Twitter Post..

[mrj]

Whats up with the post about tweeting at student athletes? 

[hhcmatt]

Maybe I overshoot a little bit with the "HHC" twitter account.

I've seen numerous tweets about "hey, lay off the football players....they're going through a rough time"

Why not always lay off them?

[mrj]

I could not agree with you more about never tweeting at them. Any grown man tweeting at student athletes should have there man card revoked. It's just wrong!

[Silverbacked1]

Yeah that is what those 15 year old girl's keep telling me.

[Red Rum]

Yeah that is what those 15 year old girl's keep telling me.

 

And the cops

[a0t0w0]

Yeah that is what those 15 year old girl's keep telling me.

 

Almost liked because I saw the intent, then considered computer being screened...

 

Love the tweet.  Maybe as basketball fans we really focus on fewer players, but I could NEVER imagine a world where it's okay to act like college athletes are rock stars that have to have all of the answers.

 

My sincere hope is that your tweet brought perspective to at least one irrational DB. 

[Ron Mexico]

I follow almost our entire bball team on twitter and lot of football players but I would never tweet direction to them. Something about doing that just seems very wrong.

[49r]

Yeah, tweeting athletes/recruits is just plain dumb.

[atskooc]

I don't follow any athletes on Twitter (well, other than Brandon Ubel). 

 

If one of them says something worth wile, one of the media guys I follow will retweet it. 

[Nighthawk]

I don't follow any athletes on Twitter (well, other than Brandon Ubel). 

 

If one of them says something worth wile, one of the media guys I follow will retweet it. 

agree...that's kind of my feeling about following recruits. I don't see much use following HS kids and their tweets. if they have something worth saying about the U then the press will say it. or it will be retweeted by the other fans that follow.

[Handy Johnson]

"Funny" when you're winning no one EVER mentions the age of a student/athlete, but when you're losing it's, "hey what do you expect they're only 18 & 19 year old kids". Maybe we should just powder their a** and give 'em a cupcake...

[Silverbacked1]

I think it is because we are winning we don't say bad things or call out guys then hide behind our fake names.

[atskooc]

I'm not hiding behind my fake name; I'm speaking truth with it!

[Handy Johnson]

I was speaking to a different phenomenon mainly regarding the Football program. Anyone tweeting to a stranger half your own age and following a recruit on the twitter is REALLY beyond help though... just 1 old man's take

[Silverbacked1]

I was speaking to a different phenomenon, anyone tweeting to a stranger half your age is really beyond help...

Glad I don't tweet much because I would be twice the age of most that read tweeter.

[Handy Johnson]

See above post, just trying to add some clarity. I still have an 8-track player for Christ's sake, so all of this social media fascination mystifies me.

[atskooc]

I have an 8-track player, and I'm adept at social media.

 

So there! 

 

[Handy Johnson]

It's not about proficiency, it's about interest. I sit at Twins games and there is an unending stream of tweets on the ribbon board. I don't CARE what every dumba** up and down the street has to say about anything...

[jimmykc]

Do you mean to say they now have developed a 9-track player? What won't they think of next?