Facebooking Recruits...OK or not?

[PANDFAN]

You should probably let Brian Kelly recruit him and stay out of this kid's life.

thanks daddy

 

[woolybug25]

thanks daddy

How many times do we have to listen to decommitted recruits talk about people bugging them on facebook before you guys quit "friending" 18 year old boys for your personal recruiting info?

I'm with jjsccer2, let Kelly do the recruiting.

 

[TerryTate]

Stop talking to him on Facebook. Jesus.

 

[ndcoltsfan2010]

Please for the love of god let BK and his staff recruit this kid as well as the others out there. There really is no need to befriend these kids and get involved. I am a huge Irish fan and love the recruiting game (well somewhat), but I cannot imagine ever trying to befriend a kid and try to influence his decision, because that is not my job and I don't feel that is the right way to do things. I guess I am a little old fashioned in some respects, but really?

 

[Cali_domer]

Let's not stalk t recruits, not saying you are it just ticks up the creepy factor a bit to be there "friends".

 

[Irish Insanity]

Y is being their facebook friend creepy? They all have thousands on there. Most of what they post isn't personal, but rather aimed at/to their fan base. PMing them or commenting colntinually on their status I could understand your point. But just being their facebook friend, I don't.

 

[PANDFAN]

You should probably let Brian Kelly recruit him and stay out of this kid's life.

How many times do we have to listen to decommitted recruits talk about people bugging them on facebook before you guys quit "friending" 18 year old boys for your personal recruiting info?

I'm with jjsccer2, let Kelly do the recruiting.

Stop talking to him on Facebook. Jesus.

Please for the love of god let BK and his staff recruit this kid as well as the others out there. There really is no need to befriend these kids and get involved. I am a huge Irish fan and love the recruiting game (well somewhat), but I cannot imagine ever trying to befriend a kid and try to influence his decision, because that is not my job and I don't feel that is the right way to do things. I guess I am a little old fashioned in some respects, but really?

Let's not stalk t recruits, not saying you are it just ticks up the creepy factor a bit to be there "friends".

Wow i didnt know i was recruiting him...just said heard you were going to visit USC and ND would love to have you there...that is no different than what everyone is posting on here is it??? facebook is a social network and it would be the same thing if the kid lived down the street from me and i saw him outside...no different...just i happen to be on the other coast...you guys get so damn worked up it's pathetic...i am not saying anything inappropriate or negative to him...now if i would have said...heard your taking a visit to the USC have fun there not going to classes, getting free cars etc then i could understand...i friend requested him...he had the choice to accept or not...i wrote to him on his wall...he had a choice to respond....

Y is being their facebook friend creepy? They all have thousands on there. Most of what they post isn't personal, but rather aimed at/to their fan base. PMing them or commenting colntinually on their status I could understand your point. But just being their facebook friend, I don't.

exactly and this is not towards you Mirish....how about the way people wrote stuff on here about Lynch??? Terry know you were one of them...so don't give me this B.S. and how i am somehow doing a diservice to ND and BK...because things that were stated negatively towards Lynch was being seen by his family and him...

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

Wow i didnt know i was recruiting him...just said heard you were going to visit USC and ND would love to have you there...that is no different than what everyone is posting on here is it??? facebook is a social network and it would be the same thing if the kid lived down the street from me and i saw him outside...no different...just i happen to be on the other coast...you guys get so damn worked up it's pathetic...i am not saying anything inappropriate or negative to him...now if i would have said...heard your taking a visit to the USC have fun there not going to classes, getting free cars etc then i could understand...i friend requested him...he had the choice to accept or not...i wrote to him on his wall...he had a choice to respond....




exactly

I can't believe this is still an issue. Stop contacting ND recruits for God's sake. This is so bad in so many ways. Haven't we all learned? Let the coaches do their jobs, leave the kids and their families alone to make their decision, and come here to state your opinions.

1) Creepy and unwarranted

2) Not your job

3) Your little messages or facebook posts on their wall...I know, I know, you get a little tickled because an All American is "talking" to you. Guess what...they don't give a rip about you or your opinion about their college choice.

4) Can you name one recruit who came out and said, "Yeah, one major factor in my decision was all the ND fans who wrote me facebook messages begging me to go there." NO. If anything, it's had a negative impact (prime example = chris martin).

Stoppppppp pleeeeeeeeeeeease you idiots

 

[OffensiveAssassin]

you guys get so damn worked up it's pathetic

More pathetic than posting on a recruits fb page? Yeah, ok.

I don't think it's that big of a deal but is certainly worthy of ridicule.

 

[Irish4Life09]

Stop talking to him on Facebook. Jesus.

Terry, I didn't realize Jesus used Facebook. Damn, I better friend his *** quick!!!

