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About three months ago, UA coaches from each sport met with the compliance office. Bouton gave the room a quick primer on Facebook and then told them what was permissible in the eyes of the NCAA.

“I was surprised at what we were allowed to do,” Ryden said.

Coaches can accept friend requests from prospects. If the prospect is a junior or senior, they can exchange messages in each other’s inbox, as though it were an e-mail. Coaches can also post any video that would be permitted on the school’s Web site.

“They were saying, ‘Hey you guys can do this. It’s legal,'” said UA volleyball coach Dave Rubio. “NCAA rules tend to lag behind the electronic age. It was surprising that we are able to do as much as we are able to do.”

On social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, athletes can post pictures and conversations accessible to anyone by a simple search-engine query.

Starting this fall, however, all UA athletes will be required to set their Facebook pages to private. That means only viewers approved by the athlete will be allowed to see the pages.

Punishment for failing to “reflect the high standards of honor and dignity” of a UA athlete “could result in punishment, up to and including reduction or non-renewal of your athletic scholarship,” according to the new rule.

When Bouton was preparing a presentation about social networking for a December Pac-10 meeting, she was shocked by the number of Wildcats whose pages were public.

In the past, the UA had simply warned athletes to try to be smart on social-networking pages, eschewing any notion of banning their use.

“What we have realized is there’s a high security risk with some of our student-athletes … that are celebrities in the athletic world,” LaRose said.
The policy is meant to protect athletes from outsiders, LaRose said.

Despite a 13-24 record through his first three seasons in Boulder, Hawkins didn’t cringe when a reporter asked him Thursday if the Buffs were in position to make a run at the Big 12 title this fall.

“Do we have the potential to do that? Yes, we do,” Hawkins said after a long pause. “But you’ve got to get hot, you’ve got to get some confidence going, you’ve got to avoid injuries. And then you never know how those things will go. But I think we’re definitely getting closer to knocking on the door.”

Louise Bennett Reed, a coal miner’s daughter, bequeathed the University of Colorado athletic department her entire estate valued at $4.75 million, the school announced Friday.

The record single donation to the department will annually fund six out-of-state equivalent scholarships, beginning this fall, athletic director Mike Bohn said.

Reed, who died a year ago at age 103, was a volunteer academic/career counselor for CU football players during the mid-1970s.

The donor specified CU should use the estate for football and men’s and women’s basketball scholarships. Bohn said in order to preserve a perpetual fund, the department will use $250,000 a year for scholarships.

With annual Buff Club donations producing about $5.9 million, Bohn said the endowment will put CU over the $6 million mark.