New Jersey 4-star cornerback Yuri Wright made news for all the wrong reasons 2 weeks ago after it was reported by that he had lost his scholarship offer to Michigan due to racially and sexually offensive tweets. After the story broke, officials at his High School, Don Bosco Prep, decided to expel the star player from school on a permanent basis.
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Based on the unbelievable reaction from fans, major sports media outlets and coaches on this story, the writing staff of Chat Sports has analyzed whether or not the coaches at Michigan, and other high-profile schools, were in fact hypocritical in dropping Yuri Wright as a recruiting target when many of their committed prospects in the 2012 class may be publishing similar tweets as well.
The results of our research were shocking. Not only are tweets similar to Yuri Wrights not uncommon, they were quiet normal for the majority of high profile football players in the 2012 recruiting class.
Our writing staff dug deep into the Twitter accounts of players on the 2012 National Top 100 list by ESPN and of players committed to six of the highest profile schools college football: Michigan, Oregon, Ohio State, Alabama, LSU and Notre Dame. What made us choose these schools? Quiet simple, actually. The Ohio State and Oregon football programs have been embattled in scandal in the past 24 months and we wanted to know if they looked into the character of potential players prior to recruiting them. Michigan and Notre Dame are the 2 most storied programs in college football and were both recruiting Yuri Wright until news of his Twitter account went national . . . were they being hypocritical? Lastly, we would be fools if we didn't look into the 2 highest profile programs in college football right now, LSU and Alabama, and compare how these programs recruits behaved on public social media platforms.
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Over the next 2 months, Chat Sports will publish a ground breaking story on the socially, racially and sexually unacceptable tweets that have been published publicly by members of the 6 high profile recruiting classes.
Make sure to bookmark this link and mark your calendar to come back every Tuesday to read what is sure to be the article of the year in collegiate athletics!
When is each school being exposed by Twitter?
Being that this is a topic of high interest as of late, a glance at instances of improper social media from athletes:
January 13, 2008: Wake Forest football player Lucas Caparelli makes a 'joke' on his Facebook page that he will blow up the school on return from Winter Break. Caparelli was kicked out of school the following week.
September 11, 2009: Arkansas basketball player Courtney Forston makes an insensitive comment about rape on his Twitter account. He was suspended from the team.
September 5, 2010: Australian Olympic swimmer tells opponent to "suck on that faggots" after Australia beat South Africa in a rugby match. She lost her endorsement deal with Jaguar.
September 28, 2010: Oklahoma football player Jaz Reynolds tells residence of Austin, TX to "kill themselves" on Twitter in wake of a suicide in the UT student library the day earlier. This tweet was made during the week of the Texas-Oklahoma game. Reynolds was suspended for the season.
October 25, 2009: NFL running back Larry Johnson uses the word "fag" in a tweet. Johnson was suspended and fined $213,00 by the league.
May 20, 2010: Chargers WR Demetrius Byrd asks if it's 'gay' to listen to Justin Beiber. He is cut from the team.
February 2, 2011: Florida safety Will Hill tweets a series of explicit tweets about his sexual desires and where he wants to participate in these acts. He is asked not to return to the team by incoming coach Will Muschamp.
May 2, 2011: Steelers rb Rashard Mendenhall comes out in support of Osama Bin Laden after the terrorists death is celebrates by Americans. Mendenhall instantly becomes the dumbest man in America in the eyes of fellow athletes and loses his only endorsement deal, with Champion.
December 2, 2011: Lehigh football player Ryan Spadola uses a racial slur in a tweet to a friend. The University responds by suspending him from the team.
What we can learn from the above social media outbursts is that your actions online have consequences. We are living in a new era of communication and the coaches, parents and administrators of high school athletes need to take action and realize that their star athletes are going to get themselves into a boatload of trouble in the future unless we all remove our heads from the sand on this issue.
Just because we focused on the tweets of athletes of 6 schools doesn't mean that they are the only schools with recruits sending out offensive content on their Twitter account. Of the 2012 ESPN Top 20 classes as of this morning, every one of the classes has a top recruit with offensive content on their Twitter account, many with multiple athletes tweeting offensive materials.
During our research, we spoke with coaches and administrators from high schools with high profile athletes. What you will learn in the coming weeks is that although most of the adult figures in the lives of these high school athletes mean well, they have no idea what their athletes are saying online and they are completely unprepared to deal with issues that may arise from use of social media.
