Notre Dame Exposed! Brian Kelly's sideline blowup this year is nothing compared to what he's going to do when he reads this!
On January 17, 2012, Michigan football insider Ace Williams broke a story on potential Notre Dame football player Yuri Wright losing his scholarship offer to Michigan because of the offensive language on his Twitter account. At the time of the article, the Irish were still heavily pursuing Wright even though they were aware of the contents of his Twitter account.
A source close to the Fighting Irish program told us in the days following Yuri Wright making national headlines "Of course they knew about the tweets. They were probably going to land Yuri too, but had to stop recruiting him when that stuff surfaced. That article is probably the only reason that he didn't end up becoming a part of the 2012 Irish class. But, after those tweets came out, there was no way we could get him in to Notre Dame."
Due to the topic being so controversial and incredibly widespread across 2012 star high school recruits, our writers sought to show that this behavior is NOT limited to Yuri, but has become commonplace among teens on Twitter. In previous articles, we have discussed at length the potential consequences of negative Twitter behavior, and have called for formal training on proper social media usage for high schoolers. For those who have read the previous articles, we won't repeat what we have said. Readers who haven't, you can read the first three articles ion this 7 part series on Twitter usage by star high school athletes:
Part 1: 2012 Top recruiting classes EXPOSED by Tweets
Part 2: Michigan football recruits behave badly on Twitter
Part 3: LSU football recruits exposed on Twitter
When publishing the tweets below by members of the 2012 Notre Dame football recruiting class, we will point out the following facts.
* Each of these recruits, on average, gave 18 interviews in the last year with MAJOR media outlets such as ESPN, Yahoo Sports or Fox Sports.
* Several of these recruits announced their college destination on national TV.
* Every one of them held a press conference to announce their college choice, including Davonte Neal, who didn't show up at his own press conference at his former elementary school today.
* None of the high schools they attend have formal policies on proper social media use.
As you read the rest of this article, consider this: Each one of these young men has a chance to start for the Notre Dame football team in just over 6 months. Then, think to yourself: How would I react if I saw Michael Floyd tweeting this material last season?
Below, we give you the controversial tweets from the 2012 Notre Dame football recruiting class. (warning, contains explicit language and context)
Romeo Okwara, 3-star, #35 DE by Rivals
Williams Mohone, 4-star, #197 player nationally by Rivals
Ronnie Stanley, 4-star, #176 player nationally by Rivals
CJ Prosise, 4-star, #10 player in VA by ESPN
Jarron Jones, 4-star, #199 player nationally by Rivals
Chris Brown, 3-star, #11 player in South Carolina by Rivals
Nicky Baratti, 3-star, #57 player in Texas by Rivals
What other schools are being exposed by Twitter?
Follow the 2012 Notre Dame football recruiting class on Twitter:
| Sheldon Day | https://twitter.com/#!/S_NDbound_Day91 |
| Gunner Kiel | https://twitter.com/#!/GunnerKiel |
| Tee Shepard | https://twitter.com/#!/tshepard08 |
| Nicky Baratti | https://twitter.com/#!/NickyBaratti |
| Chris Brown | https://twitter.com/#!/C_Breezy2k12 |
| Scott Daly | None |
| Justin Ferguson | None |
| Mark Harrell | None |
| Jarron Jones | https://twitter.com/#!/MegaMan_Jones94 |
| William Mahone | https://twitter.com/#!/iWill_doiterday |
| Romeo Okwara | https://twitter.com/#!/RomeoAK33 |
| CJ Prosise | https://twitter.com/#!/cjpro3 |
| KeiVarae Russell | None |
| Elijah Shumate | https://twitter.com/#!/ElijahShumate |
| Ronnie Stanley | https://twitter.com/#!/ronnie_stanley |
| John Turner | None |
| Davonte Neal | None |
***Note from the Editor: This is obviously going to be a very controversial article. We decided to publish the middle ground of what we uncovered. For all 6 schools featured, we discovered evidence of gambling on football, drugs, alcohol on recruiting visits and mentions of improper recruiting benefits that we chose not to publish.***
Alex Jones, Rick Steele and Mack Ferguson contributed on this article.
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