 

[TerryTate]

Wow i didnt know i was recruiting him...just said heard you were going to visit USC and ND would love to have you there...that is no different than what everyone is posting on here is it??? facebook is a social network and it would be the same thing if the kid lived down the street from me and i saw him outside...no different...just i happen to be on the other coast...you guys get so damn worked up it's pathetic...i am not saying anything inappropriate or negative to him...now if i would have said...heard your taking a visit to the USC have fun there not going to classes, getting free cars etc then i could understand...i friend requested him...he had the choice to accept or not...i wrote to him on his wall...he had a choice to respond....




exactly and this is not towards you Mirish....how about the way people wrote stuff on here about Lynch??? Terry know you were one of them...so don't give me this B.S. and how i am somehow doing a diservice to ND and BK...because things that were stated negatively towards Lynch was being seen by his family and him...

Uh... I was not one to bash him. If you can find it, let me know. I merely showed Ms. Lynch the graduation rates.

You can be friends with him, but, personally, I don't want someone directly contacting a potential Notre Dame recruit. I see very little to gain and a lot to lose by this. I have facebook, I know what it's used for, I know what a "social network" is. I still don't go around talking to people I will never meet in real life or try to influence kids to come to Notre Dame to play football.

 

[woolybug25]

Wow i didnt know i was recruiting him...just said heard you were going to visit USC and ND would love to have you there...that is no different than what everyone is posting on here is it??? facebook is a social network and it would be the same thing if the kid lived down the street from me and i saw him outside...no different...just i happen to be on the other coast...you guys get so damn worked up it's pathetic...i am not saying anything inappropriate or negative to him...now if i would have said...heard your taking a visit to the USC have fun there not going to classes, getting free cars etc then i could understand...i friend requested him...he had the choice to accept or not...i wrote to him on his wall...he had a choice to respond....

It's nothing like seeing him walking down the road and striking up conversation. Its more like standing outside of his house waiting for him to start walking to school. You sought him out out facebook, friended him, and are now prodding him on his commitment status. It's pathetic, frankly. Your comment to him isnt what everyone finds so disturbing, the fact that you are going around "friending" 18 year recruits in order to talk to them is what everyone finds appalling.

Quit "friending" recruits
Quit "writing on their wall"
Quit being a turd.

 

[rtrn2glory]

It's nothing like seeing him walking down the road and striking up conversation. Its more like standing outside of his house waiting for him to start walking to school. You sought him out out facebook, friended him, and are now prodding him on his commitment status. It's pathetic, frankly. Your comment to him isnt what everyone finds so disturbing, the fact that you are going around "friending" 18 year recruits in order to talk to them is what everyone finds appalling.

Quit "friending" recruits
Quit "writing on their wall"
Quit being a turd.

He isn't doing anything worse than the Adam Schefter, Chris Mortenson, and John Claytons of the world...just getting the inside scoop.

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

He isn't doing anything worse than the Adam Schefter, Chris Mortenson, and John Claytons of the world...just getting the inside scoop.

Bull.

1) for those guys, it's their job and they are paid to report

2) they have friends in the nfl and actually know the people personally

3) schefter, mortenson, and clayton don't go around trying to convince or persuade people to do anything

Apples and oranges, my friend

 

[Irish Insanity]

For the record my comments were in defense of friending people on facebook which I believe is ok. However, in no way to I support writing on their wall, private messaging them, or posting responses to their status. If they felt it was not acceptable they wouldn't have a accept the thousands of friend requests they did. And not everyone friends these 18 yr olds to communicate with them.

 

[rtrn2glory]

Bull.

1) for those guys, it's their job and they are paid to report

2) they have friends in the nfl and actually know the people personally

3) schefter, mortenson, and clayton don't go around trying to convince or persuade people to do anything

Apples and oranges, my friend

disagree...they're no more entitled to be nosy than anybody else regardless of who they know. the kid doesn't have to respond to anybody, he shouldn't have a facebook profile if he doesn't want ppl bothering him...i'm not saying i would do it, but if you're going to have a facebook you better be prepared to have ppl ask questions.

 

[woolybug25]

He isn't doing anything worse than the Adam Schefter, Chris Mortenson, and John Claytons of the world...just getting the inside scoop.

Well, once ESPN starts paying him to prod recruits, I will retract my statements. Until then, I will stand by my statement that grown men with no relationship with the football team, press or the university should be stalking down recruits on facebook.

 

[FightingIrishLover7]

I see nothing wrong with "friending" players.

They have the ability to make their profiles completely private and deny friend requests. They can have their privacy if they chose to have it.

So if a player accepts a random friend request, that tells me they want to build up an early fan following.

I personally haven't sent any requests, put I have looked at public profiles of some of the recruits. And I would never contact a player and try to convince him to go to ND, because I don't know the player or his desires.

I think you people just need to get with the times, if recruits want privacy they can have it...

I actually think some recruits love the attention. It helps them feel like part of the community.

Facebook is an exceelent way of getting to know recruits, plus its free and lowers the dictating powers of pricey recruiting websites.

Just my two cents, maybe its because I'm younger and grew up in the internet era.

 

[TerryTate]

Friending is different from messaging/contacting. That's my point

 

[rtrn2glory]

Well, once ESPN starts paying him to prod recruits, I will retract my statements. Until then, I will stand by my statement that grown men with no relationship with the football team, press or the university should be stalking down recruits on facebook.

Yeah, Well, You know, thats like.... your opinion, man.

