{"id":3482,"date":"2011-08-10T08:17:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T13:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=3482"},"modified":"2011-08-10T08:17:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T13:17:01","slug":"ncaa-confused-about-messaging-in-recruiting-in-the-face-of-noemail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/ncaa-confused-about-messaging-in-recruiting-in-the-face-of-noemail\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA confused about messaging in recruiting &#8211; in the face of #noemail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you think <a href=\"http:\/\/reesenews.org\/2010\/12\/16\/staying-in-bounds\/7929\/\">the other NCAA rules are confusing<\/a>, they are clearly based on something somewhere but the messaging rules aren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/10\/sports\/facebook-and-twitter-become-the-norm-in-recruiting.html?_r=1&#038;ref=sports\">According to the New York Times<\/a>, coaches may contact players by Twitter direct messages, but not by TXT; by Facebook Messages, but not by Facebook Chat &#8212; and public Wall posts are out of the question. Email and phone calls are allowed, but the prospective players won&#8217;t take those &#8212; afterall they are under 25 (see studies earlier in this blog).<\/p>\n<p>A  trusted resident expert in this house claims that the unifying theme is banning public communications while allowing private ones. The exception for SMS aka TXT, he says and the article supports, is because the person receiving the TXT also receives a charge if unlike most TXTing teens the prospect doesn&#8217;t have an unlimited TXT plan. <\/p>\n<p>One hole in his, or more likely in the NCAA&#8217;s, logic is the difference between Chat and Messaging. Both are private and with the new Facebook Mobile Messenger app both are unified and merged in the same inbox. The trend as seen at Facebook and in Google Plus is to unify the inbox and the activity streams into a personally manageable environment. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what the players are telling the coaches. We don&#8217;t take calls. We don&#8217;t do email. We want communications mobile. We want them short and interactive. Twitter is TXT without the NCAA restrictions. Facebook Messages aren&#8217;t email.<\/p>\n<p>But the NCAA is in a ball of confusion.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"213\" height=\"175\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/15AFE7RhoA0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think the other NCAA rules are confusing, they are clearly based on something somewhere but the messaging rules aren&#8217;t. According to the New York Times, coaches may contact players by Twitter direct messages, but not by TXT; by Facebook Messages, but not by Facebook Chat &#8212; and public Wall posts are out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noemail","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3483,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions\/3483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}