[NU Sports] Scout and da Coach....

[Louie Vaccher]

First of all, I want to point out that Northwestern has been very 
accommodating to me as the publisher of WildcatReport.com, the Northwestern 
Rivals site. It took a little time and some negotiating, but I was able to 
obtain a media credential from NU and have had media access for football and 
men's basketball for the last three years.

And as Mike correctly points out, journalists (even web journalists) who are 
college graduates are allowed to talk to high schools prospects. Who do you 
think is writing all of those recruiting stories we see everywhere? I am a 
Northwestern alumnus and I talk to prospects every week. At Rivals, I would 
venture to say that the vast majority of sites are run and staffed by 
graduates of that school.

A school's boosters are the ones that are not allowed to have contact with 
potential recruits.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Nolan" <nolan at romaine.tssi.com>
To: <rstetson at capps-assoc.com>
Cc: <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Scout and da Coach....


>> Fourth, Scout changed their emphasis to recruiting after they were sold 
>> to Fox.
>> As an alum, I was barred from talking to prospects. Hard to work under 
>> those
>> conditions and I just decided to pull back.
>
> There must be some exceptions to this for credentialled journalists,
> most sportswriters are also alums of some college, even the jocks.
>
> And this has to apply to web journalists, too.  Jeremy Crabtree, for
> example, is an alum of Kansas State, yet I'm pretty sure he's talked to
> HS players considering going there.
>
> That doesn't change NU's regrettable attitude towards the web, though.
> --
> Mike Nolan
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