:
I would like to rescind my comments above. I have MORE RESPECT than that for a service man. I was out of line.

I just hope that this stuff doesn't bite us in the a$$ some day.
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It wont. We're not even close to the only program that has fans that do this. Like I said. The NCAA would be opening a pandora's box of unprecedented bullsh#t if they decided to crash down on a program for this sh#t.

 
Army_Allen said:
I was enlisted in the Army and did a tour in Afghanistan before I was 19. But I'm young and a social networking junky, so I can relate to the fact that he had a big decision in his life ahead of him and wanted to let him know that husker nation wanted him here, he DM'ed me first though after my first tweet or so and let me know he didn't have many Husker fans as followers. He was bummed by that after visiting and seeing all the fans. Same with Johnny Stanton. He even asked me if I was planning on coming to Nebraska to play. The last tweet I sent him was in frustration of us not ending up in his top six. Michael Rose was another guy who followed me and tweeted me fairly often during his recruitment. It's not weird, it's a younger generation of people who use this outlet as a new means of communication. But thanks for the appreciation Thor, we fight for you to have your opinion.
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