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[QUOTE="javadoc, post: 687922, member: 338"]
First, are you going to stand up in the NCAA "court" and say, "But everyone else is doing it."  It is irrelevant whether you expect ever to end up in court - are you hanging your hat on that as your defense should the day ever come?
 
One of the articles I read stated that by contacting a recruit via social media and saying, "Come to Syracuse!" you become a booster at that very moment, regardless of whatever else you have done.  There is a very broad catch-all clause dealing with promoting the school's athletics interests, or some such, that would certainly seem to apply to targeted activities like recruiting a prospect via social media.  So it may not be difficult to identify who is a booster for this one specific area of the rulebook - if you pitch your school through social media, you are a booster, by definition.
 
Finally, why did Eric White post a photo of an apple on our field?  Didn't mention a recruit by name, after all.  Then why did he do it?  Too much idle time on his hands from his paid job?  That was recruiting, plain and simple, and recruiting of a specific prospect easily identifiable through the content of the post.  Mr. White thinks of Applefield, posts a picture of an apple on a field, and the viewer construes "Applefield" from it.  It is no defense to say, "Well, he didn't technically spell out the guy's name in writing."  He is not a coach, and until the NCAA decides what to do about the proposed rule to allow some recruiting activities by non-coaches, he broke the rules.
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