SCGamecock
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If you're a "booster" (a term often used loosely and includes season ticket holders) to a program then it's technically illegal to contact recruits via social media.. but this is very difficult to enforce, hence why the NCAA doesn't enforce it.
Every school in the country would be on probation and there would be endless cases of negative recruiting... for instance, CFB fans tend to be recruiting fanatics and it's very cutthroat at the P5 level.. what's to stop fans of Ohio State from becoming boosters at Michigan and falsely recruiting kids on twitter to Michigan in order to get the Wolverine athletic department in trouble?
So who would the NCAA penalize? The schools? The fans? The recruits?
They don't have the legal ability to penalize the fans.... so they don't enforce it. They just strongly discourage it. But that stops no one.
Every school in the country would be on probation and there would be endless cases of negative recruiting... for instance, CFB fans tend to be recruiting fanatics and it's very cutthroat at the P5 level.. what's to stop fans of Ohio State from becoming boosters at Michigan and falsely recruiting kids on twitter to Michigan in order to get the Wolverine athletic department in trouble?
So who would the NCAA penalize? The schools? The fans? The recruits?
They don't have the legal ability to penalize the fans.... so they don't enforce it. They just strongly discourage it. But that stops no one.

