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May 20, 2008

Bending the new rules already

We told you last month about a new NCAA rule designed to restrict the amount of contact NCAA coaches can have with potential recruits during the spring. Well, should anyone be surprised that coaches have already come up with ways to skirt the new law?

The Chicago Tribune reports that instead of evaluating recruits in the spring period, Illinois football coach Ron Zook is, instead, conducting coaching clinics -- six of them, in fact. While Zook may not be seeing the kids directly during say, seven-on-seven drills, he gets the next best thing: access to coaches, who, in turn, can pass along information between a recruitable athlete and Zook.

Even oilier is the way Alabama coach Nick Saban is getting around the rule. Saban, who was the intended target of the rule change, is using a Web cam from his office to contact a few kids a day. The next thing you know, Saban and Zook and other coaches will get jobs at fast food restaurants in their prized recruits' hometowns to slip them a Big Mac and a scholarship offer.

Posted by Milton Kent at 7:03 AM | | Comments (0)
        

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