Coaching staffs, recruiting and twitter

[CuseLegacy]

Read this article this morning and it made think how much twitter is becoming a part of recruiting...for good or bad. We learn quickly about when a kid is going to visit, commits or if he isn't interested. Before this year SU FB was basically twitterless. Now Coaches Shafer, McDonald and Lea regularly tweet..and kids follow and retweet them.

Look how NC State is getting around talking about kids committing by name.

N.C. State builds football recruiting buzz through Twitter





Posted: Monday, June 10, 2013 1:01 pm | Updated: 5:21 pm, Mon Jun 10, 2013.
N.C. State builds football recruiting buzz through TwitterStaff writer David Morrisondavid.morrison@news-record.comnews-record.com
Posted on June 10, 2013
If you follow the Scout (PackPride.com) and Rivals (TheWolfpacker.com) sites that cover N.C. State recruiting, you know it's been a pretty busy morning for first-year coach Dave Doerenand staff.
First Tony Adams, an offensive lineman from Charlotte, committed to the Wolfpack.

Hope Mills athlete Jefferie Gibson followed suit a couple of hours later, making nine commits for N.C. State's Class of 2014.
Per NCAA rules, coaches are not allowed to comment on specific recruits until they have signed.
That being said, nothing is stopping them from making indirect pronouncements when they’ve secured a commitment, as long as they don’t include any identifying details about the player.
Then that's the signal for recruiting sites, newspaper writers and other media members to find out who the staff reeled in and get the message out.
And the buzz spreads.
N.C. State has been pretty adept and uniform in doing that with their "#Pack14" hashtag when it picks up a commit.
Pretty much all the coaches tweet something, then they each retweet each other to make a consistent stream of enthusiasm for a good while after they get the news.
Let's examine one of these feeding frenzies in its natural habitat, shall we?

I can't post all the tweets here but almost every coach when they get a commit will tweet some form of the coded #Pack14.

 

[RMH44]

Read this article this morning and it made think how much twitter is becoming a part of recruiting...for good or bad. We learn quickly about when a kid is going to visit, commits or if he isn't interested. Before this year SU FB was basically twitterless. Now Coaches Shafer, McDonald and Lea regularly tweet..and kids follow and retweet them.

Look how NC State is getting around talking about kids committing by name.

N.C. State builds football recruiting buzz through Twitter





Posted: Monday, June 10, 2013 1:01 pm | Updated: 5:21 pm, Mon Jun 10, 2013.
N.C. State builds football recruiting buzz through TwitterStaff writer David Morrisondavid.morrison@news-record.comnews-record.com
Posted on June 10, 2013
If you follow the (PackPride.com) and (TheWolfpacker.com) sites that cover N.C. State recruiting, you know it's been a pretty busy morning for first-year coach Dave Doerenand staff.
First Tony Adams, an offensive lineman from Charlotte, committed to the Wolfpack.

Hope Mills athlete Jefferie Gibson followed suit a couple of hours later, making nine commits for N.C. State's Class of 2014.
Per NCAA rules, coaches are not allowed to comment on specific recruits until they have signed.
That being said, nothing is stopping them from making indirect pronouncements when they’ve secured a commitment, as long as they don’t include any identifying details about the player.
Then that's the signal for recruiting sites, newspaper writers and other media members to find out who the staff reeled in and get the message out.
And the buzz spreads.
N.C. State has been pretty adept and uniform in doing that with their "#Pack14" hashtag when it picks up a commit.
Pretty much all the coaches tweet something, then they each retweet each other to make a consistent stream of enthusiasm for a good while after they get the news.
Let's examine one of these feeding frenzies in its natural habitat, shall we?

I can't post all the tweets here but almost every coach when they get a commit will tweet some form of the coded #Pack14.

Are you really Eric White hiding behind a female handle? ;-)

Your efforts are truly appreciated...great work.

 

[CuseLegacy]

Are you really Eric White hiding behind a female handle? ;-)

Your efforts are truly appreciated...great work.

Thanks...
I am thrilled that SU hired Eric. Sometimes we need young minds with fresh ideas.

 

[Franz69]

Every one of our coaches should be on Twitter and every one of them should tweet at least once a day. It's free, legal, not time-consuming and where the recruits are. No-brainer.

 

[cuseinchina]

I find twitter to be one of the most mindless forms of social media, and that's saying something given the state of social media in general. It's like someone riding down the street yelling random things out of their car window or something - there is very little context to what is being put out there. That said, 'the kids' love it, and it's very clear that some recruits are emotionally swayed by the amount of 'twitter love' they receive from a fan base. The fans on this site are two things - 1. among the most passionate cuse fans out there; 2. Internet savy. To have some unwritten rule that participants in this forum can't say 'come to cuse' to some kid on twitter because the NCAA might get us is really not the best of calls - it's controlling for one thing, and could hurt us in recruiting for another.

