College Football Team Banned from Social Media for Duration of Season
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Sometimes teams will actually try and pre-empt these kinds of issues before they are allowed to gain any traction. During training the St. Louis Rams actually had their players take a social media course, for instance, but now a college team has taken it one step further. The Clemson Tigers coaching staff have outright banned all their players from using social media until the season is through. This includes Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and even Snapchat.
Beyond simply keeping the players out of trouble, the move seems to be intended to put a barrier between the team and any negativity that might bubble up online if they lose a game or anything else goes wrong. More than anything else though, it's a focus thing. The brass clearly think that limiting contact with anything outside of football will help the players maintain motivation throughout the season.
That's one way of looking at it, anyway. It could also be argued that whilst freedom from distraction and negativity will help the players in the short term, it will leave them less equipped to deal with the social media side of things later on in their careers. No NFL team is likely actually ban social media usage, so any Clemson players who get drafted might end up struggling to cope with it, without the benefit of prior experience, especially given that once they enter the NFL, their popularity will almost invariably sky-rocket.
Alternately, it could just as easily avail the players of a kind of detachment from social media, resulting in them limiting their usage of it permanently. Some teams like their players to have a strong social media presence but there are far more examples of it causing problems than creating benefits. If this works well, it might set off a trend amongst other college ball teams until the 'social media blackout' eventually becomes standard procedure.
Callum Davies
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College Football Team Banned from Social Media for Duration of Season
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