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[QUOTE="leftytg, post: 689484, member: 2651"]
This whole thing is just a silly tap dance that everyone knows is silly, but has to do because change with the NCAA moves at a glacier pace.
 
- Syracuse University cannot stop any individual fans from tweeting at recruits.  The NCAA knows this and knows they can't punish schools for things wholly, entirely out of their control.
- Because of this, the NCAA throws its hands up in the air and say it is up to each member institution to enforce the ban.  The NCAA doesn't even try to stop it themselves.
- Ergo, Syracuse University has to publicly say "tsk tsk tsk please stop" to appease the NCAA, while in reality they know they can't stop anyone and honestly, they kinda like the fact that the fan base is showing love to recruits.
- As evidenced by the complete and total lack of NCAA action on the part of fans tweeting at recruits, the NCAA is satisfied with this fiction.
 
It is silly.  The whole thing is just a charade.  The sensible thing to do would be to just amend the definition of booster to not include random fans without any kind of meaningful, influential connection to the program and exclude Twitter messages.  But the NCAA has chosen to ignore their own rules instead of changing them.  So be it.  But all the controversy and gnashing of teeth about this on the forum is overwrought.
 
For the record, I have never so much as followed a recruit on Twitter let alone even considered tweeting at one.  It just isn't my thing.  But, as a fan of the program who wants to see them recruit as well as possible, I'm glad those people do exist.
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