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Brendan Holm hauls in a pass Tuesday afternoon.

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Wondering about that headline up there? If this web site is accurate, that's a text message that says: "How are you? Good luck next game. Winning is so pleasurable. Talk to you awhile from now." (Not being a cellphone kind of guy, I don't have a clue, so YMMV -- your mileage may vary -- but you get the idea.)

Now why, you may be wondering, is this Green Alert guy bringing this up? Because the NCAA is looking into text messaging and recruiting at the invitation of the Ivy League, which considers it a growing problem. Carolyn Campbell-McGovern, associate director of the Ivy League, told the Lexington Herald-Leader:

"Hearing from coaches all hours of the day and night is intrusive. Then there is the cost of the phone bill when prospects send return text messages."

Campbell-McGovern, who once worked in administration at Dartmouth, told the paper that athletes -- Ivy and non-Ivy -- have pushed for the ban. She said:

"This is clearly the way high school students want to communicate with each other. It's not clear this is really the way they want to communicate with adults."

Not everyone agrees text messaging is a bad idea. This columnist from Sportsline.com wrote that "...(T)he NCAA -- thanks to apparently out-of-touch Ivy League schools proposing a ban on text messaging -- will spend two days exploring the issue."

The column says, "The Ivy League has already implemented a similar policy against text-messaging to its coaches." Didn't know that.

The Lexington Herald-Leader story includes this:

The National Association of Basketball Coaches has not taken a position. Reggie Minton, the NABC Deputy Executive Director, said his organization's surveys show the proposal divides coaches.

"I don't want to say it's 50/50, but that's close enough," he said. "Some like it the way it is. Others want it more regulated."

Minton is a former head men's basketball coach at Dartmouth.

Another Columbia Spectator column is getting some play on an Ivy message board. From the column:

"Organizations that make students feel uncomfortable on campus contribute toward this school's image problem, which in turn keeps Columbia from bringing in talent. Such groups, for example, have contributed to the destruction of Columbia's athletic programs since their upheaval of the Morningside Park gym."

The Yale Daily has a column suggesting that a college's athletic program isn't just a boon to the athletes. It can also bring the student community together. From the column:

Sports have played a huge part in my four years at Yale. First, sports have been an amazing social experience. I remember the first time I sat in the Pierson section of the Yale Bowl. I have pictures of me and my friends going absolutely nuts on the Harvard 50-yard line last November. I also have pictures of me and people I don’t even know watching football games together. There’s something special about going to Yale sports events as a Yale student: Everyone’s your friend, at least on the right side of the court/stadium/rink.

(Warning: Dartmouth men's basketball takes a bit of a hit in that column.)

Cornell has scheduled a summer clinic for rising seniors interested in playing college football. ... Holy Cross will have internet audio coverage of its spring game Saturday.

TTFN (ta-ta for now).