The NCAA enacted new recruiting rules two months ago allowing coaches to retweet and like recruits’ tweets, even if they have not signed their National Letter of Intent.
The passage of Rule 2015-48 marks a major shift from the NCAA’s previous, more restrictive rule, in which coaches could only follow and send private messages to recruits. Like the other 350 Division I basketball programs, Marquette’s coaching staff faced a challenging decision — how will their recruiting philosophy adapt to this game-changing rule?
“We don’t overcomplicate it,” Marquette assistant coach Stan Johnson said. “If there’s something out there that a guy that we’re recruiting posts and we think it’s something we like or we want to retweet, we will do that.