Texting recruits may not be totally dead
INDIANAPOLIS - The NCAA will reconsider three rules, including one that bans coaches from sending text messages to recruits, at its Aug. 9 board of directors meeting.
The board could reaffirm the text messaging decision, reject the decision or create new legislation. Current rules place no restrictions on text messaging with recruits. The new rule is scheduled to take effect on Aug. 1. Should the board make changes, the rule would be rescinded. If it is affirmed, the rule would remain in place until a January vote at the NCAA's annual convention in Nashville, Tenn.
Many of the schools that appealed the original legislation said they favored some text messaging restrictions but not an outright ban.
The board also will consider override requests on rules that limit roster size and financial aid available for college baseball teams and date changes for the men's and women's golf seasons.
Last year was the first time an override vote was taken at the national convention. Delegates upheld a rule to allow Division I-A football teams to play 12 regular-season games, but rescinded legislation that allowed graduate students to transfer to a new school and play immediately.
- Associated Press
Temple's Kirkendoll elects to transfer
DaShone Kirkendoll, a rising senior at Temple and a presence on both the Owls' basketball and baseball teams, will be spending his final season elsewhere.
Kirkendoll, a 6-foot-5 shooting guard, played in 22 games for hoops coach Fran Dunphy but only started once. He pitched for the Owls for the past two years as well, seeing action in four games as a sophomore.
- Andrew Scurria
Syracuse's Miller jumps to Harvard
All of a sudden, Harvard is the place for coaches to be.
The Crimson scored a big hire this week when Lisa Miller left lacrosse powerhouse Syracuse for the more modest tradition found in Cambridge, Mass.
Miller's stock hit an all-time high after the Orange's banner 2006 season, when her squad went 13-6 and knocked off No. 8-seed Vanderbilt in the Tournament. Her streak of 10 straight winning seasons at Syracuse is tied for the fifth-best ever.
Harvard, by contrast, has gone 13-35 over the past three years with just six Ivy League wins.
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