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This is a topic that has been discussed before, but mostly for celebs and pro athletes.

Is twitter for college athletes a good thing?

I'm looking through some tweets from some of UNI's athletes, as well as athletes from other schools, (across multiple sports and conferences) and I am shocked at what I see. Tweets that admit to alcohol use under age, possible drug references (I don't know much about the drug world so I have no idea), tweets about how much sex they have had and with how many people, etc...

I'm surprised their handlers (coaches, compliance people, whatever) don't require them to "protect" their tweets, or whatever they call it that makes it so that only those that the athlete follows can see their tweets. I'm pretty sure many schools require athletes to "friends lock" (or whatever) their facebook pages.

Granted, I don't think any of those tweets are really all that bad, but it could stir up some cloudy PR, since college athletes are pretty much under the public microscope, and internet people have a tendancy to make mountains out of molehills.

Don't care. They are adults. They are now big boys and girls. There is too much coddling of folks these days. If they fuck up, they get to deal with it like the rest of us normal folk.

Well, I did get a kick out of Matt Szczur's tweet prior to last year's semi's.

EWURanger wrote:Well, I did get a kick out of Matt Szczur's tweat prior to last year's semi's.

Was it thanking GOD, ALLAH, BUDDHA, etc.... for allowing Bill Fette to referee the game?

This one:

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JayJ79 wrote:I'm surprised their handlers (coaches, compliance people, whatever) don't require them to "protect" their tweets, or whatever they call it that makes it so that only those that the athlete follows can see their tweets. I'm pretty sure many schools require athletes to "friends lock" (or whatever) their facebook pages.

Granted, I don't think any of those tweets are really all that bad, but it could stir up some cloudy PR, since college athletes are pretty much under the public microscope, and internet people have a tendancy to make mountains out of molehills.

You don't have a problem with players, and I'll admit it, from our football team basically admitting they were high/getting high?

Whatever your stance on illegal drugs are is one thing. However, it is still illegal and I don't really want to lose the players due to drugs.

clenz wrote:

JayJ79 wrote:I'm surprised their handlers (coaches, compliance people, whatever) don't require them to "protect" their tweets, or whatever they call it that makes it so that only those that the athlete follows can see their tweets. I'm pretty sure many schools require athletes to "friends lock" (or whatever) their facebook pages.

Granted, I don't think any of those tweets are really all that bad, but it could stir up some cloudy PR, since college athletes are pretty much under the public microscope, and internet people have a tendancy to make mountains out of molehills.

You don't have a problem with players, and I'll admit it, from our football team basically admitting they were high/getting high?

Whatever your stance on illegal drugs are is one thing. However, it is still illegal and I don't really want to lose the players due to drugs.

then the problem is the drug use, not the tweeting.
unless you're implying that tweeting leads to drug use.

JayJ79 wrote:

clenz wrote: You don't have a problem with players, and I'll admit it, from our football team basically admitting they were high/getting high?

Whatever your stance on illegal drugs are is one thing. However, it is still illegal and I don't really want to lose the players due to drugs.

then the problem is the drug use, not the tweeting.
unless you're implying that tweeting leads to drug use.

No...I'm implying that they are incriminating the living shit out of themselves and if someone in power reads that tweet and orders drug tests those players have no leg to stand on.

I follow most ASU players on twitter. I don't notice them posting anything incriminating or anything. They're probably told to be careful and that the coaches are reading what they post, etc.

clenz wrote:

JayJ79 wrote:
then the problem is the drug use, not the tweeting.
unless you're implying that tweeting leads to drug use.

No...I'm implying that they are incriminating the living shit out of themselves and if someone in power reads that tweet and orders drug tests those players have no leg to stand on.

They are adults. If they choose to post things that could hurt their chances to play football/attend college/be free/etc... that is their choice. Why should you or anyone else be nurturing them and covering up their misdeeds? If they want to be selfish and potentially hurt the team/themselves/their reputation it is on THEM....not some babysitter.

Twitter is a tool just like a hammer, a syringe or a rifle. All tools can be used for the benefit or detriment of people involved. Judge the person, their actions and intent, rather than the inanimate tool that does what user "tells it to do."

In the end, choices & actions have consequences.

if only ASU had forbidden players from using lawn mowers a couple years back.....

JayJ79 wrote:if only ASU had forbidden players from using lawn mowers a couple years back.....

if only eric sanders didn't get slippery fingers in chattanooga in 2005........