Farley bans players from using twitter?

[Hail Our Panthers]

I heard from a highly reliable source that the players are no longer allowed to use twitter. Then I saw a tweet that would confirm that from a player, whose account has since been deleted.

Has anyone heard of one of the players misusing Twitter..as in, posting something stupid/degrading/embarrassing/ect? I can understand why a coach would not want his players using twitter, but I can't justify banning everyone from twitter unless there was a misuse or something. It just seems like a good way to alienate some of your players IMO. Most of the players probably wouldn't care much, but for some, it would be a pretty big deal.

Maybe its just a temporary deal..my source seemed skeptical that it would last forever, I didn't ask for much detail

[Durf73]

Re: Farley bans players from using twitter?

Probably a good idea, today's generation puts a lot of stuff out there that I'm sure the coaching staff doesn't want them to say. Closes down a source of board material for the opponents locker room.

[BCPanther]

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Farley is a control freak, so it wouldn't really surprise me. At the same time, I am not sure I would trust 80 18-22 year olds with tons of different lifestyles, education levels and experiences to use the medium in a positive way...

[Trapped in California]

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clenz was referencing on cs.com that people were publicizing poor decisions. Unfortunately, its an issue of treating the symptom, rather than the problem.

[UNI83]

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Does this decision come from Farley...or somewhere else in the athletic department.

[JayJ79]

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I'd be surprised if this wasn't something that more and more coaches don't implement (if they haven't already), especially with the higher profile programs.

[UNI83]

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I'd be surprised if this wasn't something that more and more coaches don't implement (if they haven't already), especially with the higher profile programs.

Steve Spurrier has banned twitter at South Carolina.


And before Jay makes some dumb joke about him banning it all over campus, being some sort of feat, I'll clarify by mentioning it was only the football team.

[1988]

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I have a 15 year old son and it is amazing to me the access he is provided to the UNI players via Facebook. Football and basketball equally. It seems it is a race to get a lot of friends and they allow everyone to become a friend. The problem with Facebook is that you have more opportunity to see and hear more information. Twitter seems to be more emotional. I don't see how you can ban these guys from that stuff. They are kids.

[Trapped in California]

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[UNIBear]

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I remember reading tweets from players at half-time last year...and was wishing they were paying attention in the locker room, rather than tweeting about how they had to comeback in the 2nd half.
Perhaps the ban is during game day?

[9YRPLAN]

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there is no chance that i would allow any of my players to use twitter.

the media are not trying to track down all the good things players do and nice comments they make via twitter. people are looking to exploit the dumbass comment or misstep.

[jnutt]

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i follow some of the guys, holy buckets they tweet a lot. they are still up but haven't tweeted in hours. maybe its true about Farley

[UNI83]

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i follow some of the guys, holy buckets they tweet a lot. they are still up but haven't tweeted in hours. maybe its true about Farley

I was thinking the same. Normally my timberline is blown up by tweets from them, nithing today

[jegbomb52]

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This might be a Farley thing, this might be a department thing. It is the start of a new adminstrative year so more sports might follow suit. Either way, I am 100% supportive of this, nothing, and I mean nothing good can come from a college football players twitter account. So we aren't going to find out what kind of donuts the team got this morning at the dome before meetings, chucky darn...

[Born-a-Panther]

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I completely support and agree with this decision.