Dawgs Daily 21-Jan-13

Dawg Links Now that virtually all the work of recruiting can be handled by staff members, will UGA aggressively take advantage of the new rules? Coaches can now make an unlimited number of contacts with recruits via text messages or social media. Printed recruiting materials sent through the mail are now completely deregulated in terms of frequency or expense. And schools will now have the ability to hire a recruiting coordinator who isn't a head coach or full-time assistant coach, which is a particularly big deal for football. All three of those things favor schools with major resources. Alabama, if it wanted, could now hire a staff of people to do nothing all day, every day but send mailers and text messages out to recruits – something the many schools with much smaller athletic budgets probably couldn't afford. A change like that, Emmert said, would have probably been a "drag-out fight" as recently as last year. But with the NCAA coming under heavy attack ...