No More Texts? OMG!

Mark Sanchez, USC backup QB

The NCAA management committee, the cruel overlord of the intricate code of compliance for college sports, has approved a proposal to end text messaging as a recruiting tool. Ironically, the Ivy Leaguers, probably the same group that invented text messaging, were the group to propose the text ban. I can imagine the SEC complaining about Urban Meyer's legion of teenage girls he uses to perpetually blow up a recruit's cell phone with texts (G8Rs want U bad!), but the Ivys?

I for one am happy to hear about the proposed ban. Mark Richt doesn't know how to email, so I'm skeptical that he can compete with Urban's text posse in sheer volume of attention and prompted phone calls. The real winners have got to be the parents of uber recruits who are now relieved of the burden of paying text messaging fees.

The full proposal goes before the Board of Directors on April 26th.

The only coach more upset than Urban? Houston Nutt.