Pass the Mic ? Blog Archive ? Forget The Fax

Its 2013, right?

By the way National Signing Day went Wednesday, you would think college athletics spent another year stuck in 1990.

Nowhere else will you find a group of grown men and women eagerly waiting in front of a fax machine. Step back from the fax machine, please. You all look clingy and desperate.

Sure, it?s exciting. And sure, it?s part of tradition. But like a beautiful ex-girlfriend you dated four years ago, it may be time to move on.? There are others out there waiting for you.

They have many names. Email. Picture messaging.? Scanners. They are called using anything other than a lame fax machine that ruins any good interior decorating momentum going on in the athletic department building.

It seems like the transition will happen eventually (yes, there will be a time when they stop making fax machines ? just like the time when they stopped making floppy disks), but every school is afraid to be the first one to give in.

From a junior in high school to the day before National Signing Day, technologically current communication is in full force with high school recruits, parents, coaches and university officials. Calls are being made wirelessly, texts are being sent and recruiting trips are being arranged through the Internet and smartphones.

We?re not in a world relying on collect calls anymore; we?re dealing with LTE, 4G and Wi-Fi technology. Yet, colleges are still dealing with a fax machine.

Don?t think this is the way the NCAA set it up. According to NCAA recruiting rules, the NCAA allows recruits to scan and email the paperwork into the university, even though most recruits decide to avoid that route.

Colleges are still trying to be a part of the in-crowd with fax machines. It?s like high school insecurities all over again. Let?s see what ?big? college will be the first switch to only email. That?s the day we find out what college will become as cool as the guy that first wore the skinny tie on campus.

Honestly imagine the NFL Draft using a fax machine. I?m sure ESPN and Roger Goodell would be thrilled to have the No. 1 pick of the NFL Draft be postponed on national television because of a faulty fax machine.

But fax machines don?t falter, right? Fax machines can keep up with the times, right? Just ask Florida State University. Head coach Jimbo Fisher basically had a mini panic attack on the phone Wednesday when one of his top recruits couldn?t get his fax machine to work.

Nobody wants to see a guy named ?Jimbo? with high blood pressure.

Everything about recruiting involves communication. In fact, the NCAA set regulations to stop over-communication. Universities will get penalized for texting/calling an athlete too much while still in high school.

In the midst of all of the instant information we can get from Twitter, a recruit can take 30 seconds and 140 characters to tell millions of people what college just got a signature of the letter of intent.

College coaches will fly across the United States to see ESPN?s top ranked defensive end on ESPN?s 300 but they can?t make the extra effort to get rid of a fax machine.

Colleges, join the new world order of communications. Kill one of the few collegiate traditions whose time has come.? Forget the fax machine and forget it now.

Change is a good thing.? Just text one of your new recruits on a smartphone.? They will tell you the same thing.

? Marshall Hampson

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