I ran across an interesting article in The Seattle Times the other day about college basketball recruiting.

The newspaper surveyed 82 Division I men's basketball coaches about their thoughts on recruiting. Here are some of the more noteworthy findings:

Coaches were asked if they could change one rule about the recruiting process, what would it be.

Eight said they would go back to allowing text messaging on cell phones.

Four said they would allow prospects to sign national letters of intent within a short period of time after committing.

Three said they would allow tryouts by visiting recruits.

Three said they would like unlimited recruit evaluation days.

Three said they would curb summer recruiting.

Three said they would limit recruiting to high schools and cut out recruiting at AAU and similar club tournaments.

One said coaches should get 100 evaluation days per year, but should be able to decide what days those should be, rather than have the NCAA decide.

The coaches were asked how many times they text-messaged recruits when that practice was allowed. Here's the breakdown:

Less than 5: 26

5-20 times: 27

20-40 times: 16

40-75 tiimes: 10