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Latest social media rule change comes with interesting, overwhelming consequences
- Updated: August 2, 2016
2:37 PM ET
While most of you were sleeping, a revolution in college football recruiting happened.
At midnight Monday, new NCAA legislation kicked in that allowed coaches to take actions — things such as like, favorite, retweet or tag — on social media platforms that “indicate approval of content that was generated by users of the platforms other than institutional staff members or representatives of an institution’s athletics interests.”
It went about as well as expected, if you’re a fan of train wrecks.
Hope the @NCAA is enjoying this madness, #ClickDontType
— Ryan Gunderson (@TheGundy) August 1, 2016
Within the first 20 minutes, one coach retweeted a commit who was retweeting a porn star, pictures of recruits’ girlfriends were flooding programs’ official sport Twitter accounts and objectionable song lyrics and slang were all over the place. Even head coaches got into the action, as TCU’s Gary Patterson, Nebraska’s Mike Riley, Arizona State’s Todd Graham, Utah State’s Matt Wells and Virginia Tech’s Justin Fuente were just some of the coaches frantically sharing every single post from a recruit that ever mentioned their school.
Yes, it was a positive step forward by the NCAA’s board of directors to understand it can’t possibly enforce previous social media embargos and the days of not publicizing a recruit before signing are long gone, but surely this isn’t what it intended?
So @OhioStateFB #ESPN 300 DT commit @HaskellGarrett tweet was just RT’d by @Utah_Football… pic.twitter.com/X2Fgc11Qoh
— Jeremy Crabtree (@jeremycrabtree) August 1, 2016
It’s already gotten to the point where a tweet from ESPN 300 defensive tackle and longtime Ohio State commitment Haskell Garett appeared on the official Utah football Twitter handle early Monday morning.
It’s just the tip of the iceberg, coaches say.
“Just wait until you see a tweet from a recruit that decommits,” a Big 12 recruiter that asked not to be identified said. “How many …
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