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Message from LSU Compliance regarding Message Boards
Posted on 8/14/08 at 3:35 pm
Posted on 8/14/08 at 3:35 pm
I received this email today from the LSU Athletic Department. We have had prospective student-athletes posting on here, and the message below states that we cannot allow that anymore.
quote:
Please see the note below from LSU Associate AD for Compliance Bo Kerin regarding message boards and NCAA rules regarding communication on those sites with fans and prospective student-athletes. We ask in an effort to educate or fans that you please post the following message to your site.
As we prepare for a new athletic year, the LSU Athletic Department is issuing the following advisory regarding NCAA rules and asking operators of online message boards to please share the following message with their members:
As we begin the 2008-09 academic year, the LSU Athletic Department would like to take this opportunity to remind you that representatives of LSU's athletics interests, or "boosters," are prohibited from engaging in conversations with a prospect, or "recruit." Please be aware that NO written, telephonic or in-person communication is permitted between a recruit and a booster of an NCAA institution regardless of the medium. Please note that anyone who encourages a recruit to attend LSU is automatically considered a booster. Many believe that they are not a booster because they do not contribute financially to the University. However, NCAA rules specify that any individual who assists in the recruitment of prospects is considered a "booster."
Please be cognizant of these rules and refrain from engaging in chat room sessions, posting messages on a recruit's Web page or engaging in "Q & A sessions" with recruits on message boards. By avoiding these activities, you will be assisting LSU in maintaining compliance with NCAA rules.
Thank you for your cooperation in this matter and for your continued support of LSU Athletics!
GEAUX TIGERS!
This post was edited on 8/14/08 at 10:30 pm
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Posted on 8/14/08 at 3:38 pm to Chicken
wow so when recruits come on the board, identify themselves and want to talk to LSU fans we are supposed to ignore them and not reply?
sounds logical to me
sounds logical to me
Posted on 8/14/08 at 3:39 pm to Chicken
EEE i know what that's about
Posted on 8/14/08 at 3:39 pm to supatigah
Does this mean I can't post anymore?
Posted on 8/14/08 at 3:40 pm to Chicken
So athletic department staff are the only ones who can convince a recruit to come to LSU?
Posted on 8/14/08 at 3:40 pm to Chicken
but we can talk to their secretaries right?
Posted on 8/14/08 at 3:41 pm to Chicken
Chicken, you should probably sticky this on the recruiting board. I know there are a lot of folks over there that rarely come to the rant that won't see this if it isn't there. 
Posted on 8/14/08 at 3:41 pm to CCTV
not that i'm in the situation, but what if the recruit is your best friend? could i not talk to him, even if he's hanging out at my house?
Posted on 8/14/08 at 3:42 pm to Chicken
Thanks NCAA. Another stupid rule, that they will never be able to enforce. 
This post was edited on 8/14/08 at 3:43 pm
Posted on 8/14/08 at 3:42 pm to josh336
quote:
not that i'm in the situation, but what if the recruit is your best friend? could i not talk to him, even if he's hanging out at my house?
or what about parents telling their kids where they want them to go?
Posted on 8/14/08 at 3:44 pm to CCTV
this is all welll and good but how would one know if the person is unidentified???? We wouldn't so that means we are guilty until proven innocent. When they cannot get the North and South ends correctly printed on the ticket backs it makes me wonder............
Posted on 8/14/08 at 3:47 pm to josh336
quote:No. Apparently not.
not that i'm in the situation, but what if the recruit is your best friend? could i not talk to him, even if he's hanging out at my house?
. . . . unless you buy his family a $757,500.00 home in California, then it's OK.
Posted on 8/14/08 at 3:47 pm to charlied
I believe that also pertains to the "Myspace Stalkers" that like to get on recruits friends lists.
Posted on 8/14/08 at 3:49 pm to Chicken
This is the dumbest thing ever. Why can't the recruits talk to us? Makes no sense.
Posted on 8/14/08 at 3:51 pm to thunderbird1100
it's not possible to enforce this, how would they be able to have prove that Drayton Calhoun was actually the one talking to us in that Q&A session
Posted on 8/14/08 at 3:53 pm to josh336
quote:
how would they be able to have prove that Drayton Calhoun was actually the one talking to us in that Q&A session
Posted on 8/14/08 at 3:57 pm to josh336
quote:
it's not possible to enforce this, how would they be able to have prove that Drayton Calhoun was actually the one talking to us in that Q&A session
Geez, thanks, now we've lost 10 schollies over the next 5 years...
Posted on 8/14/08 at 3:58 pm to supatigah
so Traylor should be banned for life for costing us the recruitment of Drayton Calhoun imo
Posted on 8/14/08 at 3:59 pm to windriver
Does this mean I can't go on myspace and give e-hummers to our recruits anymore?
Posted on 8/14/08 at 4:00 pm to windriver
hmmm...... waiting on chickens opinion here
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