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Message: [QUOTE="JS, post: 3304317, member: 6"] CL82, the definition of booster is indeed broad, as you say. It's also circular: Boosters aren't allowed to do certain things, and if you (a non-member of the athletics staff) in fact do them that makes you a booster who can't. I was speaking, however, not only of booster status but also of separate lines of attack, i.e. using ineligible recruiters or failing to exercise institutional control over recruiting activities. There, one could [I]argue [/I]whether the school knew what was going on and either intended it or failed to take available steps to stop it. Both sorts of allegations have been made against UConn by those not wishing the program well, especially in connection with recruit visits to the campus and/or game venues. And in either case, people doing things and then blabbing about it on this board enables the accusation by serving as evidence both that it occurred and that UConn knew or should have known about it. So it's much simpler just to discourage and avoid it as board policy. Arguing that this or that activity isn't a violation and people ought to be able to do it, or even that people who are duly cautious about it are foolish, isn't helpful. [I] [/I] [/QUOTE]