This past week I read a particularly interesting and slightly disturbing article on ESPN about how fans are now able to interact with recruits more than ever because of social media. It is currently against NCAA rules for fans to interact with any possible recruits because they want people to offer them any unfair incentives to attend a particular school. After all it is the coaches who are paid to do all the recruiting for us fans right? If the schools wanted our help they would pay us too. I love following all the recruiting news regarding UGA football as much as anybody but when I heard what some fans were doing to try and entice players to come to their school I was shocked. Twitter and all the other social media sites now allow fans to interact with recruits on a daily, and even minute by minute, basis. The article I read talked about a fan that saw on twitter that a recruit was getting ice cream some where and showed up wearing his team colors and talked to the recruit about attending his university. The recruit said that it was very uncomfortable and really creeped out his girlfriend at the time. Understandably. Other equally disturbing incidences have occurred to other recruits. One of the most popular things that I have come across is deranged fans wanting to name their next child after the recruit if he chooses to attend their school. Umm thanks, but no thanks. Do they really think that offering to do that will make that recruit any more like to attend choose their school? One fan even tried to get a player to go to USC by saying that he would kill himself if the player did not commit. He later went on to say that he was kidding and that he has kids at home and would never do that. To that fan I say THEN WHY DID YOU SAY IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. What a messed up thing to kid about. Most fans out there know the lines that they should not cross, but clearly there are some that are willing to do WHATEVER it takes.
Here is a little snip-it of a USC fan trying to get the #9 high school player in the country to commit to USC. There were many many more tweets by this fan, but I figured this would get the point across.
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Darryl Revels 
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