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Lane Kiffin, meet Web 2.0.
Facebook, Twitter, et al … let’s just call it Web 2.0 for short (@apocalippz is gonna roast me for my obvious lack of coolness on the subject). Social media isn’t just for 12-year-olds with sparkly Myspace graphics, nor for pederasts anonymously cruising for 12-year-olds with sparkly Myspace graphics. It’s big business with everybody from major corporations such as Dell hawking their wares to pithy blogs letting their tens of readers know there new drivel on the site, down to local watering holes tweeting the latest happy hour specials.
Savvy users can also have their tweets sent to their Facebook as a status message. Your Facebook account will then display whatever you just tweeted in your status on everybody’s Wall.
So, before we move any further … you go on Twitter to tweet, your tweet is relayed to Facebook which puts the tweet up as your status and everything’s in synch. Everybody got that?
Sweet. Apparently Lane Kiffin gets it, too. What he (or allegedly somebody tweeting as him) does not get, however, is what constitutes an NCAA violation.
We need to tweet this up to 88 mph!
We already talked about Kiffin’s moral stance on signing convicted rapists (our sponsors request that you please read the rest of this post before posting your snarky Chaisson rants ad nauseum). Now Kiffin’s getting the Vols into NCAA trouble before his team ever hits the field.
Even Kelvin Sampson likely knows that you cannot talk about a recruit until he’s actually signed the LOI. In fact, I think that may be one rule that even Sampson didn’t break (my lord, if he ever figures out Twitter, we might need to set up a separate blog).
Kiffin, or Kiffin’s tweeting surrogate posing as the L-Train, last week updated his Facebook status with the following tweet:
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I was so excited to hear that J.C. Copeland committed to play for the Vols today!
In Web 2.0 parlance vis-a-vis NCAA rules (they’ll get around to monitoring social media as soon as they figure out that confounded text messaging first), that’s akin to not only handing an athlete an envelope full of 100 dollar bills, but doing it in front of tens of thousands of people and announcing to everyone that that’s what you’re doing.
Go buy yourself somethin' nice, OJ.
Kiffin should probably get some backslaps from the SEC inbreds brass. As the leaders in creative cheating, Kiffin has now given them new avenues to explore and is forging a new, 21st-Century rule-breaking trails. Way to stay on (rocky) top, SEC!
