Some color on text messages:
The prohibition is against coaches sending text messages to prospective student athletes. The player can send text messages to coaches. If a player does receive a text message from a coach, his eligibility is unaffected. The prohibition doesn't apply to seniors who have either signed an athletically related offer of admission, or have made a deposit in response to a general offer of admission.
There are 4 separate proposals now under consideration for D1 that would lift the restriction on texting, with variously August 1, September 1, or the first day of classes for a junior as the first allowable date. It is extremely likely that next year text messages to juniors will be permitted.
The primary reason to change the rule is that many recruits now have phones which receive both email and texts. Seems a little ridiculous to restrict one and not the other.