College athlete recruiting and Twitter

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigeast/post/_/id/31280/twitter-poses-fine-line-for-players

As a competitive college team, you want to recruit the best high school athletes to be on your team. The NCAA has a ton of rules of what you can and cannot say to prospects during certain times. One thing that there really isn't a rule for is social media. There is no rule set in place that if a current player tweets or writes on a prospects wall on facebook so that makes it fair game. Since there is no rule about social media from the NCAA, then college coaches tend to not have rules because they are not "up-to-date" with the times. So basically the college athletes can do their own recuiting of high school players that they want on their teams. In my opinion, I think it's fine for athletes to try and recruit prospective college athletes using social media. There is no such rule forbidding it and social media is continuely growing. The NCAA is not going to be able to look over everyone's twitter or facebook that plays college sports. In my mind, it isn't breaking any rules and it's going to be difficult to try and stop since it is continuely growing.