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Boosters play a role in providing student-athletes with a positive experience through their enthusiastic efforts. They can support teams and athletics departments through donations of time and financial resources which help student-athletes succeed on and off the playing field.Boosters, referred to by the NCAA as "representatives of the institution's athletic interests," include anyone who has:

• Provided a donation in order to obtain season tickets for any sport at the university.
• Participated in or has been a member of an organization promoting the university's athletics programs.
• Made financial contributions to the athletic department or to a university booster organization.
• Arranged for or provided employment for enrolled student-athletes.
• Assisted or has been requested by university staff to assist in the recruitment of prospective student-athletes.
• Assisted in providing benefits to enrolled student athletes or their families.
• Been involved otherwise in promoting university athletics.

Once an individual is identified as a "representative of the institution's athletics interests," the person retains that identity forever.Only institutional staff members are permitted to recruit prospective student-athletes. Generally, NCAA rules prohibit anyone else from contacting (calling, writing or in-person contact) prospects or the prospect's relatives or guardian for recruiting purposes.

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So technically, anyone who has made a donation to to a school's athletic department and tweets a recruit urging him to sign with that school is in violation of NCAA rules. Thought of this when I noticed that sips have been all over Twitter Thursday tweeting at Aggie recruits, dissing TAMU and urging the croots to choose t.u. instead. Of course the NCAA isn't even going to notice a lot of this, but social media is adding a whole new dimension to recruiting game.

But I can imagine a scenario in the not too distant future where a big donor to School A gets liquored up and tweets at a recruit urging him to sign with School A. Someone from school B, one of School A's major rivals sees the tweet and knows they guy is a booster. He then rats the donor out to the NCAA and provide "810 color glossy pictures [of screenshots] with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence..."

The problem with enforcing this rule is that every single fanbase is in violation.

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Showing my age, but that line reminded me of Alice's Restaurant and the pictures of Arlo Guthrie littering.

Good because that's what it is from.

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Good because that's what it is from.

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Let me guess, you're Officer Obie??

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Let me guess, you're Officer Obie??

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He's a father raper.

Laugh/cry.

TR and I share an unhealthy knowledge of song lyrics.

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Let me guess, you're Officer Obie??

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He's a father raper.

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Sittin' right here on the "Group W" bench. LOL,

I almost linked that line, but I figured putting it in quotes would show t hat I wasn't stealing it and wondering how many other "olde phartes" like me it would get a comment out of.

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The problem with enforcing this rule is that every single fanbase is in violation.

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Yes, but still... even when done with the best of intentions, fans tweeting at recruits is creepy.

There on the other side
In the middle of the other side
Away from everything else on the other side
In parentheses
Capital letters
Quotated
Read the following words:
"KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?"

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He's a father raper.

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Sittin' right here on the "Group W" bench. LOL,

I almost linked that line, but I figured putting it in quotes would show t hat I wasn't stealing it and wondering how many other "olde phartes" like me it would get a comment out of.

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Olde Phartress, if you please, sir.

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He's a father raper.

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Sittin' right here on the "Group W" bench. LOL,

I almost linked that line, but I figured putting it in quotes would show t hat I wasn't stealing it and wondering how many other "olde phartes" like me it would get a comment out of.

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Not sure if I'm technically old enough to get it, but a couple Houston FM stations used to play it every Thanksgiving.

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The problem with enforcing this rule is that every single fanbase is in violation.

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Yes, but still... even when done with the best of intentions, fans tweeting at recruits is creepy.

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Yeah, I'm not gonna argue with that.

Looks like beveled is out of a job.

If this 'rule' was enforced, all schools would have sanctions against them. What would the punishment be for doing this?

How can a university keep boosters from sending ill-advised tweets to recruits?

If you EVER gave money to the school then you are a "booster". Looks like I need a twitter account and a donation to Texas Exes. I'll claim to be a huge supporter of the program.

I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin' up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and he started jumpin' up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL."

Remember Alice?
It's a song about Alice...