Following a few suspect tweets by team members, Coach Mike Leach has announced that Texas Tech players are now banned from Twitter altogether. SportingNews also reports that one of the offending Twitterers, offensive lineman Brandon Carter, was "suspended indefinitely for violating team rules and his Twitter page was nowhere to be found."
The tweets that reportedly prompted the drastic move aren't necessarily tweets that reflect poor social media judgment, but they do highlight discord and disappointment within team ranks, and don't portray Leach or team morale in a positive light.
Under his former Twitter name, @kos39, Marlon Williams tweeted, "Wondering why I'm still in this meeting room when the head coach can't even be on time to his on meeting."
Meanwhile, after a team loss, Brandon Carter, who was @BCSLAM on Twitter, openly expressed his malcontent saying, "This is not how I saw our season. I just cried like am idiot. I want us to be so good.my last year and I feel like I'm letting everyone down."
While we understand the move made by Coach Leach and his desire to protect the team's interests, we do think it to be a rather drastic decision. Just as the SEC let commonsense prevail after initially banning social media from college stadiums, we hope to see Texas Tech revise their ban in favor of more reasonable social media policies.