Look fans shouldn't be tweeting recruits but saying its a NCAA violation is BS how could the NCAA police that? and the last time i checked freedom of speech is still legal in this country, the NCAA is asking for a lawsuit. I mean you could respectfully ask fan to stop contacting recruits but making threats is not gonna work.
This is why I said possible violation in my title but fans should read the
NCAA Bylaw 13.02.14..
I don't know how they are going to police it but why would anyone other than friends, reporters/writers, and schools tweet those kids?
Recruiting and social media: Twitter leads to new set of compliance problems
NCAA bylaws only allow an institution's coaches and authorized staff to contact prospective student-athletes; those who are prohibited from contacting recruits include boosters, season-ticket holders, students, alumni and, yes, even average fans.
“Fans cannot contact a recruit and attempt to entice them to attend a certain school, as this is a violation of NCAA rules,” said NCAA spokeswoman Kayci Woodley.
“If a school comes across an instance of this happening, it is expected they would reach out to those athletics personnel, fans and boosters and reinforce the ground rules related to communicating with recruits. This communication outreach would most likely be reported to the NCAA, which would show the school is doing their due diligence to abide by the NCAA rules.”
Key words there are "fans can't contact recruits and attempt to entice them to attend a certain school." Why exactly would the ncaa attempt to penalize UM for a fan attempting to steer a recruit AWAY from UM?
If you guys want to ban guys for doing stuff off this site that you don't agree with, then you should just do that. But to attempt to cloak the banning as protecting UM against the ncaa is insulting to those of normal intelligence.