NCAA: Facebook Control Freaks?

Moseley is a North Carolina State student who had the temerity, the sheer mind-numbing gall, to set up a Facebook page which, he hoped, would encourage a high school player named John Wall to come to his school. ~ http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10218928-71.html

The NCAA today seems to have power over every aspect of their athletes(captives) lives. Article after article comes out about how athletes are being penalized because of actions occurring on the internet, oftentimes far out of their control. Most recently, Taylor Moseley, who attends North Carolina State set up a Facebook page to encourage a high school player named John Wall to come to his school.

So far from my judgment this does not sound too illegal, in fact just seems like he's doing a good job marketing his school...

The school took his marketing campaign very serious and sent him a cease and desist letter... This is a public university and they sent him a cease and desist letter for making a page on Facebook. Something does not seem right. Schools more recently have become ever-more zealous. I could not even see how this would be legal at a private university.

Citizens of this country have a constitutional right to express themselves, be it on Facebook, in their house, or on public property and schools should not encroach on that right. The NCAA and NC State should be focusing on something more troubling like the massive amount of gifts given indirectly to people who are influential in the decision of up and coming stars.

It seems that schools and other organizations do not believe people have a fundamental protected right to free speech on the internet despite numerous cases illustrating and reinforcing this right. I hope he obtains a good lawyer and shows the NCAA and his school that college students are not idiots and they know their rights.