HS kids.....Twitter....and offers.....geez!!

One kid my boy played with Tweeted his commitment to the University of Texas A&M.

*shudder*

Ok, so one other tip.  Don't be a senior in HS tweeting about signing your NLI and then have your account full of you having a beer or two or twelve or ...  Also, don't have one of your tweets asking if anyone has some ... for the weekend.  Believe it or not, I just read an account with this stuff on it. 

CoachB25 posted:

Ok, so one other tip.  Don't be a senior in HS tweeting about signing your NLI and then have your account full of you having a beer or two or twelve or ...  Also, don't have one of your tweets asking if anyone has some ... for the weekend.  Believe it or not, I just read an account with this stuff on it. 

WOW!

And, let's not tweet about receiving offers.  

How would you feel if the girl you just asked to the prom tweeted: "So blessed to receive my 6th offer to go to the prom from Johnny Jones.  Humbled!"?  

Would it sound like she was just bragging or shopping your date offer looking for a better one?  Would you feel your date proposition was cheapened?

Commitments are ok, IMO.

Could we give some of this advice to the "adults" who post on disgracebook uh I mean Facebook? Lol

The false humility of NLI tweets ("so blessed and humbled to announce....") reminds me of family Christmas letters ("....meanwhile, our youngest, seven yr-old Bobby,  has been studying advanced physics on the computer...")

freddy77 posted:

The false humility of NLI tweets ("so blessed and humbled to announce....") reminds me of family Christmas letters 

I guess it's time to stop my family Christmas letters, all this time I thought you enjoyed receiving them! I agree though, the false humility is a little much. I want to see a kid post "Excited to go play ball at State U! " and leave it at that

freddy77 posted:

reminds me of family Christmas letters ("....meanwhile, our youngest, seven yr-old Bobby,  has been studying advanced physics on the computer...")

We might be related. I get similar letters from family.

Personally, I don't have a problem with any of it...which includes not having a problem with some of you who have a problem with it.  LoL  It's what they've work for so to each his own.

I know several football and to a lesser extent, baseball kids who have tweeted offers and commitments. They are still good kids who are humble and are excited about receiving offers. I'm talking about kids who I know personally. Social media is a big part of these kids lives as they are connected to players across the nation.  

I think Coach May summed it up best when he said adults need to learn what not to post as well. 

Kid in my area tweeted his offer from a high academic ACC school right when he got it, tweet was deleted within two days. rumor has it the coaching staff pulled the offer once he made it public to everyone, although that is only a rumor. i say keep the offer tweeting out of baseball and thats coming from a high school kids perspective, it is a tad obnoxious and just kids looking for hype at school.

How about tweeting the de-commitment? Saw that last week and almost passed out. "Truly blessed to announce I am changing my commitment from....to....."  

Tweeting the commitment is the easy part. Kid's forget what happens after you tweet your blessings.  Hard work to earn the opportunity to commit, but harder work to earn playing time in college.  Remember, the 8-10+ other kids in your class were "truly honored and blessed to commit" as well.

I'm not a big fan of cliche responses either.  But they just sort of deep in I guess.  I'm just blessed and humbled that my kid would prolly be pretty quiet and understated about things. JUST LIKE HIS OLD MAN.

mcloven posted:

And, let's not tweet about receiving offers.  

How would you feel if the girl you just asked to the prom tweeted: "So blessed to receive my 6th offer to go to the prom from Johnny Jones.  Humbled!"?  

Would it sound like she was just bragging or shopping your date offer looking for a better one?  Would you feel your date proposition was cheapened?

Commitments are ok, IMO.

 

It happens all the time with football and basketball. It's a way of saying thank you to the school for their offer publicly. It isn't like recruiters don't know schools they are going up against.

BrianTRC posted:

How about tweeting the de-commitment? Saw that last week and almost passed out. "Truly blessed to announce I am changing my commitment from....to....."  

Tweeting the commitment is the easy part. Kid's forget what happens after you tweet your blessings.  Hard work to earn the opportunity to commit, but harder work to earn playing time in college.  Remember, the 8-10+ other kids in your class were "truly honored and blessed to commit" as well.

The de-commitments usually begin with "after much prayer..." Like God told the kid, "Nah, you don't want to go to State U. They suck. Go to State Tech."