Many thousands of fans from all of the D-1 schools are out there on twitter trying to show the love some of these guys want to see. While it may seem silly, and believe me to me it seems completely stupid that anyone would be swayed by tweets from fans, this is definitely something that is a factor for a bunch of kids given what they've said after committing. And to think the NCAA could/would enforce something like this is a tremendous stretch. They'd have to go after every single school and would need to team up with the NSA wire-tap folks to get the kind of confirmation they would need to do anything. The spirit of the rules is clearly to prevent money, gifts, cars, houses etc to enter the recruiting equation - some 27 year old who gave $50 to the IPF saying 'rutgers sucks come to cuse' on a twitter page is not something that matters. Again I think the whole thing is a tremendous waste of time and is in some ways a really unhealthy form of new media and I don't even have a twitter account - but if our recruits want love, better to show it to them than to wonder if it might have made the difference.

 

[CuseLegacy]

I don't have a twitter account nor do I tweet. I view twitter as another "recruiting tool" that I find interesting in how it is being used by staffs. Tweeting may be the replacement for mass mailings... with schools "employing" the fan base to do some of the work.

 

[spo023]

I generally don't tweet at recruits but sometimes do if I see them ask for some love or see another school's person going after them. For example, A Providence University sports site tweeted at Kaleb Joseph, which he in turn retweeted "@kalebjoseph15 is one of the best PGs in the 2014 class. Athletic. Size. Versatile. Great Floor General, Scorer, Defender."

So i responded "@UndercoverFriar @kalebjoseph15 Exactly why he's gonna be a Syracuse Orangeman #CuseNation".

Nothing too extreme and keep it classy. And usually if a kid we were close to getting commits to another school, I say good luck, like i did to Ogundeko and Kevin McReynolds who went to UCLA last year.

 

[Whitey23]

I generally don't tweet at recruits but sometimes do if I see them ask for some love or see another school's person going after them. For example, A Providence University sports site tweeted at Kaleb Joseph, which he in turn retweeted "@kalebjoseph15 is one of the best PGs in the 2014 class. Athletic. Size. Versatile. Great Floor General, Scorer, Defender."

So i responded "@UndercoverFriar @kalebjoseph15 Exactly why he's gonna be a Syracuse Orangeman #CuseNation".

Nothing too extreme and keep it classy. And usually if a kid we were close to getting commits to another school, I say good luck, like i did to Ogundeko and Kevin McReynolds who went to UCLA last year.

 

[spo023]

I think you mean arrested by the NCAA and single-handedly just made Syracuse lose every available scholarship and postseason play

 

[OrangeMojo]

LOL

 

[anomander]

Read this article this morning and it made think how much twitter is becoming a part of recruiting...for good or bad. We learn quickly about when a kid is going to visit, commits or if he isn't interested. Before this year SU FB was basically twitterless. Now Coaches Shafer, McDonald and Lea regularly tweet..and kids follow and retweet them.

Look how NC State is getting around talking about kids committing by name.

N.C. State builds football recruiting buzz through Twitter





Posted: Monday, June 10, 2013 1:01 pm | Updated: 5:21 pm, Mon Jun 10, 2013.
N.C. State builds football recruiting buzz through TwitterStaff writer David Morrisondavid.morrison@news-record.comnews-record.com
Posted on June 10, 2013
If you follow the (PackPride.com) and (TheWolfpacker.com) sites that cover N.C. State recruiting, you know it's been a pretty busy morning for first-year coach Dave Doerenand staff.
First Tony Adams, an offensive lineman from Charlotte, committed to the Wolfpack.

Hope Mills athlete Jefferie Gibson followed suit a couple of hours later, making nine commits for N.C. State's Class of 2014.
Per NCAA rules, coaches are not allowed to comment on specific recruits until they have signed.
That being said, nothing is stopping them from making indirect pronouncements when they’ve secured a commitment, as long as they don’t include any identifying details about the player.
Then that's the signal for recruiting sites, newspaper writers and other media members to find out who the staff reeled in and get the message out.
And the buzz spreads.
N.C. State has been pretty adept and uniform in doing that with their "#Pack14" hashtag when it picks up a commit.
Pretty much all the coaches tweet something, then they each retweet each other to make a consistent stream of enthusiasm for a good while after they get the news.
Let's examine one of these feeding frenzies in its natural habitat, shall we?

