allow his players to talk to the media about other teams? So far no one has given up any bulletin board material but I feel it's gonna happen. And if I had to bet it would be from 15.
I am sure there are team rules and policies on this. Les is kind of restrictive about when and how his assistant coaches and players are made available to the press. I am sure they are all regularly schooled in how to handle the social media. But these players are also college students with a long set of state and federal rights and the coaches are university employees with a long set of university rules and regulations. Les must strike a three-way balance between the best interests of his team, his employer, and the personal rights of an individual student. He cannot really stop a person from exercising his rights to free speech and being able to talk to their friends. In this day and age, many of them talk to their friends publicly on the internet and think nothing of it. Coach has to discourage this without infringing on university rules or federal student privacy laws. I think does a pretty good job.
I always thought he did too and I think Dr Karam does a great job coaching these kids up too. I just get this feeling especially with Dupre, that he is going to say something he shouldn't before the year is over. Maybe it's just the younger generation, I don't know.
He can't kick a player off the team for a twitter or facebook post he doesn't like but that player could find himself warming the bench a lot more than he wants. Playing time is the only real leverage a coach has over his players. Of course that would depend on how valuable that player is. Nobody would bench Leonard Fournette for an ill advised tweet.
