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[Harry]

Thanks to the efforts of good fans Old Timer and Gangrene we are making the recruiting forum available for all of our GoMeanGreen registered members. This board was previously private and due to many requests we have decided to make it available to all of our good fans. Old Timer as many of you know has been following recruiting for a long time and is a loyal alum that bleeds green. Gangrene, also a great fan and alum has been a devout recruiting guru and will be helping us keep tabs on the latest recruiting news.

We encourage all of our fans to participate in this forum. As you know, we have fans throughout the state who follow high school football closely. Please feel free to share your scouting information of high school games, players that catch your eye and look like they would be a good fit for North Texas. Please keep the following rules in mind as you follow the recruiting process at North Texas:


NCAA Rules Regarding Booster Recruiting and Involvement with Prospects
Boosters are not allowed:

• to contact a prospect in an attempt to recruit or encourage attendance at North Texas. This includes telephone calls, letters, emails, and facsimiles, along with any face-to-face contact on or off campus
• to post messages on a prospects website (MySpace, Facebook or other similar sites) encouraging attendance at North Texas.
• to invite a prospect or prospects family to any booster function or alumni event.
• to provide a prospect or the prospect's family with free or reduced rate transportation, meals, lodging, gifts, entertainment or expenses for any type of service.
• to make contact with a prospective student-athlete or his/her parents when the prospect is on campus for official or unofficial recruiting visits.
• to contact a prospect to congratulate him/her on signing a National Letter of Intent to attend North Texas.
• to obtain film/videotape or transcripts from a prospect's educational institution in an effort to evaluate the prospect's academic eligibility or athletic ability.
• to employ or arrange for employment of a prospect before the completion of the prospects senior year of high school. After graduation, a booster may employ a prospect as long as the compensation is for work actually performed and at the going rate and the rate is commensurate with experience.

NCAA rules on the Internet: the internet is considered similar to email, telephone calls, and general correspondence. It would be a violation of NCAA rules for a booster to use the internet as an avenue to contact prospect's, their families, or their coaches. Participation in "chat rooms" with prospects is also strictly prohibited.

Rule of thumb: don't provide anything to a prospect or prospects relatives without approval from the North Texas Compliance Office.

What can you do?

Boosters are allowed:

• to send information (news articles, game programs) concerning a prospect to the appropriate coaching staff.
• to attend a high school or community college event, provided they do not contact prospective student-athletes or their families, coaches, counselors, or high school administrators in an attempt to recruit the prospect.
• to continue pre-established friendships with prospects, their parents and relatives provided that the contact with these individuals is not arranged by North Texas coaching staff members, nor is the contact an attempt to recruit the prospect.
• to attend public events (banquets, fundraisers, or dinners) at which prospects are in attendance. However, NO contact or attempt should be made to recruit the prospect, including contact with the prospects parents or coaches.

GMG!!!!!

[gangrene]

Since there will be many members that are new to this forum, I'd like to quickly review the rules for posting in the recruiting forum. Nobody likes to get bogged down in a bunch of rules but these are fairly simple and necessary to keep the recruiting information as easily accessible as possible.

#1. Please don't post comments about a prospect in the position, offer or commitment threads that are pinned. The idea is to keep these pinned threads as clutter-free as possible so that it remains fairly easy to find information about prospects. If you'd like to comment about a particular player that is listed in a pinned topic, you should create a new topic for your comments or questions.

#2. Please do post any new information about a new prospect in the appropriate position thread (and offer thread, as applicable) following the same format as the other posts. I.e. player's name (linked to Rivals/Scout/ESPN profile, if available), position, height/weight/40 time, current school/home town, schools player is interested in, offers listed separately and then any statistics or accolades you may have found for the prospect. Please post any video on a player as a new topic in a non-pinned thread. Also, if this is too much trouble or you prefer to remain anonymous, feel free to PM me regarding any prospects. If you have additional information about a prospect that's already been posted, you can also PM that to me and I will make a revision to the existing post, giving you credit for the new information.

#3. Please think before you post. Keep in mind, this forum is open to all "members" of GoMeanGreen.com, regardless of the member's school of affiliation. We also have many members that are relatives of current/former players so don't post anything about someone you wouldn't say to them in a face-to-face conversation. In addition, it's not inconceivable that the players being recruited may join GMG.com and read any relative posts so, again, please keep that in mind when commenting about a particular player's abilities or lack thereof and limit those negative comments to factual information on a player's athletic or academic abilities. Please no comments about prospect's girlfriends or anything else that may be construed as inappropriate. The last thing we want to do by making this recruiting forum more public is to scare off potential recruits by posting negative comments about them. Acceptable comments would be, "That player looks too small for a LB or a 4.8 40 seems slow for CB." Unacceptable comments would be, "That DT sure is ugly or he cheated in class all the time (unless that evidence has been documented).

Thanks in advance for your support and input, and a big welcome to all members who are new to the recruiting forum.


***Edit. #1 and #2 were posted prior to the implementation of the recruiting blog and are no longer valid under the new format. Please feel free to start a new thread about any player not already listed on the position profiles or to discuss any prospect. You can also PM Old Timer, Harry or myself if you have new information that is not already published in the blogs. Thanks***

[Harry]

Bumping this to the top.

[Harry]

One thing I want to make sure and emphasize, we do not condone taking any paid subscription based information and placing it here. Please refrain from doing this as it could get us in trouble and we would have to pull your posting privileges. If it is not subscription based feel free to link it here do not cut and paste articles however as the writer of the article should receive some traffic for their efforts. Thank you!! GMG!

[Harry]

One thing I want to make sure and emphasize, we do not condone taking any paid subscription based information and placing it here. Please refrain from doing this as it could get us in trouble and we would have to pull your posting privileges. If it is not subscription based feel free to link it here do not cut and paste articles however as the writer of the article should receive some traffic for their efforts. Thank you!! GMG!

BUMP!