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[QUOTE="javadoc, post: 690738, member: 338"]
Agree that it is unlikely that people are going to start sending snail mail to recruits' homes.  Curious how much it has happened, but not curious enough to spend any more time looking.  :)
 
One quibble, though:  while I agree that the definition of booster is probably out of whack, the linchpin definition is "recruiting" I think.  The bylaws state that only the coaches are allowed to recruit, but it also (redundantly?) then goes into verbiage about boosters and what is forbidden to them.  I don't know if they intended the booster stuff simply to reinforce the fact that they were aiming primarily at (common-sense) boosters and improper inducements, because a broad definition of recruiting would make all the booster language superfluous.
 
So a proper definition of recruiting might untangle the mess.  Make it something that takes into account an offer of value made to the recruit, which the offerer either has to act to accomplish himself or through an agent, or which he is in a unique position to provide.  So coaches recruit when they try to persuade someone to accept a scholarship.  Boosters recruit when they offer cash, jobs, homes for family members, etc.  Offers of sexual favors would similarly be considered recruiting, but highly doubt that anything would be done in that regard.  Although I think the NCAA poked about in that matter in the Colorado case a while back.
 
Tweeting, writing snail mail, etc. wouldn't be considered recruiting, because all a general fan can say is, "I recommend you go to Syracuse, for the following reasons."  No offer of value to change hands.  Might not even need amending, as it seems pretty general, common-sense, and flexible going forward.
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