That whole thing about Jim Harbaugh accusing Michigan of admitting players of, let’s say, meager intelligence? Marques Slocum is out to prove that Harbaugh was actually giving the Wolverine program too much credit.
From the content to the comments, this will be the funniest thing you read all week. I promise. Thanks, as always, to Every Day Should Be Saturday.
I continue to be astounded by people who haven’t yet realized that everyone can read what you put on the internet. Hell, I’m probably disqualified from ever running for public office based on things I posted on rec.sport.football.college 11 years ago. Still, back in the mid-1990’s when the internet actually was a series of tubes, most of us didn’t really consider the possiblility that what we wrote would be recorded forever. These kids grew up with Google and the internet from a very young age. One would think that the fact that everything on the internet is essentially on file for eternity would be rather apparent.
I hope the coaches in Happy Valley have had a long discussion with their players about Facebook/Myspace profiles. Surely some embarrassing stuff would’ve leaked out by now (uh, those of you with Facebook access, time to start looking!) It’s perfectly okay to have such profiles, provided the players realize that it’s for public consumption and ridicule. There’s no such thing as an expectation of privacy on the internet.
Any thoughts on this? Should coaches and universities be policing these sites to make sure their players aren’t embarrassing the institution or team? Is it much ado about nothing?
2 responses so far ↓
Cock D // August 23, 2007 at 4:55 am
Guh.
I am so glad I went to college a decade ago. Between camera phones and the social networking sites, I would have been in big trouble when looking for a job.
I love the college kids now: I am going to put pix of me half naked smoking-up on MySpace. So I always enjoy looking out on the series of tubes to find what exactly they have on their site. Then ask them about it in their interviews.
“So, you like to duct tape 40s to your hands and drink them.”
The act isnt what damns them, its the response.
Good Response = Yeah - we work hard, we play hard. Like to get a little crazy on the weekend.
Bad Response = Uh…… (stammering and blushing) my roommate logged onto my account and posted that picture of me.
Fun to watch the responses you get. But thank god I am on the proper side of the desk for that exchange.
Hawkeye State // August 23, 2007 at 10:56 am
Should coaches be watching Myspace/Facebook/whatever else is available for stupid pictures? Given the recent problems here, yeah, maybe. But should we be making this big a deal of it all? Probably not.
The Douglas/Bowman/Nelson pictures are probably a little embarrassing for the program (oh, who are we kidding; they’re ridiculously embarrassing), but they aren’t necessarily showing anything you don’t see from any other college kid on any other day.
OPS posted an article today on this local schrutebag who is trying to get other players busted for Myspace pictures. When Iowa’s Carl Monday has taken it on himself to rat out kids for being kids, we may have crossed a line.
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