"You know, if you bump into a kid and you say more than hello, that's a no-no," Self said. "Sometimes those are relatively unavoidable, but still, by the letter of the law, those are not right.
"But there's some of them that, you know, you may not even know is even a violation."
Self was cited for an impermissible contact last July when he was in Peoria and recruit Brian Randle told him he was committing to Illinois, the Post-Dispatch said. Under NCAA rules during that time period, Self was allowed to exchange greetings but nothing more.
