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CU Guru [1832]
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Show Ray Ray some love
Dec 16, 2014, 1:13 AM
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I, for one, do not use Twitter, but I encourage any and all fans with Twitter to use it to show Ray Ray some love like we did with Huggie Bear.
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Trainer [26]
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Re: Show Ray Ray some love
Dec 16, 2014, 5:56 AM
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Yes sir, you get more with sugar than sh**
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Legend [19610]
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Unless you are talking flies.***
Dec 16, 2014, 8:24 AM
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Do recruits really, seriously base anything off of how
Dec 16, 2014, 8:48 AM
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much "love" they get from twitter? If so, that's just sad.
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Orange Blooded [2672]
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No
Dec 16, 2014, 9:06 AM
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It makes me cringe when I see these 40-60 year old men who only tweet at recruits #### like "HEY BO I SEEN UR GAME LAST NITE CNT W8 2 CU IN ORANGE!!! DONT GO TO FLORIDA WE WILL BE LIKE 1981 AGAIN!!"
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Re: No
Dec 16, 2014, 5:57 PM
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Why? They like it. If it becomes to much they wont read it as any movie stat wouldnt
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Re: No
Dec 16, 2014, 7:39 PM
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Is it weird you obsess over these kids on the football field? Cause I'm sure emotions are tied to the kids playing football
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Re: Do recruits really, seriously base anything off of how
Dec 16, 2014, 6:52 PM
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> much "love" they get from twitter? If so, that's just
> sad.
Not sad at all. Twitter to them is what 8 tracks and going to Dairy Queen was to us.
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Re: Do recruits really, seriously base anything off of how
Dec 16, 2014, 6:55 PM
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It makes me cringe when someone has a problem with someone else's positive support displays.
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Re: Do recruits really, seriously base anything off of how
Dec 17, 2014, 10:00 AM
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Having two teenage kids who were recruited .....yes, they pay attention to social media. It's a different world now days and we need to come along for the ride or get left behind.
They really big-time kids make it clear they want followers! It's an ego / competiton thing.
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CU Medallion [58411]
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Again, if it means not stroking a teenager's oversized
Dec 17, 2014, 10:44 AM
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ego, then I'm thrilled to be "left behind". I can't really believe grown men are participating in this foolishness. If a kid wants to play football at Clemson because he likes the coaches, is impressed by the facilities and the tradition, wants to compete at the highest level and win championships, get a great education, and in general enjoy the best 4-5 years of his life as he grows into a man at a special place like Clemson, then I welcome him with open arms. He can pay attention to social media all he wants, as long as he is basing his decision on the right things, I'm all for it. But, if he is seriously going to base such an important decision on how many people tell him how great he is and how badly is needed needed and wanted, then screw him - let him go to the dumpster fire in Columbia.
####, I pay attention to social media, and I have teenage kids. I fully realize it's impact on me and on them. I get it. But this isn't about me not understanding that or how the times are changing. It's about teenage kids basing important decisions on the wrong things, and grown men falling all over themselves to coddle them and give them "love" to further boost their already over-inflated egos, all in hopes that they will play football for "our" team. It's messed up.
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Re: Again, if it means not stroking a teenager's oversized
Dec 17, 2014, 11:11 AM
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You sound like a dinasaur. It's no big deal to say "looking forward to seeing you run down the hill at Clemson". It makes them feel love from the fanbase. It's not sucking up. It's not harassment. If you don't want to use Twitter or Instagram, then don't. But no need to bash people that do.
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Wow! In no way, shape, or form am I bashing people
Dec 17, 2014, 11:59 AM
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for using Twitter or Instagram. It's amazing that my point goes right over the head of so many, even after going to great lengths to make it clear. I'll try one more time:
I use social media myself. I enjoy it for the most part, and I understand how it works. I have college and high school kids, and I'm very, very familiar with the role it plays in their lives. I understand the benefits as well as the downside. I'm not against it in any way whatsoever. Understand?
This is a totally separate issue, and the problem I have: Kids should not in any way be basing their college choice on how much "love" (it's NOT love, by the way) they get from Twitter. It's beyond moronic. Yeah, it's okay to say "looking forward to seeing you run down the hill at Clemson", but it's sad when grown men are actively stroking the oversized ego of a teenager. I'll offer encouragement or congratulations to a good kid, but I will not compete in an ass-kissing contest to prove how much I want him at Clemson, and that's really what it is in many cases.
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Re: Wow! In no way, shape, or form am I bashing people
Dec 17, 2014, 12:19 PM
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Who said anything about kissing ####?
Eww
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Re: Show Ray Ray some love
Dec 16, 2014, 9:03 AM
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Or you know you can stop following 18 year olds around on twitter harassing them.
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If tweeting is more of a recruiting tool than
Dec 16, 2014, 7:50 PM
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what the Clemson coaches, to include home visits, and what university offers etc., then we are in very bad shape. Whether Ray-Ray is a Tiger or not will have nothing to do with tweeting.
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Re: If tweeting is more of a recruiting tool than
Dec 16, 2014, 7:55 PM
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Our coaches now use Twitter like they used a #2 pencil in class as teenagers. Times they are a changing .
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CU Medallion [58411]
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Completely, totally different, especially as it relates to
Dec 17, 2014, 9:26 AM
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the original post in this thread. The times are a-changing, we get that, and that is normal and perfectly fine. The tools and methods coaches must use to recruit change right along with all of that, but that's not at all what I'm talking about. What's sad, and downright pathetic, is the idea that a recruit, as the original poster suggests, would be influenced one way or another by how many "fans", many of whom are grown men, from a particular school are willing to suck up to them and stroke their teenage egos by giving them twitter-love. To further suggest that more of us should submit to that foolishness is absurd. It's got absolutely nothing to do with keeping up with the times.
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Re: Completely, totally different, especially as it relates to
Dec 17, 2014, 11:55 AM
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Call me what you want. Ego stroker or whatever may have you.
Why do you think the kids make their AVI some photoshopped edit of them playing football , or of them wearing team colors that there commuted to.
Even check the recruits bio's.
Heck, Kitt's twitter still says CU .
Other day tweeted should i stay or should i go.
I told him he mide as well stay!
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he "mide" as well "commute" to another skool...
Dec 17, 2014, 9:20 PM
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sigh...
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