Arizona State’s football season is just two weeks old, but already a portion of its fan base is fed up. After last Saturday’s loss to San Diego State, the social-media outrage got so bad that the football program had to intervene, an act that got national attention.
Posted at 12:46 a.m. Sunday on the official ASU football twitter account:
“If you feel the need to Tweet/DM degrading and insulting comments at our student-athletes, please direct it to this account instead. Thanks.”
The best and worst parts of social media: It gives everyone a voice. A decade ago, people could say whatever they wanted about college athletes and no one cared because so few heard about it.