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Occasionally over recent years I have become dismayed by the antics and/or behaviors displayed on social media by a few of our recruiting targets. When I say dismayed, I’m referring to what I perceive as the likelihood of their “fitting in” with the UConn WBB culture.
I’m drawing perceptions based solely on social media activity, and I’m not alleging that anything is right, wrong, good, bad, or indifferent; these are all relative terms anyway. Let’s face it, these girls-becoming-women are mostly celebrated overachievers, and they didn’t become overachievers by accident. Still, early-life conditioning, maturity, immaturity, and peer pressures (positive and negative) can influence for sure.
While social media can reveal a great deal about individuals who partake, I am of the belief that baby-boomers and older generally perceive the folks on the other end of their social media communications as “they,” while millennials and younger generally perceive those folks as “we.” This can account for a big difference in how, what, and how often we partake.
So if Geno ever was to have second thoughts, what are his options?
1. If Geno loses interest in and decides to end the recruitment of a player, is he required (NCAA) to inform that player of his intent to end his recruitment or interest?
2. Once a scholarship offer has been made to a recruit, is Geno permitted to withdraw that offer for any reason, and what and how (if any) procedures must be followed? (I’m just referring to standing offers, not already accepted scholarship offers)
3. And what about verbals? Of course the recruits themselves can back out of a verbal, but can Geno back out of an “accepted” verbal? Has he ever? I’m not aware of any.
And just for good measure, does anyone else feel as I do pertaining to the likelihood of social media activity in any way foretelling a likely or unlikely “fitting in” with the UConn WBB culture.
Hoping some of you “in the know” can shed a little light on the subject for we that are ignorant on such matters.
I’m drawing perceptions based solely on social media activity, and I’m not alleging that anything is right, wrong, good, bad, or indifferent; these are all relative terms anyway. Let’s face it, these girls-becoming-women are mostly celebrated overachievers, and they didn’t become overachievers by accident. Still, early-life conditioning, maturity, immaturity, and peer pressures (positive and negative) can influence for sure.
While social media can reveal a great deal about individuals who partake, I am of the belief that baby-boomers and older generally perceive the folks on the other end of their social media communications as “they,” while millennials and younger generally perceive those folks as “we.” This can account for a big difference in how, what, and how often we partake.
So if Geno ever was to have second thoughts, what are his options?
1. If Geno loses interest in and decides to end the recruitment of a player, is he required (NCAA) to inform that player of his intent to end his recruitment or interest?
2. Once a scholarship offer has been made to a recruit, is Geno permitted to withdraw that offer for any reason, and what and how (if any) procedures must be followed? (I’m just referring to standing offers, not already accepted scholarship offers)
3. And what about verbals? Of course the recruits themselves can back out of a verbal, but can Geno back out of an “accepted” verbal? Has he ever? I’m not aware of any.
And just for good measure, does anyone else feel as I do pertaining to the likelihood of social media activity in any way foretelling a likely or unlikely “fitting in” with the UConn WBB culture.
Hoping some of you “in the know” can shed a little light on the subject for we that are ignorant on such matters.