http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/spor...fansites.shtml
Here's some of the quotes that stood out to me.
"A lot of (fan-sites) are just gripe boxes," UNM Athletic Director Rudy Davalos said. "This is a free country and everybody can do what they want to do. We have a loose situation in what people can say in terms of profanity and nastiness."Recruiting, a process once distinguished by its poker-face secrecy, has been unearthed for all to see on the Web.
"It's a big effect on recruits," said Mike Sullivan, a national basketball recruiting analyst for The Sporting News and Rivals.com. "It's a lot bigger than a lot of the old-time coaches say. At least 75 percent of recruits are online."
And when that happens, particularly for a school like New Mexico, coaches can be left in bewilderment. "Most kids would rather tell a Web-site guy they're being recruited by Notre Dame and Michigan," Long said.
"We run into that all the time. We'll recruit a kid and then somebody reads on the Internet that he's interested in Texas, Texas A&M and Oklahoma. Later we find out those schools aren't even interested in him."
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