The ban of text messaging by coaches to players is a fair and just rule that the NCAA plans to uphold. If text messaging was not banned by the NCAA then coaches would be constantly on their recruits. I have a friend who was being recruited when text messaging was a legal form of recruitment. I remember him coming out of school at the end of the day checking his phone and having fifteen new text messages all from college football coaches recruiting him. It’s funny that he always complained to me about how much they were always on him but the year after he went to school the NCAA bans text messaging. Text messaging by coaches was too much. The phone calls that these athletes have are plenty to handle along with their schoolwork and practices trying to finish the last year or two of high school that they have. Text messaging is the one form of media that I disagree with in college football recruiting.
NCAA to keep text messaging ban in place (article on ESPN)
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=2967872
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Kyle: Good column. That text message bill really was a hardship on a lot of parents of athletes who were just scraping by. Plus they were a distraction. I'm glad they were banned. Hank Nuwer
I believe that text messaging should be ban too. Does not being able to text message recruits hurt smaller programs?
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