Friday, July 22, 2011

Sometimes the internet can work against you.

"[Aziz] Shittu said the [Texas A&M] Aggies’ coaching staff contacts him every day on Facebook and has been relentless with its recruiting."

Straight out of The Sporting News, the implication here, is that Texas A&M MAY have made improper contacts with a recruit during quiet periods. An extremely heavy emphasis on MAY, because we'd have to look at the dates of every one of their posts on Shittu's wall.

But what this points to, as many sports columnists have pointed out lately, that the internet not only makes it far more difficult to cheat the rules and get away with it, but every word you say is tracked and reported, so you must be sure that you say exactly what you mean, and nothing more.  Why, just ask Marc Tyler how he feels about his outburst, and we all know how Dillon Baxter exaggerated some claims, last year.

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