I know this is a basketball article, but it is related to the kind of things that go on with this website, particularly as it relates to
OSU football. Please keep in mind that your interactions with recruits can have consequences for the program if you take it too far. There are recruits that read this site, and if they're coming here and posting, that is not harmful. However, I have seen people on here pull up myspace pages of recruits and things of that ilk, and that starts getting into dangerous territory. We all want good kids and good athletes to suit it up in the 'Shoe, but Tressel & Co. can do just fine on their own without the help of people like us. Let them do their thing.
I'm not saying anybody here has done or is doing anything like this, but it's something that we should all keep in the back of our minds as recruiting heats up this year.
http://www.sportsline.com/print/collegebasketball/story/9563214
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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Kentucky self-reported a secondary NCAA violation because of postings on a potential recruit's MySpace.com website, apparently by fans.
The postings on the site of West Virginia high school basketball star Patrick Patterson, who just completed his junior year at Huntington High School, tried to entice him to attend Kentucky, WLEX-TV in Lexington reported.
"Fans are not allowed to interact with recruitable student athletes," Kentucky athletics spokesman Scott Stricklin said Wednesday. "We had to report that to the NCAA."
Patterson, a 6-foot-8 center, was named the West Virginia Player of the Year this year and led Huntington High to its second straight state title, compiling 23 points, 11 rebounds and 6 blocked shots in the championship game. For the regular season, he averaged 14.5 points, 11 rebounds and 4.4 blocks per game and has had interest from several Division I colleges.
Stricklin said when fans contact potential recruits, the school tries to educate them not do to that or it will hurt the school.
He said if that takes care of the problem, there would likely be no further action.
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