I’ve read this three times now and I’ve thought about it a bit since it was first rumored a few weeks ago. I have to say, this is monumentally misguided and almost entirely impossible to enforce, but, hey, you go ahead SEC.

The SEC, one of college sports’ biggest, richest, most prominent conferences, earlier this month sent to its 12 schools an eye-opening new media policy. It places increasingly stringent limits on reporters and how much audio, video and “real-time” blogging they can do at games, practices and news conferences.

But even more interesting is that the policy also includes rules for fans in the stands. No updating Twitter feeds. No taking photos with phones and posting them on Facebook or Flickr. No taking videos and putting them on YouTube.

A conference spokesman said this policy was meant to try to keep as many eyeballs as possible on ESPN and CBS — which are paying the SEC $3 billion for the broadcast rights to the conference’s games over the next 15 years — and also on the SEC Digital Network — the conference’s own entity that’s scheduled to debut on SECSports.com later this month.

I don’t even know where to begin, so I won’t.

Hey, speaking of Tweets …

“Had expensive dinner at Porcini’s 2nite, then stayed until after closing. Made a new Louisville fan.” — Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino.