NCAA rules continue to get more and more bizarre.

As of Monday, Aug. 1, college coaches are allowed to interact with recruits on social media, a law passed by the NCAA's legislative council in the spring. Coaches have always been allowed to follow and direct messages recruits. But they are now allowed to publicly interact with them to an extent.

Per NCAA Proposal 2015-48, dubbed the "click don't comment rule," the following changes took effect Monday:

This means coaches can now 'retweet' or 'like' tweets/statuses of prospective athletes of any age, something previously disallowed until said athlete signed his national letter of intent to the school.

However, coaches are still unable to tweet to prospects, tag them, reply to tweets or add quotes to retweets. And they are not allowed to retweet recruits while on official visits, but can as soon as they leave campus, as the "publicity while on a visit" rules still apply.

But coaches no longer have to pretend online that their relationships with recruits don't exist. They can even feel comfortable sharing articles about recruits (as long a the recruits aren't tagged).

In effect, the changes have added an additional responsibility to coaching staffs (or more likely interns) competing for players, and lengthened the ever-growing recruiting calendar.

So let the games begin.

Note: Aug. 1 also marked the first day class of 2017 high school recruits could receive their official written offers.

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