From the “Mama McNabb stage at the Al Davis studio,” here we go:
UTC coach John Shulman, right, talks to Chris Early during the game against Warren Wilson Monday at McKenzie Arena.Early bird tweets
Now that was a strange weekend for the UTC basketball team. Quick recap: Mocs leave for Lexington, Ky., on Friday for what’s expected to be a whipping (and a $90,000 pay day); the program learns of senior starter Chris Early’s mid-November Twitter attack on UTC coach John Shulman (and dude was throwing major-league Twitter bombs, stuff way worse than “Up your nose with a rubber hose”); Early is suspended indefinitely; Mocs lose by 25 to Kentucky, which is better than it sounds since UTC was down 18-2 inside the first few minutes of the game.
OK, everyone up to speed? Good, and here’s our TFP UTC hoops ace David Uchiyama’s story on the Early suspension (UTC’s Chris Early suspended for anti-coach tweets).
Social media and sports make cross companions at times. Early is certainly not the first athlete or coach or sports personnel to get egg on his face by putting his emotions and feelings into the written word, that almost always gets out. He won’t be the last either.