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The use of Twitter
and other social
media by college
athletes is care-
fully watched by
schools.
TEAMS & LEAGUES
post, too. The
Chicago Tribune
talked to sev-
eral prominent recruiters in 2013. The inter-
view subjects chose not to use their names
in the article, but they all agreed that post-
ing the wrong things can prevent a student
from earning a scholarship. “We just decided
this week to stop recruiting a handful of kids
we really liked because of different things we
saw on Twitter and Instagram,” a recruiter
from a Big Ten school told the
Tribune
.