Our goal with writing this series on social media in athletics is not to get kids in trouble. It is to open the eyes of every adult reading this to take action. Recruiting is a $100 million/year business and every person that has read a tweet from the athletes featured in this series and didn't take action to address the behavior is telling that athlete that it is ok to tweet about sex, drugs, alcohol, homophobia and gambling with no consequences.
College football National Signing Day was February 1. Below are the top 20 classes and a snippet of the tweets that athletes that comprised those classes. Every one of the below Tweets is accessible to any person that has a computer, a Twitter account is not required to read them on the players account.
| School | Offensive Tweeter |
| Alabama | Dillon Lee |
| FSU | Jameis Winston |
| Texas | Adrian Colbert |
| Florida | Dante Phillips |
| Georgia | Keith Marshall |
| Ohio State | Najee Murray |
| Michigan | Erik Magnuson |
| Miami | Raphael Kirby |
| Clemson | Ronald Geohaghan |
| Notre Dame | Chris Brown |
| Oklahoma | Derrick Woods |
| Stanford | Aziz Shittu |
| USC | Darreus Rogers |
| LSU | Derek Edinburgh |
| Texas A&M | Bralon Addison |
| South Carolina | Shaq Roland |
| Auburn | Javiere Mitchell |
| Oregon | Oshay Dunbar |
| UCLA | Tairen Owens |
Dillon Lee - Alabama
Jameis Winston 
- FSU
Adrian Colbert - Texas
Dante Phillips - Florida 
Keith Marshall - Georgia 
Najee Murray - Ohio State 
Erik Magnuson - Michigan 
Raphael Kirby - Miami 
Ronald Geohaghan - Clemson 
Chris Brown - Notre Dame 
Derrick Woods - Oklahoma 
Aziz Shittu - Stanford 
Darreus Rogers - USC 
Derek Edinburgh - LSU 
Bralon Addison - Texas A&M 
Shaq Roland - Texas A&M 
Javiere Mitchell - Auburn 
Oshay Dunmore - Oregon 
Tairen Owens - UCLA 
To follow the members of the ESPN Top 100 of 2012 on Twitter, please review the list of accounts below:
| Player | School | Twitter Account |
| Mario Edwards | FSU | https://twitter.com/#!/RioBoi_17 |
| Dorial Green-Beckham | https://twitter.com/#!/DorialGreenB | |
| Landon Collins | Alabama | none |
| Arik Armstead | Oregon | https://twitter.com/#!/arikarmstead |
| D.J. Humphries | Florida | None |
| Shaq Thompson | Cal | https://twitter.com/#!/ItsShaqThompson |
| Malcom Brown | Texas | https://twitter.com/#!/malcombrown_90 |
| Eddie Williams | Alabama | None |
| Johnathan Gray | Texas | https://twitter.com/#!/JGray32 |
| Stefon Diggs | Undecided | None |
| Kyle Murphy | Stanford | None |
| Noah Spence | OSU | https://twitter.com/#!/nspence94 |
| T.J. Yeldon | Alabama | https://twitter.com/#!/T_Yeldon |
| Eddie Goldman | FSU | None |
| Dante Fowler | FSU | None |
| Ronald Darby | FSU | None |
| Deontay Greenberry | ND | None |
| Javonte Magee | Baylor | None |
| Ryan Anderson | Alabama | https://twitter.com/#!/Anderson_365 |
| Adolphus Washington | OSU | None |
| Keith Marshall | Georgia | https://twitter.com/#!/Truthh4 |
| Eli Harold | UVA | None |
| Darius Hamilton | Rutgers | https://twitter.com/#!/BoscoLegend94 |
| Gunner Kiel | ND | https://twitter.com/#!/GunnerKiel |
| Trey Williams | Tex AM | None |
| Jameis Winston | FSU | https://twitter.com/#!/UnleashthaBeast |
| Isaac Seumalo | Oregon St | None |
| Jordan Jenkins | Georgia | none |
| Duke Johnson | Miami | https://twitter.com/#!/D3jr93 |
| Jonathan Bullard | Florida | None |
| Nelson Agholor | USC | https://twitter.com/#!/NelsonAgh3 |
| Josh Harvey-Clemons | Georgia | https://twitter.com/#!/J_Dat25 |
| Alex Ross | Okla | None |
| Devin Fuller | UCLA | https://twitter.com/#!/Devin7Fuller |
