Text messaging in Recruiting--Banned

[MililaniBuckeye]

A member of the coaching staff should be allowed one text message per day...that is, not each member but one member. For example, if Fickell texted Pryor today, no one else on the staff (including Tressel) could text him until tomorrow. The only exception to the "one text per day" rule would be to return a text from that prospect.

 

[Redhawk]

I must be getting old. I remember the days when people had to communicate by email. :)

 

[goodguy]

A member of the coaching staff should be allowed one text message per day...that is, not each member but one member. For example, if Fickell texted Pryor today, no one else on the staff (including Tressel) could text him until tomorrow. The only exception to the "one text per day" rule would be to return a text from that prospect.

Uhhh how do you do this. Have a schedule up on a dry erase board displaying which coach is allowed to make the one text message for each day. I think the coaching staff has more important things to do. Dumb idea!

 

[wadc45]

Mili must not have seen that response...

ESPN - Katz: Coaches debate hoops issues - Men's College Basketball

By Andy Katz
ESPN.com

Updated: August 22, 2007


ORLANDO, Fla. -- The NCAA board of directors' decision earlier this month to continue the ban on text messaging was expected, even though the decision was sent back to the NCAA membership for review.


The immediate reaction amongst coaches, however, was that they had to go back to the dark ages of e-mails, handwritten letters and even, gasp, phone calls. Assistants and younger head coaches are still adamant that text messaging is the way to go to communicate with today's youth.

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