To Tweet Or Not To Tweet

I think the younger you are it's not "creepy," it's just a bad idea. Someone ten years older than these recruits/players shouldn't be tweeting at them or begging them for follows. That IS creepy.

One caveat to that - if you know the person in real life, it's not creepy regardless of your age.

 
OMG....Don't you dare question if someone should tweet recruits that they don't personally know. That's how you get entire threads in the Woodshed with your name in the title.

 
BigRedBuster said:
OMG....Don't you dare question if someone should tweet recruits that they don't personally know. That's how you get entire threads in the Woodshed with your name in the title.
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This little b!^@h just won't let it go. Can I rescind a nomination?

 
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Mavric said:
People are arguing two different points - is it "legal" vs. will you get punished.

Since everyone likes the analogies, here's one: If you go out on the highway and drive 100 mph but don't get pulled over, does that mean it's fine to drive that fast or did you just get away with it? If you keep doing that will it increase the chances that you will get caught?
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Is every other driver on the road also driving 100 mph?

 
Following is one thing, which isn't creepy. But actually tweeting them, and basically slobbing on their knob about how much we love them, or want them is a little creepy.

 
I get what you're saying Knap, but tbh, it's for the most part cool just getting to know the recruits better than just their name and jersey number. Just think of how friggen nuts the Peters' bros. Twitters woulda been. I've followed the Huskers since I was young young young... I remember watching the 97 championship game at like 5 or 6 while my brother was born and that was crazy and cool and new in itself, but I never knew anything about the players. So for me and why I do tweet them (current,recruits,former) is because one, it's pretty sweet getting to say, "Hey look, Ahman Green is following me on twitter!". And two, you learn that really, they're college kids just like myself who happen to play for my favorite team and that people I idolized growing up like the things I do.

People don't make twitters if they didn't want people to follow, retweet and have quick conversations with people, that's the intent. But if people quiet the hell down about the creeper sh#t (I mean if that case, whoever got my tweets musta went super creeper on me to read all a normal non-famous dudes tweets lol), I won't tweet recruits any longer as I don't want to add to any reason for the NCAA to jump on us. Although I feel that the rules with Tweeting recruits from fans will change before long.

 
knapplc said:
And since we know that members of the UNL Athletic Dept. frequent these boards, and it's possible one, under some user name, has access to the Shed, they may know now that Army_Allen has been tweeting recruits on behalf of Nebraska.
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I have, I believe, moved every post about the tweeting issue from HuskerBoard vs. Hedley to this thread.

You're welcome, HuskerBoard vs. Hedley purists.

 
QMany said:
Dimarya Mixon - February 1

Dolla Bill!!!!! ‏@Dmixon52They showing me allot of love on twitter:)
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That happens to be the day he decommitted from Missouri.
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EXACTLY! +1

Most of these recruits like being tweeted stuff like, "Hey, my team would love to have you."

In fact, didn't Priest Willis say that he wasn't getting a lot of tweets from Nebraska fans, implying that he didn't feel as wanted here as other places?...

Yes, going overboard with it is pretty creepy. But one simple tweet saying something along the lines of the quote above is actually very helpful and is part of being a fan. And no, I do not have twitter.

 
HuskerShark said:
But one simple tweet saying something along the lines of the quote above is actually very helpful and is part of being a fan.
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No, it isn't. It makes you a booster, and you're committing an NCAA violation on behalf of your school.

But don't believe me. Five other Compliance officers from five other schools have weighed in since yesterday. Their responses:



knapplc,



It is not permissible for anyone other than the respective coaching staffs to communicate through any medium (i.e. Facebook, twitter, phone calls) with potential recruits for Clemson University’s athletic programs. Fans should not interact with recruits via twitter, Facebook or any other form of social media.



Please let me know if you have any additional questions for me, and thank you for bringing this question to the Compliance Department.







Andy Campbell

Compliance Coordinator

Clemson University

Jervey Athletic Center

PO Box 31

Clemson, SC 29633



Hi knapplc,

A booster may not interact with prospects on social media. Recruiting is supposed to be done by athletics staff members only and the NCAA considers contacting prospects in any form (email, social media, in person, etc.) as recruiting.

Thanks for asking and let me know if you have further questions.

-Dustin

Dustin M. Gray

Assistant Athletics Director for Compliance

Iowa State University

1800 S. Fourth, Jacobson Bldg Ames, IA 50011



No, it would not be permissible. Only coaches should be contacting prospects.

***Note - this response came from Lance Troester, Compliance officer at Oklahoma State. Submitted as received.



Hi there,

Thank you for your email. In general, it is NOT permissible for fans to interact with non-signed recruits via any social media sites, especially if the person trying to contact the recruit is a booster for that University. Since the NCAA has no way to discipline the fans, the punishment then falls on the recruit and the school.

Please let me know if you have any other questions and thank you for asking!

--

Danielle Berish Charters | Compliance Coordinator

Boise State University

GO BRONCOS!



Hi knapplc,



CU boosters and fans need to be careful of their interactions with recruits on social media websites. The NCAA holds all institutions responsible for their fan’s actions in regards to recruits and social media.



Please do not use Twitter, Facebook or other websites to contact CU recruits. Creating fan pages, groups or starting trends in order to recruit someone to CU is impermissible. Even though a recruit has verbally committed to CU, they should not be mentioned via social media until l they actually sign a National Letter of Intent to attend CU.



Please be mindful of your actions on social media websites. We want to protect the eligibility of CU recruits and future Buffs!



Thanks,



Kevin



Kevin T. Prochaska

Associate Director of Compliance

University of Colorado |369 UCB | Boulder, CO 80309



Not sure how I feel about being confused with a CU booster or fan on that last one, but the point cannot be hammered home enough for our slower members here. It is not, not, not OK to tweet recruits.

It's not OK.

It's not part of being a fan.

It's not normal.

It's a violation of NCAA rules.

You can get your school in trouble.

You should not do this.

I can keep emailing Compliance departments from schools across the country and keep posting their responses here if I need to.

I think I will, in fact. Every time some nitwit says "It's OK, it's part of being a fan, the recruits like it" I'll email another Compliance office and post their response.

 
I don't really have a dog in this fight, since I don't tweet recruits (and don't think it's a very good idea). BUT, I don't think the NCAA has set any policy aimed directly at tweeting---have they? It just seems to me there's a big difference between tweeting some recruit, and other (forbidden) types of booster interaction. A tweet seems more akin to yelling out a recruits name as he comes out of the tunnel. It's just a (mostly) anonymous communication. And the likelihood of harm seems minimal. If a particular person bugs a recruit with tweets, they can simply be blocked.

As for the compliance officers, of course they have to give this answer. It's a gray area right now. They can't give the appearance of supporting this. In case the NCAA ever gets their act together and drops the hammer on recruit tweeters.

Carry on.

 
And ripped from today's headlines, a player asks for people NOT to tweet him about things that could be NCAA violations. So when we start saying, "They like it," we need to pare that broad brush down a bit. Not all of these guys like it, and not all of these guys are willing to flout NCAA rules.

@AFRO_THUNDER80

Please people, stop tweeting me about things you want me to support. NCAA rules won't allow me to use my status to support things.

 
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