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Social media policy for players like Iowa does(no twitter)?
Agree, I think it is good.
However, kids disagree and the recruiting might reflect that.
Everyone thinks they are entitled to float every idiotic idea that pops into their brain out there for the entire world to see.
Sort of like what we do here, actually.
Social media policy for players like Iowa does(no twitter)?
I don't have a problem with the Twitter ban and don't think it has any impact on recruiting.
Then you are totally out of touch with the importance of social media to you people. It absolutely has an effect on recruiting in a negative way.
Then you are totally out of touch with the importance of social media to you people. It absolutely has an effect on recruiting in a negative way.
Sure, Chrissy. Please post proof that a Twitter ban has impacted recruiting.
That is like asking someone to post proof that having a better RB than Mark Weisman would have effected wins and losses or building a new football complex has a positive impact on recruiting. There is no way to post hard evidence. I wouldn't ask you to post proof that a twitter ban doesn't effect recruiting. I'm smarter than that.
What I can tell you like stated above when players leave the program they quickly run to twitter. When players get offers they immediately post it on Twitter. I have a teenager and spend time around teenagers so I understand; no matter how disappointingly, that social media is very important to them. Working in Human Resources I can tell you that social media and mobile is the most important thing in getting the attention of young talent.
Iowa is basically telling 18 year old people that they are not mature enough to handle Twitter. That simply is not a message that they will be receptive. The idea of creating the brand of "not sexy", "we're just little Iowa", no special jerseys, No twitter; is not a successful concept that attracts recruits. The best evidence I can give you is recruiting results.
To often people think everything about Twitter is evil. Yes you hear about the bad things and the trolls going crazy when team/player doesn't play well. But it's not all bad. Twitter is a huge format that people of HS and college age use. Fran doesn't have the ban and I haven't heard of a problem.
For the record, Fran did for a time last year.
In the most Ferentzian coaching move by Fran McCaffery we’ve seen so far in his short tenure at Iowa, members of his team are not allowed to have Twitter accounts for the remainder of the season.
McCaffery said he told all his players to deactivate their Twitter accounts during his teleconference on Monday, a day before Iowa travels to Minneapolis to take on a reeling Minnesota squad. The ban is a response to all the negative attacks senior forward Zach McCabe received on the social-media site following his missing a 3-point shot that would have tied Iowa with Wisconsin with 17 seconds remained in an eventual 79-74 loss on Feb. 22.
Iowa players will be able to resume tweeting once the season over, which is merciful compared with Iowa football head coach Kirk Ferentz, who does not allow members of his squad to have any connection to Twitter as Hawkeyes. Ferentz has had the Twitter ban on his squad since 2010, when estranged wide receiver Derrell Johnson-Koulianos decided to exercise his First Amendment rights in a manner that Ferentz didn’t find becoming of his football players.
McCabe responded to negative criticism with his own expletive-filled outburst on Twitter. He deleted the Tweet nine minutes after posting, but the damage was done. It appears for now that players are still able to have presences on Instagram, Facebook, and Google Plus.
Nationally ranked Kansas, Duke, Arizona, and Iowa State all have players and/or coaches with active Twitter accounts.
Iowa now joins Minnesota as the only teams in the Big Ten where its players are on Twitter probation. Minnesota head coach Richard Pitino banned Twitter just last week for his players.
http://www.dailyiowan.com/2014/02/25/Sports/36783.html
Maybe Iowa should ban Facebook next. And Myspace. And Tumblr. And Reddit. And Snapchat. And mass emails. And Tinder. Just to be safe, let's keep all smartphones in Mr. Ferentz's desk when a recruit signs a LOI and they can get it back when they graduate. Or transfer.
The "hard evidence" is that most national programs do not have a ban, and the few that do are not doing well, at least in college basketball according to your article.
I see some of the same people who are against flashy uniforms are for banning twitter. I will say it again. It doesn't matter what you or I are for . It is about the 17 year olds we are trying to impress. And when we already have a reputation of playing a boring style we should help ourselves all we can.