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Interesting because a standard defintion of a "Booster" is as follows:


1. You have ever participated in <name> University Athletics.
2. You have made financial contributions to the athletic programs.
3. You have been asked by athletic department staff to assist in recruiting.
4. You have assisted or are providing benefits (ie. summer jobs, or occasional family
meals) to enrolled Student Athletes.
5. You have otherwise been involved in promoting <name> Athletics in any way.​
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It is in that last definition that the Jeb Bush text message may fall.

Besides which wouldn't the student body at U of Florida and UM (among others now) have an even more legitimate beef that Jeb is seen to be steering Rolle one way instead of the other(s)?
 
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1. You have ever participated in <name> University Athletics.
2. You have made financial contributions to the athletic programs.
3. You have been asked by athletic department staff to assist in recruiting.
4. You have assisted or are providing benefits (ie. summer jobs, or occasional family
meals) to enrolled Student Athletes.
5. You have otherwise been involved in promoting <name> Athletics in any way.</name></name>
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i would say as the govenor and this being a state institution you would be in violation of #2...
but the thing is text messages dont have good defined definitions.
 
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ohiostate=life said:
Nowhere does it say they can't be contacted by boosters or fans. They can talk all they want they just can't except gifts or money. All he did was send him a text message.
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For somebody like you or me, then "all he did was send him a text message" applies. But if the Governor of the state does it, you don't think that's a little out of line? There's a reason former players can't talk to recruits...it should be the same with celebrities too.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
For somebody like you or me, then "all he did was send him a text message" applies. But if the Governor of the state does it, you don't think that's a little out of line? There's a reason former players can't talk to recruits...it should be the same with celebrities too.
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If a player can get into trouble for taking money from me OR a booster just the same, then we must all be in the same league. Yes it sounds goofy but the rules don't discriminate one class of people and not another. Until he gives him something and it is accepted, he's done nothing "wrong".
 
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Did not know where else to put this. From the Gator boards. Good ol boys being good ol boys...

Gov. Jeb Bush helped FSU persuade a high school player to sign with the school.

Emily Badger | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted February 4, 2006

TALLAHASSEE -- Florida State may be facing a secondary NCAA violation -- one that would warrant essentially a slap on the wrist from the governing body -- after Gov. Jeb Bush delivered a favor to university President T.K. Wetherell.

Bush admitted this week to sending a message to New Jersey high school football player Myron Rolle, the top-rated recruit in the country according to some services, encouraging him to come to the Sunshine State. And, more specifically, Florida State.

And now -- with Rolle already on campus -- the university is preparing to send an explanation to the NCAA.

"The NCAA is aware of the situation and has been in contact with Florida State University," the NCAA said in a statement. "We are waiting for the university to submit information, and we will analyze it to determine if any violations occurred."

Bush went on the defensive this week -- not because he may have cost FSU a finger wag from the NCAA but because he appeared to show the school favor when FSU wasn't the only state football power recruiting Rolle.

"The mistake I made was listening to the president of FSU say that [Rolle] was being recruited by Stanford, Duke, Notre Dame, Michigan," Bush said this week. "He failed to mention that he was also being recruited by the University of Florida and the University of Miami. So I would have done the exact same thing for the Gators and for the Hurricanes, I promise you.

"Truth be known, I'm a Hurricane fan," Bush said.

Bush several times this week referred to Rolle as a potential Rhodes scholar, suggesting that he was worth luring to the state as much for his academic promise as his football talent.

That angle could figure in FSU's defense to the NCAA.
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Bush several times this week referred to Rolle as a potential Rhodes scholar, suggesting that he was worth luring to the state as much for his academic promise as his football talent.

That angle could figure in FSU's defense to the NCAA.
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Yeah, like Bowden was interested in Rolle purely for his academic ability. :roll1:
 
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