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Message: [QUOTE="Argonaut, post: 3120683, member: 9658"] I think part of the problem is that right now the rule is black and white -- you can't have visible tattoos (I'm guessing that CW's cross on her neck was already there before she signed and there was some kind of arrangement made that it could be left alone). When you start to muddle that, then kids are looking for a way to get around the rule. Not because they're bad kids, but because that's just the stage of life they're in. Any changes would just open the flood gates because anything in the middle is just too arbitrary, and I can't see Geno and CD being okay with someone covered in visible tattoos representing the brand they've so carefully created. Is it old-fashioned? Maybe. But I think there is a place for this mentality when there are a lot of great programs and a lot of great players. I feel like I should note that I'm a 30-year-old woman who has 20 piercings and no tattoos. I'm down for people doing whatever makes them feel good. However, because I'm in education in the South, I recognize that my piercings could keep me from getting jobs. The way I look at it, if I want the job badly enough, I'll follow their rules, but odds are, if a school already has a written policy against them, it's probably not a good fit for me to begin with. [/QUOTE]