Video: Les Miles has been getting ready for unlimited texting to recruits
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Lost in the news that satellite camps are, after all, will not be banned is the fact that college football coaches just got a free new phone plan that includes unlimited texting to recruits.
The new rule that coaches can now communicate with recruits via text message went into effect on Thursday. Coaches still can’t initiate that contact with high school recruits until Sept. 1 of their junior years.
LSU coach Les Miles has been getting himself, and his fingers, ready to take advantage.
@LSUCoachMiles is ready to text! https://t.co/IQAVRGXuW8
— LSU Football Video (@LSUFBVideo) April 28, 2016
The decision to allow texting doesn’t sit well with some, including Ohio State coach Urban Meyer. He told cleveland.com on National Signing Day that he believes that serves as a distraction to student-athletes during important high school years.
“I hear the stuff about texting,” Meyer said. “I want to make this clear why — and this is a high school coach’s and high school player perspective — not college coaches. Who cares about college coaches? That’s not what this is about. It’s about them, and not screwing up a high school kid’s senior year or junior year. If you text someone, you can’t stop that, so you have a phone full of what? Text messages.
“If I don’t want to hear from that school they’ll keep hitting me because that’s their job, and usually it’s not them, it’s maybe an intern doing it. So here’s a kid in high school being bombarded with text messages sitting there doing this all day. If it’s social media, you can determine who you want to hear from.”
Born and raised in Gainesville, Talal joined SDS in 2015 after spending 2 years in Bristol as an ESPN researcher. Previously, Talal worked at The Gainesville Sun.
