Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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murphy's Law dan murphy I NCAA Pulls Out All Stops On Recruiting have a confession to make. Last limits on how often a coach can send week on my way to Blue & Gold text messages to prospective studentWorld Headquarters I drove athletes. The group also decided to through a stop toss its restricsign. No one was tions on the around to catch types of promome. I'll never be tional material brought to justhat can be sent tice. to high schoolWe can't, afers through the ter all, expect mail. Recruiting the local police is about to be deto catch every regulated. driver who rolls The rule through an interchanges were section. Nor can t ru m p e t e d a s we expect the part of the orgagovernment to nization's new foot the bill for "don't sweat the the kind of techsmall stuff" attinology and mantude supposedly power it would guided at its take to consiscore by common tently halt such sense. There is no a menial crime Notre Dame recruiting coordinator and running reasonable way while more se- backs/slots coach Tony Alford will have new chal- for the NCAA to vere wrongdoers lenges with NCAA rules. track the number photo by joe raymond of text messages remain at large. No chance. So why don't we just get a college coach sends each day or what rid of all those pesky stop signs and be a university sticks in its mail. Their done with it? That's what the NCAA enforcers are already inundated by far would do. more serious scandals, so they decided This August, the governing body to lighten the load. That burden has to of college sports will take almost ev- fall somewhere. ery last stop sign along the recruitIt starts with the assistant coaches, ing trail and tear it out of the ground. who are the lifeblood of a program's Last month, the NCAA voted to lift its recruitment arm. They will be the ones