No More Texting

Today, the NCAA completely banned coaches from sending text messages to recruits, effective August 1st. Our very own Jeff Reinebold has something to say about that.

Hawaii defensive line coach Jeff Reinbold, who has been a head coach in the Canadian Football League and in NFL Europe, said the text ban punishes the non-BCS Conference schools that are fighting to compete with the big boys.

"We're going to have to do a better job than those other schools and do more because of these limitations now when it comes to building a relationship," Reinbold said. "It's going to make it tougher for a program like ours that's fighting to make the jump into the top 25. It's these type of limitations that kind of hold schools like us back and allow the fat to get fatter."

You tell em! The funny thing is that e-mails are still allowed... which begs the question, does the NCAA realize you can send e-mails from your phone too? Anyway, Reinebold is on it:

"As competitive as recruiting is, the places that do an outstanding job – places like Florida, USC and Ole Miss – those schools will lead the way in finding another avenue to access these players," Reinbold (sic) said.

"For all of us maybe in a different financial situation than those schools, we're going to have to make sure we hit every avenue that we can to keep our name in front of the kids. In a way, it's going to come down to the old style of recruiting where you're finding creative ways to keep your name there in front of the prospects. Whether that's through their girlfriends, high school coaches, a friend or somebody in their family, you're going to have to go back to how things were when you had to hustle harder than the other guy."

Well, whatever the NCAA says, I'm glad Jeff will be hustling to make Warriors a better football team. Big props to the Sun God.