Lawrence and a full-time intern, Coleman Fannin, keep Georgia's site stocked with statistics, standings and notes on all sports. With football, live play by play is provided on game days, as well as live audio for games and Georgia head coach Jim Donnan's weekly radio show. If only the Internet were so easy to control. Coaches can close practices to stem the flow of information, but they can't control recruiting information. A visit to a recruit that five years ago would have remained secret now seems to find its way to the Net within hours.
Coaches even complain that phone calls to recruits become public knowledge.
In recruiting, more damaging than the unwanted release of accurate information is the posting of inaccurate rumors. On Internet posting boards, there are no journalistic standards and no editing. Rumor is reported as fact. People can put down anything they want on a chat page. Similarly, Mississippi State's Jackie Sherrill says he is resigned to accept the Internet as a beast that can't be tamed.