Wiedmer: Texas A&M’s Tweetgate has UT coaches’ attention

Mark Wiedmer

Tweetgate.

That’s what Texas A&M football assistant Aaron Moorehead has apparently created thanks to his untimely postings on Twitter about loyalty and accountability following the decommitment of Aggies recruit Tate Martell. Moorehead later said – excuse me, tweeted – that his comments Wednesday weren’t directed at the dual-threat quarterback. But whomever they were intended for, they apparently also cost the Aggies highly regarded receiver Mannie Netherly, and more decommitments seem certain to follow.

And the Internet being the Internet, rumors are already circulating that one or both of those players might now consider casting their talents with the University of Tennessee, whose football coaching staff is as tweet-alicious as they come.

Not that UT coach Butch Jones wanted to address either the rumors or opposing coaches’ Twitter etiquette in general during Thursday night’s Big Orange Caravan stop at the Chattanoogan.

“Our coaches understand,” he said when asked about what’s encouraged and discouraged when tweeting. “As coaches, being accountable, you’re to sit back, not do anything.”