Recruiting Idea

RamoneArchie · April 19, 2007

One word. Well, it's actually two words put together with a "dot com" at the end. I'm refering to myspace.com. I actually had this thought a while ago and I was just wondering what you guys thought about it. We've all, of course, heard of myspace. It has to be one of the most popular sights out there today. I was wondering if UNT, or any other university, could set up a UNT Recruiting page. When I was out recruiting last Spring and Fall, I heard myspace come up alot. Kids would joke around and say, "well hit me up on myspace." I never did, but it got me to thinking. This would be a great forum to send out mass information to potential recruits. Everyone has one, all you have to do is add them as a friend. I mean, you could send personal comments to them on their pages, send out mass bulletins to let them know what's going on in the Mean Green world. It sounds like a good idea to me, but i'm not sure if any rules would be broken. We are allowed to send emails and letters during certain time periods, so this should be good. I come to this forum because I know there are some good reasons to why this isn't a good idea, I just can't think of any. So let me have it.

eppy4life · April 19, 2007

Could this be included in the text messaging rule? If not I say go for it.

Mean Green 93-98 · April 19, 2007

Sounds like a good idea if it doesn't break NCAA regs. But I would be surprised if it didn't.

untbowler · April 19, 2007

thought there was an issue with a Kentucky B-Ball recruit a year or so ago with fans/alums posting to the recruit several times. I would need to check.

This would be borderline but the NCAA is so far behind technology right now. <_<

RamoneArchie · April 19, 2007

Sounds like a good idea if it doesn't break NCAA regs. But I would be surprised if it didn't.

I don't think it does, yet. Like I said there's a period where emails are legal to send. I did just read that they might be getting rid of text messages in basketball, this could be included to. The good thing is noone has done it, to my knowledge.

RamoneArchie · April 19, 2007

thought there was an issue with a Kentucky B-Ball recruit a year or so ago with fans/alums posting to the recruit several times. I would need to check.
This would be borderline but the NCAA is so far behind technology right now.

I was really talking about the actual programs themselves setting this up. Then I start to think about it and that could get crazy. I mean anyone could set up an account and pretend to be a University. Yeah, on second thought maybe not too bueno. Definately wouldn't be good for boosters to get a page or even fans like us. Okay, never mind. See I knew there was something bad about the idea.

Varsity · April 19, 2007

It's called ADVERTISING.

And with all the traffic they get on that site I don't think it's a bad idea at all. You'd need to figure a way to get people to the site so that they actually see it, otherwise they'll shoot right by it.

H-towngreen · April 19, 2007

At first after reading your post thought that was a good idea, and would prolly count as an email per NCAA. But then again that would be like giving away a recruits personal info to anyone who wanted it. Now if say TD or one of the assistants were to do this in a more discreet way....it might work. Not too many people are going to be looking up a NT ass. coach on myspace to add them as a friend.

Charlie NT 73 · April 19, 2007

Run this idea by the athletic department-

I think this would be a good way to contact recruits and regular students-

greenminer · April 19, 2007

Some organizations/institutions have already set this up. I've known for a few months that Doc Sadler had his own page (bball coach @ Nebraska). After doing a search for "coach", these are some of the pages I've found. There are tons out there:

Pac10 football: http://www.myspace.com/pacific10football

"Official Nebraska Site for Nebraska": http://www.myspace.com/husker32

Big12 Conference: http://www.myspace.com/big12conference

Doc Sadler's page: http://www.myspace.com/59131795

Some are fan pages. Some really do look like official pages. Make your own judgements.

AJR2010OX · April 19, 2007

Actually, I'd much rather see recruiting done on facebook. As a person whose had both facebook and myspace, I'd say facebook would be the better route to recruit with.

With it, you could make events and invite potential recruits and see whose on tap for attending. Theres a bunch of other reasons why facebook would be a better route to recruit with then myspace, but I'm about to head off to class and cannot think right now haha.

Some organizations/institutions have already set this up. I've known for a few months that Doc Sadler had his own page (bball coach @ Nebraska). After doing a search for "coach", these are some of the pages I've found. There are tons out there:
Pac10 football: http://www.myspace.com/pacific10football
"Official Nebraska Site for Nebraska": http://www.myspace.com/husker32
Big12 Conference: http://www.myspace.com/big12conference
Doc Sadler's page: http://www.myspace.com/59131795
Some are fan pages. Some really do look like official pages. Make your own judgements.

April 19, 2007

Unless and until the NCAA changes the regulations, I'd think that YouTube would be perfectly legal.

Part of the flack about text messaging is that it costs the recruit. Time is charged to the receiver as well as the sender. If a dozen colleges are after a particular recruit, he could have mega-minutes of time charged to his cell phone daily. I see YouTube as being voluntary on the recruit's part. However, it can't be as personal.

Would a recruiting website be enough alike text messaging to be included in the ban? What about e-mails? It seems that those should be okay because the recruit would need to initiate the chatroom and would have the ability to reject an e-mail without incurring any cost. (Well, it might cost a few seconds to delete the post).

The NCAA can never outthink technology so they will just have to limit personal contact by whatever means during certain periods and prohibit contact which could be costly to the recruit. Recruits would have to initiate contact during certain periods. That should close about all of the loopholes.