| John Theus | Georgia | https://twitter.com/#!/jtheus71 |
| Channing Ward | Ole Miss | https://twitter.com/#!/WardChanning |
| Kwontie Moore | UVA | https://twitter.com/#!/kwontie27 |
| Zach Kline | Cal | https://twitter.com/#!/zachklineQB |
| Reggie Ragland | Alabama | https://twitter.com/#!/reggieragland |
| Tracy Howard | Miami | None |
| Mario Pender | FSU | None |
| Chris Black | Alabama | None |
| Ellis McCarthy | UCLA | None |
| Thomas Johnson | Texas A&M | https://twitter.com/#!/tee_johnson3 |
| Mike Davis | S. Carolina | https://twitter.com/#!/Mike28davis |
| Kevon Seymour | USC | None |
| Leonard Williams | USC | None |
| Yuri Wright | Colorado | None that is confirmed |
| Chris Casher | FSU | https://twitter.com/#!/chriscasher |
| Tee Shepard | ND | https://twitter.com/#!/tshepard08 |
| Ondre Pipkins | Michigan | https://twitter.com/#!/PeeWee9456 |
| Shaq Roland | S. Carolina | https://twitter.com/#!/SR2_5starATH |
| Davonte Neal | undecided | https://twitter.com/#!/steelercraze92 |
| Dan Voltz | Wisconsin | https://twitter.com/#!/HighVoltzage |
| Carlos Watkins | Clemson | https://twitter.com/#!/BigCat_94 |
| Amari Cooper | Alabama | None |
| Todd Gurley | Georgia | https://twitter.com/#!/TG1UNO |
| Darreus Rogers | USC | https://twitter.com/#!/D_Rog5 |
| Joe Bolden | Michigan | https://twitter.com/#!/JBolden_007 |
| Jessamen Dunker | Florida | None |
| Rushel Shell | Pitt | https://twitter.com/#!/RushelShell |
| Kyle Kalis | Michigan | None |
| Jonathan Taylor | Georgia | None |
| Alex Carter | Stanford | https://twitter.com/#!/ARCarter2 |
| Andrus Peat | Stanford | https://twitter.com/#!/AndrusPeat1 |
| Geno Smith | Alabama | https://twitter.com/#!/SmithGeno4 |
| Noor Davis | Stanford | None |
| Joshua Garnett | Stanford | https://twitter.com/#!/IamJoshG |
| Curtis Riser | Texas | https://twitter.com/#!/_MrKodac |
| Jabari Ruffin | USC | https://twitter.com/#!/Jayruff7 |
| Jordan Diamond | undecided | https://twitter.com/#!/Jordan76simeon |
| Erik Magnuson | Michigan | https://twitter.com/ - !/erikmagnuson77 |
| Chris Wormley | Michigan | https://twitter.com/#!/chriswormley47 |
| Torshiro Davis | LSU | https://twitter.com/#!/TorshiroD |
| Cyler Miles | Washington | https://twitter.com/#!/cylermiles10 |
| Cyrus Jones | Alabama | https://twitter.com/#!/CyrusJ5 |
| Angelo Jean-Louis | Miami | None |
| Ricky Parks | Auburn | None |
| Travis Wilson | Utah | https://twitter.com/#!/twilsongog |
| Aziz Shittu | Stanford | https://twitter.com/#!/AzizShittu |
| Sheldon Day | ND | https://twitter.com/#!/S_NDbound_Day91 |
| Armani Reeves | Penn St. | https://twitter.com/#!/PTReeves8 |
| Anthony Alford | S. Missouri | None |
| Brian Nance | Baylor | None |
| Aaron Burbridge | Michigan St. | https://twitter.com/#!/chocolethundr16 |
| Tanner Mangum | BYU | https://twitter.com/#!/tannermangum |
| Kennedy Estelle | Texas | None |
| Kenyan Drake | Alabama | https://twitter.com/#!/swooshme_x17 |
| Kendall Sanders | Texas | https://twitter.com/#!/kendallespn10 |
| Marvin Bracy | FSU | https://twitter.com/#!/2mb93 |
| Bralon Addison | Texas AM | https://twitter.com/#!/Bralon_Addison2 |
| Sheldon Dawson | Memphis | None |
| Jeremy Liggins | LSU | None |
| DeVante Harris | Texas AM | None |
| Brian Poole | Florida | None |
| Markuss Eligwe | FSU | https://twitter.com/#!/MarkussEligwe |
| Adrian Colbert | Texas | https://twitter.com/#!/ACtooCold1 |
| Ifeadi Odenigbo | NW | https://twitter.com/#!/IfeadiOdenigbo |
| Raphael Kirby | Miami | https://twitter.com/#!/killaXkirb |
| Jalen Cope-Fitzpatrick | USC | None |