Great article on watching how you behave on social media sites. This applies not only to college athletes, but also to prospective applicants in the perspective job market as well. . Kim Klement/USA TODAY Sports If you’re a prospective college star, your social media presence could cost you a scholarship. Georgia Bulldogs coach Mark Richt revealed this weekend that he dropped a recruit from the 2014 class because of his behavior on Twitter. Via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “There’s guys that we drop from the recruiting process because of things that we may find out on a visit. They may come and one of our current players will say, ‘Coach, he’s not going to make it around here.’ Or we had one kid last year because of what he had on social media. He had some stuff on social media that we didn’t like.” Richt said the the player, whom he didn’t name, tried to hide his presence on Twitter after he was first contacted by the team, but Georgia discovered his tweets and decided to rescind the offer. “We told (the kid and) we told his coach (that) we don’t condone that, and he was a guy who was already committed to Georgia. And he persisted. Well, actually he changed his (Twitter) handle and continued to do that kind of thing thinking we wouldn’t find out. And we found out about it, and we cut him.” Dont ever forget in all situations - CHARACTER COUNTS!
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 12:15:01 +0000
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