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College coaches, including Sadler, flock to Twitter
Lincoln Journal Star
He's got some work to do to catch up to Ashton Kutcher, but Doc Sadler is on the climb, another face in the Twitter crowd.
Perhaps you know about the Twitter phenomenon. Perhaps you don't give a tweet. But plenty of coaches do, and Sadler is one of them.
The Husker men's basketball coach just became part of the Twitter explosion a couple weeks ago. So give Sadler a little time to gain on the 1.6 million "followers" Kutcher's Twitter account has, or even the more than 2,700 that follow each "tweet" of LSU football coach Les Miles.
"A twittering kind of guy," Miles recently described himself.
Certainly such words never crossed the lips of Bear Bryant and Bob Devaney, but forgive Miles. Such are the times and he's hardly alone. The social networking site Twitter.com is becoming a popular locale for coaches looking for a closer connection with fans, and just as importantly, a recruiting edge.
On Twitter, a person sends microblogs of 140 characters or less (similar in length to a text message you might receive on a cell phone) that hopefully provides a simple answer to a simple question: What are you doing right now? These updates are known as "tweets."
Since joining Twitter, Sadler has already gained almost 200 "followers" who have subscribed to see the coach's latest tweets.
"Unfortunately, I think most of the people our age are not as technical as maybe the people that follow your program," said Sadler, whose assistants are also on Twitter. "It's just another avenue to maybe get to know you."
Husker football coach Bo Pelini is not yet part of the Twitter craze, though a spokesman said the idea of Pelini doing it is something that will be considered.
But we do know that Sadler, Pelini and Husker wrestling coach Mark Manning played golf on April 28. A Sadler tweet told us: Pelini and Sadler beat manning on a golf course alot of fun. Doc Sadler
And we also know that Sadler watched the NBA playoffs at sister-in-law Jean Ann Sadler's house on Thursday night. Another tweet.
Some take it much more seriously than others. USC head football coach Pete Carroll tweets often. He's got more than 17,000 followers and even tweets a song of the day. Wednesday's song was "Miss You" by The Rolling Stones.
New Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari is on Twitter. Of course, so is Tennessee football coach Lane Kiffin. He's been everywhere else. Why wouldn't he be there?
And Miles? That twittering kind of guy? He takes it seriously enough that he's supposedly going to have a staff assistant tweet right before games, at halftime and after games.
"Absolutely, it's for recruiting purposes," Miles told USA Today. "It allows us to communicate, to those people that subscribe, blasts of information. … It's also an opportunity for those prospects that subscribe to communicate to us."
Indeed, that is certainly the most alluring aspect of Twitter. As long as coaches don't use it to contact recruits on an individual basis, the NCAA finds no fault with coaches using it.
"It's just another avenue to reach out to people and do it legally," Sadler said.
Manny Ramirez commentary is also allowed.
A Pete Carroll tweet: bummer manny went that way ... we love him, but it hurts ... now it's all about opportunity for juan pierre ... could he be the new wally pipp?
Minutes after that, another tweet. Rest assured, Carroll had picked his song of the day and fans of The Doors would be happy.
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Doc's Twitter account
Bo's Twitter account Pelini is now on it.
also check out his listed website:http://ath-cybersports.unl.edu/nebraskafb/
Lincoln Journal Star
He's got some work to do to catch up to Ashton Kutcher, but Doc Sadler is on the climb, another face in the Twitter crowd.
Perhaps you know about the Twitter phenomenon. Perhaps you don't give a tweet. But plenty of coaches do, and Sadler is one of them.
The Husker men's basketball coach just became part of the Twitter explosion a couple weeks ago. So give Sadler a little time to gain on the 1.6 million "followers" Kutcher's Twitter account has, or even the more than 2,700 that follow each "tweet" of LSU football coach Les Miles.
"A twittering kind of guy," Miles recently described himself.
Certainly such words never crossed the lips of Bear Bryant and Bob Devaney, but forgive Miles. Such are the times and he's hardly alone. The social networking site Twitter.com is becoming a popular locale for coaches looking for a closer connection with fans, and just as importantly, a recruiting edge.
On Twitter, a person sends microblogs of 140 characters or less (similar in length to a text message you might receive on a cell phone) that hopefully provides a simple answer to a simple question: What are you doing right now? These updates are known as "tweets."
Since joining Twitter, Sadler has already gained almost 200 "followers" who have subscribed to see the coach's latest tweets.
"Unfortunately, I think most of the people our age are not as technical as maybe the people that follow your program," said Sadler, whose assistants are also on Twitter. "It's just another avenue to maybe get to know you."
Husker football coach Bo Pelini is not yet part of the Twitter craze, though a spokesman said the idea of Pelini doing it is something that will be considered.
But we do know that Sadler, Pelini and Husker wrestling coach Mark Manning played golf on April 28. A Sadler tweet told us: Pelini and Sadler beat manning on a golf course alot of fun. Doc Sadler
And we also know that Sadler watched the NBA playoffs at sister-in-law Jean Ann Sadler's house on Thursday night. Another tweet.
Some take it much more seriously than others. USC head football coach Pete Carroll tweets often. He's got more than 17,000 followers and even tweets a song of the day. Wednesday's song was "Miss You" by The Rolling Stones.
New Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari is on Twitter. Of course, so is Tennessee football coach Lane Kiffin. He's been everywhere else. Why wouldn't he be there?
And Miles? That twittering kind of guy? He takes it seriously enough that he's supposedly going to have a staff assistant tweet right before games, at halftime and after games.
"Absolutely, it's for recruiting purposes," Miles told USA Today. "It allows us to communicate, to those people that subscribe, blasts of information. … It's also an opportunity for those prospects that subscribe to communicate to us."
Indeed, that is certainly the most alluring aspect of Twitter. As long as coaches don't use it to contact recruits on an individual basis, the NCAA finds no fault with coaches using it.
"It's just another avenue to reach out to people and do it legally," Sadler said.
Manny Ramirez commentary is also allowed.
A Pete Carroll tweet: bummer manny went that way ... we love him, but it hurts ... now it's all about opportunity for juan pierre ... could he be the new wally pipp?
Minutes after that, another tweet. Rest assured, Carroll had picked his song of the day and fans of The Doors would be happy.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Doc's Twitter account
Bo's Twitter account Pelini is now on it.
also check out his listed website:http://ath-cybersports.unl.edu/nebraskafb/
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