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Message: [QUOTE="cuseinchina, post: 689920, member: 3079"] I think it's clear that the most likely outcome here is that the NCAA is going to crack down on random fans sending twitter messages to potential recruits, consequently ever major D-1 program will lose all their scholarships until this egregious conduct by fans can be stopped. time to start placing bets on America East teams since they will of course be taking all the recruits in the northeast with all these penalties coming down. Additionally, the NCAA will surely engage the help of the NSA to correctly figure out if a tweeter really is a fan of a particular school or if in fact they are covertly working on behalf of a competitor school - whichever team the fan is found to support will be subject to severe penalty. Moreover if the NSA (or google's security agents, whoever is enlisted to help police the particular crim in question) finds that someone has tweeted who in 1974 gave $50 to the football team they support - that person will be subject to a lifetime ban from watching college football - whether live or on ESPN as the channel will be summarily blocked, it goes without saying that their twitter privileges shall be immediately revoked...and of course any t-shirt, hat, sweatpants, or tattoos displaying the name of an ncaa affiliated institution will be confiscated and appropriately disposed of. THIS WILL BE STOPPED! :). sorry, i find this whole thing to be entirely without logic. We have coaches enlisting the help of 'orange nations' 'twitter army', we have fans from every program in the country engaging in the exact same activity, and there is no realistic way of policing the activity based on volume and no reason to police it based on impact or intent (eg no money changing hands). I am sure the NCAA will come up with rules that dictate what coaches can and can't do in the age of social media, and that will be welcome. the rest of this is pure speculative nonsense an has no basis in reality. The ncaa wants to avoid boosters giving athletes money or promising them things...period. They can't even close a 5 year investigation of Miami, how anyone thinks they have a chance of stopping fans from tweeting is beyond me. I don't think they are silly enough to try. [/QUOTE]

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