Players taking frustration out on Twitter

[ISUagger]

If you are a true fan you don't do things that could potentially hurt your team. Calling out the players on twitter is a huge distraction. People that do this are ********. Period. They suck. I wish painful things on them.

[blutarsky]

Some people do take it a bit far. Attacking an amateur ath-a-lete! They need to go after Fred! He's a man! He's 40!

Can't take the heat? Close your Twitter account. Simple.

[Wesley]

Can't take the heat? Close your Twitter account. Simple.

https://twitter.com/monkzach



But the zachmonk loves twitter and the cyclones.

[dahliaclone]

It disgusts me that Iowa State has fans that would send those kinds of messages to players on Twitter. It's beyond pathetic to do such a thing and I think KL has every right to say what he did about fans. Do people think that the players aren't upset about the loss? Social media has made it WAY too easy for anyone to hide behind a name/username and spew **** at people when they would never say anything close to that to their face.

Anyone that doesn't see how pathetic sending those Tweets are needs a reality check.

[IcSyU]

Can't take the heat? Close your Twitter account. Simple.

Posts like this indicate really quickly who has a quality known as "maturity" in their arsenal.

[Amesboy]

I did Twitter a couple years ago for about half a day and decided there was a line of privacy that I just wanted to keep to myself. These high profile athletes and stars are just are killing themselves with the impulsive ridiculous stuff there putting out there.

[isuno1fan]

[QUOTE=IAStubborn;3268626]

How long ago was Hampt*on

We lost to a bad drake team in 2000 and almost lost to MORNINGSIDE before running the table in the Big 12...and making the the elitebig 8 if i remember correctly.

We beat Morningside, but it took everything we had and we trailed most the game.

[Boxerdaddy]

That's because there are a bunch of d bags saying stuff like this to them:

Korie Lucious ‏@414_Lucious Uhhh thanks!! RT @Mitch_Arnold10: @414_Lucious @Da_Thrill21 time for you two to grow up. Pathetic pathetic showing from both of you.

Zach Monk ‏@monkzach
Everyone of u deserves to get booed next game @414_Lucious @ISUMayor32 @Da_Thrill21 @T_Real25 @M3llyM3I @ChrisBabbII @GeorgesNiang20

If anyone knows either of these two kids they should beat the sh** out of them!

Seriously who does this.

When I read peoples twitters...all I can think of is Idiocracy. I'm not finding that movie as funny anymore because it's really more a documentary than a work of fiction.

[AZmess]

I love how the assumption is that if you call out a player.....you are some geek that has no life and never played. I know a couple people from last night calling him out....i was one of them...we both played and coached at the high school and college level...and have been attending games for 30+ years. If you want to blow smoke up their tails all day....you have that right. That doesnt make you a "real" fan. Lucious wants to tell fans who dont adore him to kick rocks? After the way he played? And how he needs to get off twitter before he punches someone in the face?

What sucks is as an ex-coach, you of all people should know better.

[Dryburn]

Fans, unfortunately, have the right to tweet players negatively, and the players have the right to respond negatively if they want. I really don't think anyone questions that. The question really is........what good does it accomplish for either side? Nothing that I can see. I would imagine most of the fans that tweeted negatively last night may feel bad about it today, and I would guess that any of the players who responded negatively are probably thinking maybe it was not such a good idea today too. Maybe someday we will decide as a society that all this open social media is not such a great thing after all.

On another subject, can we please stop bringing up the loss to Drake in 1999/2000 and how that team made it to the elite 8, and really played in the championship game in that elite 8 game, blah, blah.....? That team had both Jamaal Tinsley and Marcus Fizer on it (just learning to play together when they lost to Drake) and I'm sorry.....but I don't believe anyone sees any players on this year's team developing into two players of that caliber during this season......so the point anyone is trying to make about what might still happen this season is essentially moot, isn't it?

[67CY]

Maybe the players that need to be motivated and get their head out of their xxx will get ****** because of this and finally start being team players.

[urb1]

I did not read through all 10 pages of this thread to know if this was already said, but I really find it humorous how it is okay to bash the players in CyloneFanatic forums, but not on Twitter. Do we think none of the players look at this site?

[NickTheGreat]

That's pretty crappy from all sides. Fans shouldn't call out players like that. I'm more inclined to side with the players on this one.

[jaretac]

oh the pitty of it. Im on my phone or rep and like for you!

[cysox2]

The only thing more embarrassing than losing to tech is having fans that harass players on twitter after a bad loss. I'm sure it doesn't make much of difference but all of our recruits see those tweets. One of the things the cyclones have going in recruiting is its fans base, so when clowns tweet to players after a loss it certainly doesn't help. I've broken tv remotes, put holes in the wall and literally scared the **** out of my dog while yelling at the tv during a cyclone game, but I would never even think about harassing a player after a poorly played game. I'm sure they are just as dissapointed as the rest of us. I know I'm guilty of having high expectations, but lets face it, we dont really have a quality win, and we are 3-2 in the big 12 and those 3 wins are against teams that have a record of 2-14 in league play