Flooding a recruit's (physical) mailbox with a hundred handwritten letters may be a growing fad in college football, but Eric White, Syracuse director of recruiting operations, told Syracuse.com it is "absurd."

"I think it's too much. It's a fine line. Blowing up a kids' mailbox with 115 letters a day? I don't know," White said. "We want to stay relevant but we don't want to bombard a kid with 120 mailings in a day."

This statement comes on the heels of at least five schools sending mass amounts of letters to high school players they would like to recruit.

According to USA Today, Duke University sent 115 letters to defensive end Harrison Phillips, a junior in high school, and even included a photoshopped image of him on the NFL Draft stage being selected by the San Diego Chargers.

The University of Kentucky, one of the weakest teams in the South Eastern Conference (SEC) of NCAA Division 1 football, landed a verbal agreement with four-star quarterback recruit Drew Barker after sending him 115 handwritten letters, the Kentucky Courier-Journal reported. Each envelope had a custom design with his number seven involved and each letter bore its own message.

"I opened up the mailbox like I do every day, and they started falling out," Barker told the Courier-Journal.

The NCAA voted earlier this month to suspend a potential rule change that would allow coaches to send unlimited text messages and make unlimited phone calls to recruits year-round. White, who has used social media heavily in his own recruiting, was pleased with the vote.

"I'm so glad they did not deregulate it," White told Syracuse.com. "It would have been crazy. It would have been the Wild Wild West."

Smaller, less successful schools are not the only ones using this new trend to land their top recruits. Nick Saban, head coach of the University of Alabama Crimson Tide, sent high school running back Alvin Kamara 105 letters in one day back in February, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

For White, the key is to lay off and give the kids he is recruiting some space.

"The texting every day, that's way over the line," White told Syracuse.com. "None of our ideas are to bombard a kid, or to overwhelm them, we just want to inform and help them make the best decision."