 

[PANDFAN]

Uh... I was not one to bash him. If you can find it, let me know. I merely showed Ms. Lynch the graduation rates.

You can be friends with him, but, personally, I don't want someone directly contacting a potential Notre Dame recruit. I see very little to gain and a lot to lose by this. I have facebook, I know what it's used for, I know what a "social network" is. I still don't go around talking to people I will never meet in real life or try to influence kids to come to Notre Dame to play football.

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Lynch ACT Scores

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Per Rivals board, Quote from Facebook

"Aaron TheBeast Lynch Only an 18 but it went up from what i had and it went up 6 points!"


Not sure he would have been able to handle the classroom. He had a 12 when he got into ND.

I didn't take the ACT, so I don't know what this translates to. Just seems a bit ... low.

wow look at that...Rivals took a quote from Facebook! Im sure the not sure he would have been able to handle the classroom wasn't a dig...because in other posts you talk about how ND will do anything to help a student athlete thrive and graduate...regardless...i have my opinion, you have yours along with everyone...i was merely putting it out there about some information he said...but with that being said...i don't want this to continue to be about Facebook but rather George! since this is his thread in a social network known as a forum

 

[woolybug25]

WHOOOHOOO!!!

INTERNET FIGHT!!!!

INTERNET FIGHT!!!

INTERNET FIGHT!!!


What?.... you were thinking it too...

 

[TerryTate]

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Lynch ACT Scores

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Per Rivals board, Quote from Facebook

"Aaron TheBeast Lynch Only an 18 but it went up from what i had and it went up 6 points!"


Not sure he would have been able to handle the classroom. He had a 12 when he got into ND.

I didn't take the ACT, so I don't know what this translates to. Just seems a bit ... low.

wow look at that...Rivals took a quote from Facebook! Im sure the not sure he would have been able to handle the classroom wasn't a dig...because in other posts you talk about how ND will do anything to help a student athlete thrive and graduate...regardless...i have my opinion, you have yours along with everyone...i was merely putting it out there about some information he said...but with that being said...i don't want this to continue to be about Facebook but rather George! since this is his thread in a social network known as a forum

So... I didn't bash him?

 

[rtrn2glory]

I'm lost...

 

[Irish Insanity]

Well, once ESPN starts paying him to prod recruits, I will retract my statements. Until then, I will stand by my statement that grown men with no relationship with the football team, press or the university should be stalking down recruits on facebook.

I'm sure the thousands of people who have befriended him disagree.

 

[Irish Insanity]

Friending is different from messaging/contacting. That's my point

Now that I completely agree with.

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

disagree...they're no more entitled to be nosy than anybody else regardless of who they know. the kid doesn't have to respond to anybody, he shouldn't have a facebook profile if he doesn't want ppl bothering him...i'm not saying i would do it, but if you're going to have a facebook you better be prepared to have ppl ask questions.

they sure as hell do. i don't know how old you are or if you can't understand it, but for the espn guys it's their JOB! career. how they earn a living, pay for a house and a car, take care of their families. espn reporters getting info from their nfl sources is COMPLETELY different than some random dude on facebook with too much time on his hands trying to persuade or convince a 17 or 18 year old kid to attend a certain school.

i don't blame the kid here. he's 17. they all have facebook. so do I. I'm 25. but being a grown man/ adult and contacting recruits is stupid and does NO GOOD. leave em alone.

 

[woolybug25]

I'm sure the thousands of people who have befriended him disagree.

Like I care what a thousand window-lickers think....


For the record, its the contacting that concerns me more than anything. I personally wouldnt "friend" a commit, but I dont play Dungeons and Dragons either. If frantically searching for 17-18 year old boys to contact on facebook is someone's thing, then go for it. To each their own.

 

[jmurphy75]

There is a huge difference between friending and contacting a recruit, like I've said before your life must be pretty sad that you have to start communicating with potential recruits on facebook. What do you get from it? the ability to call yourself cool because you sent an 18 year old kid a message about his commitment? Really.....leave them alone, have some class and just because there are other idiots doing it doesn't mean you have the right to

 

[rtrn2glory]

they sure as hell do. i don't know how old you are or if you can't understand it, but for the espn guys it's their JOB! career. how they earn a living, pay for a house and a car, take care of their families. espn reporters getting info from their nfl sources is COMPLETELY different than some random dude on facebook with too much time on his hands trying to persuade or convince a 17 or 18 year old kid to attend a certain school.

i don't blame the kid here. he's 17. they all have facebook. so do I. I'm 25. but being a grown man/ adult and contacting recruits is stupid and does NO GOOD. leave em alone.

You're telling me that just because it's your "career" you have the right to start rumors and gossip about the future of whomever whether it's a college kid or a professional? You're Nuts!! Being 25 doesn't make you a grown man by any counts, you're still a kid too boss.

I'll give credit where credits do those guys do a great job, but saying they've got just as much right to do it is crazy. I have a 17 year old brother, he doesn't have facebook he respects his own privacy so I don't feel bad or blame the kid at all if he wants his personal info. published more power to him, but once again he better be prepared to answer some ridicous junk....that's the bottom line and again I don't agree with it, but it's his choice.