LES MILES TO TWITTER AT HALFTIME OF LSU GAMES

Oh yeah, Pete Carroll? You think you can Twitter? Well... Les Miles is going to take Twittering to the next level!(Cue me smashing my head into my desk repeatedly...)According to an interview in USA Today, Les Miles somehow contends he’s both “old school” and a “twittering kind of guy.” He’s so into “tweeting” that this upcoming season, Miles will twitter “before games, at halftime and after games."Miles said he will “dictate his observations to a staff assistant who will then type in Miles’ ‘tweets’ or microblogs of 140 characters or less on the social networking site Twitter.com."It’s only a matter of time before the NCAA shuts down Twitter, because as we’ve mentioned a month ago, there are very easy ways to simply communicate via text messaging on Twitter, and text messaging is currently an NCAA violation. Also, Miles can just as easily only “tweet” at certain people. Is it fair for him to send a tweet to one of the best quarterback prospects in the country at halftime, yet contend it’s simply Twittering?And while Miles also claims that he’ll be dictating his “observations” to an assistant, are we really supposed to believe that Miles is going to take a minute out of halftime preparations against an SEC rival to tell us that he’s “happy with the way our defense is swarming. Need to get offense rolling. Wish we had a QB! LOL!"Miles is open with why he’s doing all of it. “Absolutely, it’s for recruiting purposes,” Miles says. “It allows us to communicate, to those people that subscribe, blasts of information... It’s also an opportunity for those prospects that subscribe to communicate with us."This isn’t an indictment on Les Miles or the LSU football program. It’s clear that every coaching staff and football office understands what an advantage Twitter can be. It’s too bad the NCAA doesn’t, and instead just gives us another example of how technology is lapping the archaic bureaucracy that is the NCAA.(Good thing Mark Richt can’t go to graduation ceremonies, though.)