Social media sleuthing just a part of today's recruiting for college coaches

Minnesota football coach P.J. Fleck has a dream request for the NCAA: Let him hire a P.I.

"You'd love to be able to have a private investigator on staff and be able to do background checks on every player you have, (on) everything." Alas, Fleck said, "you're not allowed to do that."

So coaches and their support staffs are left to become amateur detectives, especially during recruiting, which now includes the essential task of mining players' social media accounts looking for bombshells.

It has become a new frontier of recruiting in the last decade or