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<blockquote data-quote="Techster" data-source="post: 262240" data-attributes="member: 360"><p>Unfortunately, our football program as whole has fallen behind on the times. You just have to look at certain things like social media and football camps to see how we've become reactionary instead of pro-active. </p><p></p><p>Remember when twitter and Facebook became a big hit with recruits? Teams were flooding Twitter with all the great things their program and school was doing or could do for SAs (James Franklin at Vandy and Kiffen at UT were great examples). Recruits were subtweeting coaches at other schools (free advertisement!). Not to mention all the behind the scenes messages that allowed coaches to reach out to recruits. Social media presence was free...but we didn't take advantage of it for years even though our fanbase was questioning why and asking coaches about it during call in shows.</p><p></p><p>Now football camps are the big thing. Instead of getting out there and getting to camps to get in front of recruits, our coaches just sat back and shook their heads saying they didn't feel it was the right thing to do...even though the NCAA allowed it and other coaches were out there taking advantage of it. Our coaches finally got out there last year after two years of missed opportunities.</p><p></p><p>On the whole, those things won't make or break a program, but they are little things that can improve or hurt us. Being a good program is about the little things. Things like social media are free...no reason for us to wait around watch other teams flood recruits about their programs and not be a part of the conversation...especially at a school that takes pride in being cutting edge of technology and engineering. If something can help our program and the NCAA allows it, it's silly to sit on the sidelines and watch other teams take advantage of it.</p><p></p><p>When you look at little things like that, it's pretty obvious that our program has to start looking forward more and not wait for other teams to force us to do it. I mean, let's not even bring up uniforms...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Techster, post: 262240, member: 360"] Unfortunately, our football program as whole has fallen behind on the times. You just have to look at certain things like social media and football camps to see how we've become reactionary instead of pro-active. Remember when twitter and Facebook became a big hit with recruits? Teams were flooding Twitter with all the great things their program and school was doing or could do for SAs (James Franklin at Vandy and Kiffen at UT were great examples). Recruits were subtweeting coaches at other schools (free advertisement!). Not to mention all the behind the scenes messages that allowed coaches to reach out to recruits. Social media presence was free...but we didn't take advantage of it for years even though our fanbase was questioning why and asking coaches about it during call in shows. Now football camps are the big thing. Instead of getting out there and getting to camps to get in front of recruits, our coaches just sat back and shook their heads saying they didn't feel it was the right thing to do...even though the NCAA allowed it and other coaches were out there taking advantage of it. Our coaches finally got out there last year after two years of missed opportunities. On the whole, those things won't make or break a program, but they are little things that can improve or hurt us. Being a good program is about the little things. Things like social media are free...no reason for us to wait around watch other teams flood recruits about their programs and not be a part of the conversation...especially at a school that takes pride in being cutting edge of technology and engineering. If something can help our program and the NCAA allows it, it's silly to sit on the sidelines and watch other teams take advantage of it. When you look at little things like that, it's pretty obvious that our program has to start looking forward more and not wait for other teams to force us to do it. I mean, let's not even bring up uniforms... [/QUOTE]
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