Texas Tech head coach Kliff Kingsbury went on The Hawkcast with A.J. Hawk (H/T Coaching Search). That sounds like something most teams do nowadays, but Kingsbury added something that veered off into a discussion.
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And yes, Kingsbury thinks some of his players are aware of the trick. “Those are heavily monitored, for sure”.
Kingsbury told Hawk if apps such as Instagram, Facebook and Tinder were a thing during his college days, he would have run into some trouble and would have fed on negative comments. Players take the bait because, well, men are idiots. Apparently, coaches at the school have created fake Twitter accounts that depict, um, good-looking girls to follow their players and track their tweeting.
This Topic is Missing Your Voice.. “Friend requests from cute girls are an automatic follow”.
Helping players keep from going off the deep end when they are facing this type of criticism is the main objective of monitoring these accounts.
Kingsbury isn’t sure if players know they’re being tracked but thinks they do.
Hawk: Do you guys ever, like, troll them with those fake accounts and ask them to send pics and see what their judgment’s like?
As a former player himself, he spoke with Hawk about how much different it is now compared to when they both played. They’ve got five million 18, 19-year-old girls reaching out to them.
We probably could get there. Catfish them, all that deal.
Texas Tech players beware: Big Brother is watching, and it’s in disguise.
You have to hand it to Kingsbury, who served as an offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach at Texas A&M before arriving in Lubbock.
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For some perspective, these are multimillionaire coaches spying on unpaid students who-in many cases-keep private social media accounts meant to keep prying eyes out.
