social media
A.D.ministration: Improving your LinkedIn presence
Even though LinkedIn was created with corporate world professionals in mind, athletic administrators are beginning to use the site to network, exchange ideas and promote their programs. As Steffen Parker wrote in an article for the National Federatio...
J.J. Watt: Read each tweet 95 times before sending
NFL star J.J. Watt offered up some social media advice this week while attending the Gatorade Athlete of the Year awards. [caption id="attachment_13442" align="alignright" width="210"] Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt encourages kids to be...
Bret Bielema talks social media’s impact on recruiting
Coaches are always watching. And for student-athletes hoping to land a college athletic scholarship, that's something they must never forget. [caption id="attachment_13429" align="alignright" width="258"] Arkansas football coach Bret Bielema speak...
Dealing with Social Media
https://youtu.be/mQuDXhiEjYE Charles Welde, wide receivers coach at Victor Valley College in California, talks about why coaches and athletes must be careful about what they post on social networks....
College baseball player dismissed for offensive tweet
Bloomsburg University (Pennsylvania) baseball player Joey Casselberry was dismissed from the team this weekend after using Twitter to make an inappropriate remark about Little League star Mo'ne Davis. [caption id="attachment_11258" align="alignri...
Study: 45% of college athletes have no social media training
Fieldhouse Media this week released the results of its third annual social media survey, examining the use of social platforms by collegiate athletes. The information provides some insight into how student-athletes use networks like Facebook and Twit...
Helping coaches create social media guidelines for their teams
As coaches, we all feel comfortable teaching offensive and defensive fundamentals to our student-athletes. We don’t think twice about offering them guidance on how to excel academically, and we do not hesitate to intervene if we see or hear about p...
North Dakota Coaches Go Barefoot For Charity
The Associated Presshttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/basketball/ncaa/wires/12/07/2060.ap.bkc.samaritan.s.feet.1st.ld.writethru.1014/ More than 25 years ago, a missionary in Nigeria gave a 9-year-old boy his first pair of shoes and told him to dr...