So Today...

So today… we run in to another encounter with the NCAA and their regulations. So the NCAA is saying that if you are a college student, you can not friend request a high school player and try to sway him to come play for your school through social media? Like really? There is absolutely no way they will be able to stop this.

First of all, High school athletes love getting more popular through twitter and Facebook. Why wouldn’t they? If you are getting recruited by a number of colleges, you are more than likely the stud at your high school. Opening up your network of friends and followers to the thousands is going to be an intriguing process for any 17 year old that has aspirations to make it big in college sports and beyond. 

“Rivers may be the most visible high school athlete in the nation with more than 18,000 Facebook fans, more than 23,000 Twitter followers and YouTube highlight clips that have been viewed nearly a million times. He has committed to the Blue Devils.”

The NCAA is so naïve to believe that a couple of college football or basketball fanatics can alter the decision making of an athlete from their dorm room desktop. This is just another one of those things where the NCAA tries to regulate something completely pointless. Especially by trying to put restrictions on harmless social media buzz that they will never be able to oversee let alone control. While I do agree that it could be a useful tool for coaches to contact players, going out and making sure it doesn’t happen is nearly impossible.

At the end of the day high school athletes are going to get contacted by numerous fans regardless of their presence in different social media outlets. Let’s be honest. If you are being contacted by fans from all over the country because of your athletic achievements while you are still in high school, you will probably not have a problem with that. If you do, then… you got another thing coming if you ever become great at what you do after high school. If you’re widely respected, and highly recruited, people will find a way to get in contact with you no matter what restrictions exist.