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Understanding Charlie's "Tweet's"

Posted 06-10-2009 at 12:45 PM by SouthLakeTom
Updated 06-10-2009 at 01:21 PM by SouthLakeTom

For those of you familiar with the BlueandGoldnation.com home page, you have probably noticed the Charlie Weis Twitter update application. For those of you who haven't, see this link :

http://twitter.com/ndhfc

As good a job as Coach Weis does explaining what he's currently doing, he often forgets that unless you have coaching experience or have been around a Football program, the general public still has questions regarding what actually is going on. Hopefully this blog post will answer some of those questions. Please don't hesitate to leave a question in the comment box below If I don't cover an aspect you are interested in.

Recruiting:

Last week and even till now, Coach has been talking a lot about recruiting and what he can and can't do currently. As technology advances, the NCAA will and has adopted rules regarding "Twitter" and FaceBook communications. Pete Carroll was the frist I believe to take to FaceBook and Twitter, and because of the success, other coaches jumped on board. Once these accounts were available for viewing by the general public, the NCAA put the kabash on using these vehicles to communicate with recruits.

Last week a popular topic was the recruiting test he and his staff needed to pass. This is the same test that came into question during the famous Lane Kiffen - Steve Spurrier battle.

This test is not as hard as it seems if you are involved in the game or a program. The questions come right out of the NCAA manual, and most programs already have instruments in place that ensure everything is handled correctly.

In the past 6 months, Lane Kiffen's football staff has been charged with at least 5 secondary violations. Most of these have been self-reported.

When you self-report a violation, it means that the compliance officer at the school becomes aware of an incident or action, and then tells the NCAA. Every school has a compliance coordinator, and that individuals job covers recruiting rules, all the way down to team travel and academic transcript audit's. It is a tedious job, and a thankless job.

Secondary violations are usually paperwork mishaps. One of the most common occurs when a coach or Ath. dept employee fails to put a recruit down on the recruiting log. The recruiting log is kept with the NCAA and can be updated at any time. The problem occurs when a coaching staff fails to communicate with who is in charge of the recruiting log. A potential athlete cannot communicate or take a visit to a school unless he or she is in the log. This sounds like a fairly easy task to complete, but with the large staff sizes at these D-1 institution, sometimes people forget to communicate w/ each other.

If you are interested in taking this recruiting test, you may do so here: http://web1.ncaa.org/coachesTest/exe...xam?division=1

Check back later this week as I will cover off-season game planning and development.

And speaking of Tweet"s, according to Pete Carroll's Twitter, he had a great meeting with Urban Meyer while he and Herby shot a new ESPN commercial.

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	This is not one of my better pieces. If i did not address something you would like to know more about, please ask me here in the comments section.
	Posted 06-10-2009 at 01:57 PM by SouthLakeTom

	Thanks for the link to the exam. What are some of the potential punishments for these secondary violations and when does it start to become a concern to the NCAA?
	Posted 06-10-2009 at 02:40 PM by Amish Irish

It was okay Southy. Can you discuss Crroll throwing his digs at Rich Neuhesel(sp) UCLA coach, by voting against having sons on the sidelines? Seems it's ok for $C to have the likes of Bu$h, Snoop, and other ner' do wells.
Also, doesn't it seem condescending for a coach to twitter to the general public? Or can the coach twitter to individual recruits as well?
Thanks kid.
Oh, don't be disappointed if there aren't a $hitload of
responses.

Posted 06-10-2009 at 02:42 PM by jem5b jem5b is offline

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Originally Posted by Amish Irish

Thanks for the link to the exam. What are some of the potential punishments for these secondary violations and when does it start to become a concern to the NCAA?

Amish,

Each secondary violation, depending on what it is has it's own prescribed penalty. By the time we, the public here about it, it is usually already been taken care of.

Here is a link to the NCAA website detailing the prescribed punishments through self reported Level two violations:

The Official Web Site of the NCAA - NCAA.org

Posted 06-10-2009 at 03:47 PM by SouthLakeTom SouthLakeTom is offline

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Originally Posted by jem5b

I think the issues between PC and RN are more about press and media than it is pure dislike. This is the only football LA has right now, and the Bruins have been a wall flower in the LA sports environment for the past few years.

The age deal has to do with insurance. The Coaches can vote all they want, but it comes down to the Pac 10 member institutions to change the rule. The back of the sideline pass says specifically that no one under the age of 18 can be issued this pass. You see ball boy's on the field still, but the are all over 18 now.

I think that if a Coach want's to let the world know what he is doing all day via Twitter, it's fine. I don't have a Twitter account, but as you read, you can see that they are very choosy as to who they reply back to.

Pete Carroll opens up his program to anybody who wan't to see it. On any given day in the fall you can walk outside of Heritage Hall and walk right onto the practice field and observe. You don't need to be a scout or member of the media either. If he feels it does good for him and his fan's, then go ahead.

I don't think it win's you any games, but if you are into self-marketing, and you have an audience, I don't have a problem with it.

A lot of people fail to realize that talking to kids outside of contact periods is difficult. Yes, the school pay's for these staff cell phones, but you can always go down to 7-11 and buy a prepaid phone for $40 and there is now way the NCAA or the school could Audit the usage, let alone know who the owner is.

If you are smart and know how to network, you get faculty involved. If you know a kid is really interested in business, you ask someone from the Biz school to call the kid. When that kid comes in for a recruiting visit, you get that faculty member involved.

With as many rules that are in place, you always have loop holes. I remember one time it was a Saturday in the Spring and we were in a "dead" period. We were actively recruiting a senior who had offers from some small schools. We wanted him to walk on, he had already been granted admission, but we didn't have a scholarship for him.

Since you can't call from the Football office, we drove down the block and into the Biz school parking lot. We grabbed a student, and told him we needed help getting a kid to come here. We called and told the kid we were calling from the Biz school, then put on this student. Neither knew who the other was. It was classic. We didn't even break any rules.

Posted 06-10-2009 at 04:04 PM by SouthLakeTom SouthLakeTom is offline

	Thanks SLT. The new social contact media systems are so ubiquitous that they seem more busy and as redundant as 24 hour cable news. I guess coaches have to text and twitter via the preferred mode of their audience but eventually it must be face to face that seals the deal and still coaching that elevates the program.
	Posted 06-18-2009 at 02:15 PM by psdo51

Understanding Charlie's "Tweet's"

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