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NCAA to Tighten Twitter Rules

Posted by samzenpus on from the not-until-you-turn-pro-kid dept.

theodp writes "Facebook and Twitter have made student athletes more accessible than ever, but Tweets that catch the watchful eye of the NCAA could be all that's needed to bring down a successful college athletic program. Among the allegations leveled against the Univ. of North Carolina by the NCAA is a failure to 'adequately and consistently monitor social networking activity,' which the NCAA argues would have caused the school to detect other violations sooner than they did. To cope with the daunting task of monitoring hundreds of accounts on a daily basis, some sports programs are turning to software like UDiligence, while others are opting for a simpler approach, such as having a coach frequently check on posts from the team's players."

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  1. Sources will leak. by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You could just get drunk and blab to TMZ.

    Players will start having 2 twitter accounts, 1 for friends, 1 for 'fans'.

    Or how about you actually punish schools? No more of this "aww, you did something illegal yesterday, we'll just mark all those Ws as Ls". If NCAA actually wanted to stop violations they'd cancel OSU's foot ball season. No vacating 2010 wins. No small fines. Cancel their season. You play 0 games. You get 0 revenue.

    "It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal! You [violated the rules] so you get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir! "

    1. Re:Sources will leak. by stinerman · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Die-hard OSU football fan here.

      It pays to note that OSU unilaterally decided to vacate their wins from last year. The NCAA had nothing to do with that.

      It also pays to note that the players involved in the rule-breaking were simply selling their own possessions. Sure that's against the rules, but it's a pretty shitty rule. A friend of mine pointed out that they must have this rule or else schools could simply buy each player a $100,000 trophy that they could sell...which would get around the ban on paying the students. Fair enough, but this only lends more credence to the idea that college football (and to a lesser extent, basketball) programs should not be the de-facto minor league for the pros.

  2. Solution to piss off NCAA and monitors by Cito · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Everyone register fake twitter names similar to NCAA players, If you are a college student sign up and create about 5 or 6 or more different twitter/facebook accounts. let them monitor a fake one while you twitter or facebook under pseudonyms. I personally have like 6 twitter accounts and 4 facebook accounts, at my college some professors wanted us to give them our facebook and/or twitter names so I always give the fake ones. it drives them mad when sometimes they realize it isn't a real account as it's not used or has random text tweeted from a perl script from a random freeshell account. And to help others I've made dozens of accounts using similar names to people that want to obfuscate the profile a little bit, not fool proof but does help make it more difficult when googling for a person's twitter or facebook as 9 times out of 10 you will get 10-20 fake profiles I or others have created as top results before you ever get to the real person. But I always advise people making multiple accounts, using free anon proxy websites, just to help spam up search engines with false profiles and for giving the fake profiles to military/school/employers

  3. For the benefit of the 90% of non-USian readers... by Gordonjcp · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... what the hell is the NCAA?

    I gather it's some sort of "sports" thing. Surely if you don't want your whole life dictated by them, you just don't need to play their game?

    Find a different game to play. One that's fun, and doesn't require you to sign yourself up to a life of servitude.