NCAA reconsidering text message ban

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ut 4 me said:
i bet urban is a texting machine
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He did it a ton a couple of years back. Some of the other less-technically proficient coaches were pissed off and complained. His use of it was one of the reasons that the ban was made.

The only legitimate rationale for it a year or so ago was that it coult cost the kid money to get the text message and that's not fair to the kid. But, nowadays every provider let's you get unilimited messages for about five bucks a month and so its no longer a valid reason, IMO.
 
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I wonder if all the kids who have grown up on texting over the past few years will be more susceptible to gradual onset UCL injuries in the coming years? I smell class action.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
I wonder if all the kids who have grown up on texting over the past few years will be more susceptible to gradual onset UCL injuries in the coming years? I smell class action.
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I made the prediction today at lunch that, just as they have voice recognition software for word processors, and just as they have the same for cell phone autodialers, its just a matter of time before you can talk to your phone to have it text message people or maybe even look stuff up for you on the net.

Remember Star Trek? Punch the button on your shirt and talk to people? Calling out "Computer" and having it engage in a dialogue with you to look up information? Give it five more years.
 
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Personally i'm of the opinion that recruits are better off with out texting. If anything we already bother these kids too much and we all know that every message that is coming from the coaches cell phone isn't personally written. I bet at least half are sent by assistants.
 
#10
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Yeah, but what about all those damaged thumbs in the meantime? How are those kids going to be able to give me a spongebath and wipe my fanny when I'm laid up in the nursing home? Hello bedsores I guess.
 
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droski said:
Personally i'm of the opinion that recruits are better off with out texting. If anything we already bother these kids too much and we all know that every message that is coming from the coaches cell phone isn't personally written. I bet at least half are sent by assistants.
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More, I think. In fact, there was a complaint that the head coaches were having assistant coaches use their phone to send out messages to make it look like the head coach did it. Maybe they'll amend the regulation to focus on that.
 
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lawgator1 said:
More, I think. In fact, there was a complaint that the head coaches were having assistant coaches use their phone to send out messages to make it look like the head coach did it. Maybe they'll amend the regulation to focus on that.
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I remember some Cal recruit in his signing story on scout saying tedford texted him minutes after the holiday bowl victory and the kid being really impressed by this. He wasn't even a huge recruit either. I'm thinking tedford has better things to do than to text his 10th most important recruit immediately after a victory. edit: though when I was at an alumni event he did mention he sent something like 100 texts per day to recruits though I didn't see him break out the blackberry at the event.
 
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you know you can send text messages via the Internet as well, which probably expedites the process a bit (laptop in the airport perhaps?).
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
you know you can send text messages via the Internet as well, which probably expedites the process a bit (laptop in the airport perhaps?).
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or more likely some secretary has a recruit mailing list that immediately texts the same message to every recruit something like:

"Great victory today. Can't wait to see you here at Cal. JT"

what stops them from sending the same message? if they have good enough technology they could easily have it go "Hey <insert nickname>" at the beginning of the message.
 
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droski said:
or more likely some secretary has a recruit mailing list that immediately texts the same message to every recruit something like:

"Great victory today. Can't wait to see you here at Cal. JT"
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With a blank in it where she just changes the name of the recruit.
 
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droski said:
or more likely some secretary has a recruit mailing list that immediately texts the same message to every recruit something like:

"Great victory today. Can't wait to see you here at Cal. JT"

what stops them from sending the same message? if they have good enough technology they could easily have it go "Hey <insert nickname>" at the beginning of the message.
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Even so, I'd say these kids enjoy the attention. It's flattering. I got a couple of scholarships to schools in California when I was applying to grad schools a few years ago. Even though it was totally impractical and unrealistic for me to move out there, I was pretty happy to get the offers. I even considered taking a trip out there to see the campuses. Anyway, I don't think these kids are really bothered by the attention.
 
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kptvol said:
Even so, I'd say these kids enjoy the attention. It's flattering. I got a couple of scholarships to schools in California when I was applying to grad schools a few years ago. Even though it was totally impractical and unrealistic for me to move out there, I was pretty happy to get the offers. I even considered taking a trip out there to see the campuses. Anyway, I don't think these kids are really bothered by the attention.
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Its not them that complained. It was the coaches that weren't savy enough to take advantage of the tool that whined aobut the advantage that others had in using it.
 
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