By Mark Pszonak
Yes, you read that correctly, a Big 12 head coach, West Virginia’s Rich Rodriguez, announced yesterday during a press conference that he had banned his players from posting dances on TikTok.
WVU HC Rich Rodriguez further added players dancing in the locker room in TikTok is not the "image" he wants for the program.
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He didn’t ban usage of the app itself, just videos of the players dancing on it.
“I don’t really…..they’re going to be on it,” Rodriguez said. “So, I’m not banning them from it. I’m just banning them from dancing on it. We try to have a hard edge, whatever, and you’re in your tights dancing on TikTok. It ain’t quite the image of our program that I want.”
Personally, I didn’t know that this was an issue with any team, but I guess Coach Rodriguez’ has concerns for one reason or another. A bit later in his press conference he explained his decision further.
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“So, I banned dancing on TikTok, I guess I did that. Anything that doesn’t look like our program should look. It’s just, come on. And I’m allowed to do that, I guess. I can have rules. Like I said, twenty years from now if they want to be sitting in their pajamas in their basement eating Cheetos and watching TikTok, whatever the hell,” Rodriguez said. “They can go at it. Smoking cannabis, whatever. I mean, knock yourself out. I hope our focus can be on winning football games. How about let’s win the football game and not worry about winning the TikTok.”
It isn’t often that you have a head coach mention TikTok, Cheetos and cannabis in one comment, but Coach Rodriguez has never been boring. And he obviously still isn’t after his return to Morgantown.
