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RP_McMurphy
01-13-2008, 11:16 AM
If the NCAA has all it's mental facilities in order. Ok we all agree that text messaging can become irritating at times. My point has always been a total ban makes no sense. What if a recruit only wants texting messages instead of phone calls? By enacting a total ban is not the NCAA affecting that recruits freedom of speech? This has lawsuit written all over it.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=3193796&campaign=rss&source=NCFHeadlines
matt colvin
01-13-2008, 11:19 AM
Oh well. Add this to a number of NCAA oddities.

Tough part is that our Coach liked this form of communication.
ukcat1
01-13-2008, 11:46 AM
emails are OK; emails to a phone are OK. So basically, texts generated by email route are ok but if you generate the text with the phone it is not.

I use both routes a lot and the only difference it whether a reply number is there or not. Texts do not get minutes charged and I have halved my minute useage by communicating with texts.

NCAA again shows they have no practical sense.
CatKroboth
01-13-2008, 12:03 PM
emails are OK; emails to a phone are OK. So basically, texts generated by email route are ok but if you generate the text with the phone it is not.

I use both routes a lot and the only difference it whether a reply number is there or not. Texts do not get minutes charged and I have halved my minute useage by communicating with texts.

NCAA again shows they have no practical sense.

Exactly... What if the Recruit has a Blackberry that receives e-mail, and the coach has a Blackberry for e-mail. They can send back and forth unlimited, cause that is e-mail not TXTing....

Then NCAA does not have a grasp of the technology that is available. What a joke.
Doug Hardin
01-13-2008, 01:42 PM
Current case law says that the NCAA is not a state actor, and the First Amendment can only be violated with state action, so a student-athlete wouldn't have a free speech claim against the NCAA.

But this ban does seem arbitrary. I'm actually making this post from my mobile phone. As technology continues to make communication easier, and more people can access the Internet and their email accounts on their phones, text messaging could become obsolete about as quickly as it became popular. Then I suppose the NCAA will find some other way to dictate how recruits can be contacted.