In the midst of Syracuse earning a verbal commitment from highly touted recruit DaJuan Coleman on Tuesday, a mediator of Syracuse University’s Twitter account violated NCAA guidelines.

Not long after Coleman chose Syracuse, a tweet from SU’s official twitter account, @SyracuseU, read: ‘DAJUAN COLEMAN IS COMING TO ‘CUSE!’ It was soon retweeted by a handful of people on Twitter, but the tweet is a violation because Coleman has not yet signed a letter of intent to play for Syracuse.

According to the NCAA website’s page on social media and recruiting, ‘NCAA rules do not allow comments about possible recruits on an institution’s social media page or a page belonging to someone affiliated with the institution.’

The tweet was posted by a member of Syracuse University’s Twitter team, Kevin Quinn, senior vice president for public affairs, said in an email. Soon after it was posted, the team realized it was inappropriate, and it was deleted from the Twitter account within 15 minutes.

‘It was taken down because it should not have been posted, in accordance with NCAA guidelines,’ Quinn said.

Quinn said the university will be advising the NCAA of the situation.

Said Quinn: ‘We will be notifying the NCAA and ensuring something like this does not happen again.’

mcooperj@syr.edu

Published on October 24, 2011 at 12:00 pm

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