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. There's some tremendously false information and if you try to read into certain things, then you're going down an alley that you don't need to be going down. But never anything negative . . . His online successor for this season, kicker Chad Holleman, was asked by Donnan to discontinue the journal. While Sanderson had hoped the Georgia player's journal would continue, his experience setting up the Web site proved productive.