Once again TPO addressed fans being fools for trying to recruit.
It's not about generational acceptance, social mores, evolution, or society adapting to technology. Fans FOLLOW recruiting, they don't recruit. In the article you linked fans were not contacting prospects by 800 or 900 numbers, now they do. This isn't about technology. It's not about changing the salesmen's tool (technology). It's about changing the salesmen. School do not want "fans", be they well intentioned true fans or malicious trolls contacting prospects and urinating in the soup.
The NCAA regs which are compiled by its member organizations through the Rules Committee and the school's voting on prosposed regulations restrict recruiting to the head coach and the 9 assistant (position) coaches certified by the NCAA to recruit. The Director of Player Personnel who makes the travel arrangements for official visits, expedites videos, transcripts, etc can't recruit nor can the strength coach can't recruit and they're professionals.
Fans contacting prospects to recruit are either fools or provocateurs.
I elaborate on nearly every topic? There are thousands of threads I've never commented on here and quite a few that I don't even read. I average 6 posts a day, some posters here average 15 posts a day. Some of my posts can be hundreds of words while others are only a couple of words. The topics are usually the same. I post mainly in ND Football and ND Recruiting. Looking at the last 100 threads in each of those two forums, I've got posts in about 35% of the ND football threads and 25% of the recruiting threads. Hardly every topic, is it?
In your words, let me say it again. I agreed with TOPs statement, you can now cease with the reiterating.
My expansion on the topic IS about generational acceptance, social norms, evolution and technology. The future recruits growing up now will not know recruiting life before Twitter. They will encounter fans recruiting them, whether it be in appropriate fashion or not and it will not seem as wrong to them as it does to TPO, you or myself. It's happening before your very eyes.
A fan reaching out to a recruit through social media, with the intent of recruiting, will never seem right to me but I'm sure a teenager 10 years from now will venture to argue otherwise.
I will always believe fans should remain clear of the inner circle of recruiting but with the emergence of paid sites, Facebook, Twitter and whatever the next intrusive media outlet becomes, I do not think it will be that way.
So to wrap it up for you:
1) I agreed with TPOs statement.
2) I further expanded with my own thoughts. How dare I.
3) I respect everyone on here for the most part, including you, but you missed my point.
Are you finished?
