Texas Tech players banned from Twitter

Posted by Lisa Wyczesany on 9/30/09 • Categorized as Technology

Texas Tech Football coach Mike Leach said Monday that he banned all his players from using Twitter – this announcement came shortly after linebacker Marlon Williams tweeted about his coach being late to a team meeting. “Wondering why I’m still in this meeting room when the head coach can’t even be on time to his on (sic) meeting”, Williams wrote in his Tweet.

Texas Tech fans and Twitter fans in general all seem to have a negative say in the events as they unfolded and as they continue to cause a stir.

salazmi1 (Fort Worth, Texas) C’mon Coach Leach! lol… RT @tweetmeme: Texas Tech Football Coach Calls Twitter Users Narcissists http://retwt.me/pGQp (via @mashable) #fb 29 Sep 2009 from TweetDeck

21stcentskills (Maine) Texas Tech Football Coach ‘Twitter is stupid . . . don’t want to listen to some narcissist talk about himself.’ Mad b/c player tweeted. 30 Sep 2009 from TweetDeck

MetalLungies (New York) Dj01: Why do I get the feeling Mike Leech of Texas Tech has never tried twitter, seems pretty ignorant. 30 Sep 2009 from UberTwitter

Leach’s statement went as far as calling Twitter users, specifically college football players, “a bunch of narcissists that want to sit and type stuff about themselves all the time. We’ll put mirrors in some of their lockers if that’s necessary but they don’t have to Twitter.”

This Twitter ban has even started to spark other sports teams, such as the Milwaukee Bucks, to forbid any player in the arena to Tweet.

Twitter users continue to react to these bans and wonder how far they will go.

dolphinsrule23 (undisclosed) @SportsNation No I wouldn’t ban my players from twitter because I would want my players to keep their fans updated of what my team is doing. 29 Sep 2009 from web in reply to SportsNation

kixx714 (undisclosed) Jumping on the twitter ban-wagon 29 Sep 2009 from web

MerryMorud (Duluth, Minnesota) Checked score of Twins game on twitter search instead of ESPN. Easier. -Y sports shouldn’t ban use of Social Media esp twitter 30 Sep 2009 from TwitterBerry

shineandfine (Maryland) just voted “No” on “Were the Redskins right to ban Twitter at practices?” vote too ➔ http://bit.ly/s0iEC 30 Sep 2009 from POLLpigeon