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From BU Braves Blogger:
"Here's something of relevance to the Missouri Valley...
There's a big time Creighton fan named Matt Perrault - who does a sports radio show, now in Des Moines and a lot of blogging and stuff on the Bluejays' message boards.
He created a little controversy....he posted on the Creighton board that fans can help Creighton basketball recruiting by contacting all the CU recruits (and he listed them BY NAME) and requesting they accept them as friends on Facebook. He insisted it was not an NCAA violation for fans to do this.
HOWEVER -- this exact same type of fan & booster activity has already caused some schools to be cited for NCAA violations (UNC and Kentucky both turned themselves in when their fans did this in an orchestrated fashion) and the NCAA agreed it violated the rules about contact from agents of the schools.
CLEARLY it creates a nightmare for schools if their fans are doing this in an organized fashion, and the way the NCAA seems to be on a witch hunts for anyone nowadays committing violations, then any fans or boosters who are doing this had better be very careful. Even if they ARE careful, I have been told personally by representatives of Bradley University, that they DO NOT want their fans and boosters doing this, as it clearly creates the HUGE worry of what's being said and by whom....quite possibly causing numerous undefendable illegal contacts by people that the NCAA would view as representatives of the University.
In other words.... don't contact them unless you are doing so as a properly certified and authorized member of the university coaching staff or athletic staff!!!
(And it's pretty unlikely that your are or ever will be!)
Obviously, as I would have expected, someone from Creighton took offense and asked that he remove the post. Since he runs the CU Rivals site, they had to ask him to remove it. Apparently he did remove it and now is acting like it never happened, including deleting anyone's posts who even asks about it.
But he can't control other boards, and there is this thread on another site, which is otherwise quite dead-
It is very likely that Perrault just caused Creighton to have to do a review and submit a voluntary self-report to the NCAA citing this sequence of violations!"
"Here's something of relevance to the Missouri Valley...
There's a big time Creighton fan named Matt Perrault - who does a sports radio show, now in Des Moines and a lot of blogging and stuff on the Bluejays' message boards.
He created a little controversy....he posted on the Creighton board that fans can help Creighton basketball recruiting by contacting all the CU recruits (and he listed them BY NAME) and requesting they accept them as friends on Facebook. He insisted it was not an NCAA violation for fans to do this.
HOWEVER -- this exact same type of fan & booster activity has already caused some schools to be cited for NCAA violations (UNC and Kentucky both turned themselves in when their fans did this in an orchestrated fashion) and the NCAA agreed it violated the rules about contact from agents of the schools.
CLEARLY it creates a nightmare for schools if their fans are doing this in an organized fashion, and the way the NCAA seems to be on a witch hunts for anyone nowadays committing violations, then any fans or boosters who are doing this had better be very careful. Even if they ARE careful, I have been told personally by representatives of Bradley University, that they DO NOT want their fans and boosters doing this, as it clearly creates the HUGE worry of what's being said and by whom....quite possibly causing numerous undefendable illegal contacts by people that the NCAA would view as representatives of the University.
In other words.... don't contact them unless you are doing so as a properly certified and authorized member of the university coaching staff or athletic staff!!!
(And it's pretty unlikely that your are or ever will be!)
Obviously, as I would have expected, someone from Creighton took offense and asked that he remove the post. Since he runs the CU Rivals site, they had to ask him to remove it. Apparently he did remove it and now is acting like it never happened, including deleting anyone's posts who even asks about it.
But he can't control other boards, and there is this thread on another site, which is otherwise quite dead-
It is very likely that Perrault just caused Creighton to have to do a review and submit a voluntary self-report to the NCAA citing this sequence of violations!"
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