In two weeks, college basketball recruiting changes significantly

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WanderingGopher said:
This seems like a very bad rule overall, and also bad for us. Unlike some other coaches, I don't envision Tubby sitting by his cell phone texting recruits day and night.
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I would agree with both your points. I don't see how this is good for recruits to be bombarded like they will be and I don't think we have the staff that will be as aggressive as many of our competitors.

Go Gophers!!
 

BleedGopher said:
I would agree with both your points. I don't see how this is good for recruits to be bombarded like they will be and I don't think we have the staff that will be as aggressive as many of our competitors.

Go Gophers!!
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maybe with the overload of texts from all the other coaches, Tubby's handwritten note will stand out.
 

I can see a recruit getting a text message delivered to:

"(name of athlete) and 286 others." :cool03:
 


I feel like there might be some sort of threshold between where a recruit thinks "Wow, this coach really wants me on his team," and "This coach won't leave me alone."
 

This is a bad rule for the current Gopher staff, the next interivew I read with a recruit saying that "Minnesota is recruiting me the hardest" will be the first. We're going to get out-texted.
 


EG#9 said:
This is a bad rule for the current Gopher staff, the next interivew I read with a recruit saying that "Minnesota is recruiting me the hardest" will be the first. We're going to get out-texted.
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Whatever could potentially lead to better recruits and/or more victories, rest assured that Tubby is the worst at it.
 



dpodoll68 said:
Whatever could potentially lead to better recruits and/or more victories, rest assured that Tubby is the worst at it.
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A question that modern electronic law has no way of answering, who truly is the texting person? Is it really the head coach? It could be any assistant coach, alumni obsessed wanna be recruiter, etc.
 

EG#9 said:
This is a bad rule for the current Gopher staff, the next interivew I read with a recruit saying that "Minnesota is recruiting me the hardest" will be the first. We're going to get out-texted.
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Actually I believe AJ Hammons, who is headed to Purdue, said that once this summer, unless you were referring to after this rule goes into effect, in which case it kind of goes without saying that the next time you hear a recruit say that would be the first.

This rule does seem like it could be bad for recruits though, especially the highly rated ones, who are going to have 10+ schools after them who have no limit to the amount of times they can call or text them.
 


The more I think about it the more I don't mind it. What this rule will do is level the playing field between the programs that follow the rules and the programs who completely ignored the rule limiting the number of texts/calls like Baylor (and I'm sure there were many others who didn't get caught).

I do agree it would suck for the recruits, but there is nothing saying they have to give their personal cell phone number.
 



Unregistered User said:
None of the head coaches send their own texts. It's usually an intern doing it for them.
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And you know that how?
 


I loved listening to Dave Thompson on CCO ripping the NCAA for allowing texting for about 1 hour on Sunday. Saying he feels bad for these kids and parents. Says kids don't need to be able to text with coaches.

Then literally 5 minutes later when talking about another subject he says "I am going to have to text my kid, it is the only way they communicate with me now."
 

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