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Now for some of the misconceptions many fans have on this subject.

1) These rules are stupid, unfair, (and my favorite) unconstitutional. First, these rules are only stupid and unfiar if you are a fan.

So, it's fair for me (an LSU fan) to get some other school punished simply by contacting a recruit and encouraging him to attend that school? And if I then call the school and tell them who I am, what school I'm actually a fan of, and what I did, they still must self-report a violation? And if they don't, then I can report to the NCAA what I did AND the fact that I told the school about it and they didn't self-report?

It is absolutely insane, stupid and unfair for me to "automatically" be treated as a booster of a school simply because I encourage a recruit to attend that school.

To emphasize this, let me state right now that any potential prospect reading this post should attend either Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Tulane, Louisiana Tech, Louisiana-Lafayette or Louisiana-Monroe.

There! Now every school in the SEC and every FBS school in the state of Louisiana, with the exception of LSU in both cases, just committed a violation of NCAA rules. For their own protection, they better self-report right away. Maybe the NCAA will go easy on them.

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Posted by BhamTigah

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Posted on 8/15/08 at 3:31 pm to Nuts4LSU

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or me to "automatically" be treated as a booster of a school simply because I encourage a recruit to attend that school.

Those are LSU's words in the letter to CYA against anything. This is the actual definition of a booster in the NCAA rules (I fit the definition given by LSU, but I don't think I fit the NCAA definition):

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13.02.13 Representative of Athletics Interests.
A "representative of the institution's athletics interests" is an individual, independent agency, corporate entity (e.g., apparel or equipment manufacturer) or other organization who is known (or who should have been known) by a member of the institution's executive or athletics administration to: (Revised: 2/16/00)
(a) Have participated in or to be a member of an agency or organization promoting the institution's intercollegiate athletics program;
(b) Have made financial contributions to the athletics department or to an athletics booster organization of that institution;
(c) Be assisting or to have been requested (by the athletics department staff) to assist in the recruitment of prospective student-athletes;
(d) Be assisting or to have assisted in providing benefits to enrolled student-athletes or their families; or
(e) Have been involved otherwise in promoting the institution's athletics program.

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