The NCAA might finally ban text messaging between coaching staff and potential recruits in all sports (email would not be affected).

This is the same proposal, put forward by Ivies, that advanced through committee meetings last year; the full DI Board of Directors will consider the ban next week.

Text-messaging and other instant communication feature prominently in coaches' complaints about the Red Queen's Race that modern recruiting has become.

Two years ago, small-conference DI schools beat back proposed restrictions on texting, arguing that their coaches needed it in order to compete with BCS schools.