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Post by 50slantstrong on May 8, 2018 11:06:31 GMT -6
Long story short...a player on the team is addicted to twitter. Normally he posts the mumbo jumbo about how "it's my time to eat" "doing agilities, gettin this work!", "#riseandgrind", and other overused millennial athlete cliches. He probably averages between 30-40 tweets a day and it's obvious he's a kid who uses social media to create a facade.
Last night he tweeted that we are going to go 10-0. I'm kind of dumbfounded; not that I think we're going to be bad or that I mind having kids with confidence, but there's no warrant for it, especially considering he's not the hardest working kid in the program either.
What do you recommend, Huey brethren? Do I call him out and put him in his place, do I cordially remind him about social media etiquette or do I look past it and chalk it up to just another stupid tweet?
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Post by coachmonkey on May 8, 2018 11:11:24 GMT -6
I would pull him aside and mention that it was pointed out that you have posted some things that are not in the best interest of the program. We like your confidence, but posts like this are going to help motivate the teams we play. Rather than posting about how great we will be just keep working hard like you have been and let your play on the field do the talking for you, and us.
Then I'd probably remind him (if he is looking to play college ball at all) college coaches check out social media, and posts like that would turn them off to him as a recruit. They are looking for reasons to NOT recruit and not reasons TO recruit you.
Something like that.
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Post by JoshC on May 8, 2018 11:13:06 GMT -6
I've just reminded kids to be smart on social media, and that anything they say can come back to bite them. "Fun smack talk is fine, just make not to say something that makes you, your family, or your program look foolish."
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Post by JoshC on May 8, 2018 11:14:43 GMT -6
Bring up Josh Allen too. He's a perfect example of a high school kid tweeting stupid stuff and then having it get found out many years later.
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Post by bluedevil4 on May 8, 2018 11:16:38 GMT -6
A kid predicting his team going undefeated on social media is nothing to be concerned about IMO, kids get excited and say things like that all the time. I think you should be concerned once the tweets start involving criticism of the team, school, or program, or begins name-dropping people in the program for various reasons, or when his tweets start becoming directed at other players, programs, and schools.
I'd also be careful about micro-managing here. I understand the need to address social media use with players, but managing "stupid tweets," I don't think is necessary. Kids say stupid things all the time, and we'd run ourselves into the ground trying to manage every stupid thing they say. The concern should be tweets that might be damaging to your program or the student.
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Post by larrymoe on May 9, 2018 20:45:47 GMT -6
Bring up Josh Allen too. He's a perfect example of a high school kid tweeting stupid stuff and then having it get found out many years later. I think using Josh Allen as a way to make a moral point is a little moot this draft when the #1 pick grabbed his dick on national TV repeatedly and got arrested for being a drunken idiot. |
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Post by Sparkey on May 10, 2018 4:49:00 GMT -6
You can’t fix stupid coach!
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2018 5:27:39 GMT -6
Theres articles out there about several players who have had offers pulled because of their social media accounts
Show them that
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Post by coachcb on May 10, 2018 7:56:25 GMT -6
Honestly, there really is no positive end-game if you approach him about that specific tweet. He's being overzealous, for sure, but it's hard to approach a kid when he's being positive about the program. Most high school kids aren't going to hear you say "hey, your enthusiasm is great but I need you to tone it down a bit as the season hasn't even started." He's going to hear "blah...blah...blah... We're going to suck next year."
With that being said, I would approach the whole team about your social media policy if you've got kids who are posting on social media constantly. There's a good chance they're gong to cause problems for the program if they keep it up. Our kids are absolutely addicted to social media and I have gotten after a few of them as AD about the crap they're posting.
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Post by 3rdandlong on May 10, 2018 8:03:05 GMT -6
The kids like that at my school usually get made fun of pretty bad by their peers so they end up stopping it. How do his teammates respond?
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Post by 50slantstrong on May 10, 2018 11:49:28 GMT -6
The kids like that at my school usually get made fun of pretty bad by their peers so they end up stopping it. How do his teammates respond? I'm pretty sure it's one of those things where they just tolerate the guy and ignore him as much as possible. He's basically the loud idiot in staff meetings who's not a bad teacher... |
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Post by 3rdandlong on May 10, 2018 12:03:38 GMT -6
I’m probably wrong to do this so maybe I’m not the best guy to listen to but I call those types out when they get lazy at practice or they miss practice or they show a bad attitude.
Example: “Let’s go finish the drill! I thought the grind never stops??!!”
Or Hey man “You might get away with that at the D1 bound woopty whoop camp but that don’t fly here.”
Some will say I’m making the kid an outcast but... but... but.... O well I don’t have an excuse lol.
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Post by groundchuck on May 10, 2018 12:05:20 GMT -6
We had some issues a few years ago (different school). The whole #riseandgrind stuff........OK whatever. Pick my battles.
I'd probably have a conversation with a kid for talking about being 10-0 along the lines of I love your confidence but don't tweet that. Then say when you tweet about the team it reflects on the whole program.
We had to remove a player about six years ago because he started tweeting that the coaches didn't know what they were doing and that he should play more. We informed him he needed to stop and informed him and his parents that continued behavior would lead to discipline. One week later he was at it again. Then we collected his gear and sent him home. Funny thing is the next fall he was back at it again saying his senior class was the last group with talent and all that. He is the typical look at me look at me person.
In 2016 we had a player say some very wrong/borderline illegal things on social media. Our AD and principal gave him two weeks which the super later commuted to one week........long story there but that's for another time.
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Post by 50slantstrong on May 10, 2018 12:41:00 GMT -6
The other funny thing I forgot to mention is he claims he's a LB and RB on twitter. All the highlights of himself he tweets over and over are of him playing DL, including his sophomore year, when he got in the second half of a game against a team that didn't know they could have 11 guys on the field.
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Post by Chris Clement on May 11, 2018 6:15:07 GMT -6
The worst thing he’s said is a guarantee of 10-0? This is not a battle worth fighting.
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Post by lmorris on May 11, 2018 6:31:42 GMT -6
I wish we had a couple of kids with that kind of confidence. When I took this team over this year, the kids were...."I hope we can win more than 1 game."
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