Palm Beach, Tweets, Virginia Tech, Miami

Starting with "commit."

 

I posted something about this on the Twitter rushing to be wrong thread:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/hokies-journal/post/national-signing-day-2012-conversation-between-virginia-tech-and-recruit-jawand-blue-is-aired-publicly-on-twitter/2012/02/01/gIQAT8czhQ_blog.html

 

Beamer apparently did discuss it:

http://www.dailypress.com/sports/colleges/virginia-tech/dp-spt-teel-column-signing-day-20120201,0,3526036.column

 

I find it highly interesting that there's a tweet on his feed that says something along the lines of VA Tech spokesman confirms my earlier tweets are true...but then magically, the earlier tweets aren't there.

I don't mean to pile on, but really why chest beat about how you were right if you deleted the tweets in question?

 

Just to be clear, Blue invited Porter to listen to the call?

 

Maybe I missed it, but is there a part to this story where it's revealed everyone involved is a teenage girl and at the end the reporter jumps in and say, "I KNEW YOU WERE A FAKE FRIEND!"

 

Not to threadjack, but this also is one of my pet peeves, but I have given up trying to stop our writers from using it. Sigh.

 

Never give up. Never surrender. Rivals doesn't get to rewrite the dictionary.

 

I still fix it. Every time. But I have stopped reminding them not to do it. They generally stop using it for a month or two, then they magically return to it.

 

I'm not disagreeing or trying to argue, but what should we use instead? In a perfect world we wouldn't have to write about it because it's not really a "commitment" and all, but enough readers want to know when a kid decides on a school, even if he's free to (perhaps even likely to) change his mind that we have to cover it.

Is there a better term, or do we have to write every time we mention a recruit that "Joe Runningback said he will play for State, but his decision isn't official until he signs a letter of intent in February." ??