I can't post all the tweets here but almost every coach when they get a commit will tweet some form of the coded #Pack14.

it is pretty refreshing seeing our coaches join the 21st century. like it or a majority of the kids they recruit are on twitter retweeting all the other schools coaches and fans. i think they have done a good job getting themselves out there, and skate around the rules just like the NCST article you posted above.

 

[TheCusian]

Our coaches do the same thing: "We just got stronger today" (paraphrased)...

 

[CuseLegacy]

Our coaches do the same thing: "We just got stronger today" (paraphrased)...

Yes but not to the degree of State..this is all there fb coaches tweeting it.
http://www.news-record.com/blogs/sports_extra/article_dd94bd8a-d1ee-11e2-baf4-001a4bcf6878.html

 

[money3189]

I was at a coaches clinic this past year when Marrone spoke. One of the things he couldnt stand about college football was social media. He talked about the state of college football and how he doesnt like what he sees. I imagine Marrone did not encourage his staff to tweet.

 

[oldpinepoint]

I was at a coaches clinic this past year when Marrone spoke. One of the things he couldnt stand about college football was social media. He talked about the state of college football and how he doesnt like what he sees. I imagine Marrone did not encourage his staff to tweet.

Says a lot right there.

 

[javadoc]

I was at a coaches clinic this past year when Marrone spoke. One of the things he couldnt stand about college football was social media. He talked about the state of college football and how he doesnt like what he sees. I imagine Marrone did not encourage his staff to tweet.

Suspected, but good to hear confirmed. No wonder the guy was so relieved to get out (among other contributing factors).

 

[anomander]

I was at a coaches clinic this past year when Marrone spoke. One of the things he couldnt stand about college football was social media. He talked about the state of college football and how he doesnt like what he sees. I imagine Marrone did not encourage his staff to tweet.

those are the types of things that make you feel we are under the right leadership right now. i can understand not liking social media, but totally disregarding it sets you behind. that's how a great number of recruits communicate with coaches these days. you can talk to an unlimited amounts of players at the same time if you chose. you can definitely see why he wanted out of the college game.

 

[SUFaninNJ]

I'll go out on a limb and guess Marrone isn't much of a texter either. Technology marches on whether people choose to embrace it or not.

 

[DCCuse]

I was at a coaches clinic this past year when Marrone spoke. One of the things he couldnt stand about college football was social media. He talked about the state of college football and how he doesnt like what he sees. I imagine Marrone did not encourage his staff to tweet.

I could tell you a few stories about that. The first time that I met Coach McDonald I thanked him for "being a breath of fresh air" with regards to embracing social media.

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[CuseLegacy]

1. Eric White‏@EricWhiteCuse17h
2. @44TheLegend we need to get your boy Rob Moore on Twitter #Showtime

• 1. Derrick Coleman‏@44TheLegend15h
  2. @EricWhiteCuse he don't line it

1. Eric White‏@EricWhiteCuse15h
   @44TheLegend he needs some pressure from his guy Derrick Coleman

They are trying to do the same as State...get all the coaches on Twitter and are now using the hashtag #cuse14.

Hey Eric...you lurking on here?

 

[Van111]

I could tell you a few stories about that. The first time that I met Coach McDonald I thanked him for "being a breath of fresh air" with regards to embracing social media.

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DC, just why many of us feel so different then anytime in the DM era or for the post Pasq years about recruiting. Even though it has been slow out of the gate, got to love the direction this program is going, and hence why I am hitting the road hard this year to support this team!

 

[DCCuse]

1. Eric White‏@EricWhiteCuse17h
2. @44TheLegend we need to get your boy Rob Moore on Twitter #Showtime

• 1. Derrick Coleman‏@44TheLegend15h
  2. @EricWhiteCuse he don't line it

1. Eric White‏@EricWhiteCuse15h
   @44TheLegend he needs some pressure from his guy Derrick Coleman

They are trying to do the same as State...get all the coaches on Twitter and are now using the hashtag #cuse14.

Hey Eric...you lurking on here?

Coach McDonald did say to me he was going to get all the coaches on...even if he had to drag the dinosaurs on screaming and kicking

 

[CuseLegacy]

Coach McDonald did say to me he was going to get all the coaches on...even if he had to drag the dinosaurs on screaming and kicking

Hey wait a minute we dinosaurs take offense at that.

 

[Texas Otto]

Hey wait a minute we dinosaurs take offense at that.

My daughter still thinks I rode a dinosaur to school when I was younger

 

[Noexcuse]

My daughter still thinks I rode a dinosaur to school when I was younger

I hope you told her dinosaurs and humans did not coexist