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"Washington State football coach Mike Leach has banned his Cougars from tweeting. And not only that, he's soliciting enforcement help from fans and media. \n\u201CTwitter\u2019s now banned around here, so don\u2019t expect anything on Twitter,\u201D he told the Spokane, Wash., Spokesman-Review. \u201CTwitter\u2019s banned and quite frankly, if after today you see anything on Twitter from our team \u2014 and I don\u2019t care if it says, 'I love life' \u2014 I would like to see it, because I will suspend them.\u201D\nHe offered few details on the decision, telling the local paper, \"Because I decided to, that's what prompted that.\" Athletic director Bill Moos, however, said that a series of inappropriate tweets by players had portrayed the program in an unflattering light, adding that the problem isn't one specific to just football players. \n\"I've got kids myself, and they have Twitters and Facebooks and all that,\" he told the Spokesman-Review. \"And a lot of that stuff that comes across there, it would not be approved by the Parent Teacher Association.\"\nLeach isn't the only college football coach to ban Twitter. In July, Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher told his players Twitter was off limits for the rest of the year. \nBut Oregon coach Chip Kelly said on Wednesday that he thinks college coaches who ban Twitter may be missing the metaphorical forest for the proverbial trees. \n\"If they can't be responsible in social media, then we recruited the wrong kids,\" Kelly told the Oregonian. \"I think it's very prominent this day in age ... and we try to educate our kids like we educate them in everything they do. But if you can't trust a kid on Twitter ... can you trust them on third down?\"\nDo you think it's smart or OK for college coaches to ban their players from using Twitter? Give us your take in the comments. \nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, LUGO"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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