Texas Tech coach Mike Leach has taken a stand against Twitter, and social media in general. According to Fanhouse, he made it clear that “Anybody that wants to play for us doesn’t have a Twitter page.”

This firm stance against the micro-blogging service stemmed from an incident where a player tweeted a sarcastic comment about the coach being late to a team meeting. According to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, linebacker Marlon Williams wondered why he was still in a meeting room when “the head coach can’t even be on time.” Since then, the tweet has been deleted and his page  is now where to be found.

This little Twincident (yeah, I just made that up, see if it takes off), begs a larger question. Who is in the wrong? Moreover, should the NCAA come up with social media policies similar to the NFL or the NBA ? Read the rest of this entry »