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This is an absolute monumental breakdown and I am loving every minute of it. His replies to other people are killing me. Just another case of people snap reacting and posting immediately on twitter.

Rodney Coe @COEsoCOLD27 Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
@drewskie33 @hawkeyeinsider supposedly they dropped me anyways, so get off my jock and f**k off, I can be an a**hole just keep talking

Wow, why do retarded fans insist on making a bad situation worse? No good is going to come out of them tweeting the kid, why not give him some room and let him and the coaches figure it out. A handful of 15 year old fans make us look really bad sometimes...

If he wants to play running back so bad then he needs to get off his behind and drop 30 pounds or more. I mean i wouldn't mind a 250/260 pound back but from what I heard he is closer to 280ish and not a good 280. He will play d line where every he goes if he stays at that weight and that is the cold hard truth.

Oh, I know who Rob Howe is - and that he's stoking the flames. But all of the other idiots talking trash to and about Coe because they're butthurt aren't helping anything.

Is this the same Rob Howe that tweeted Kozan will decide in 36 hours like a week and a half ago?

Oh I forgot. Sorry first rule about Kozan is we don't talk about Kozan

Second rule about Kozan is we don't talk about Kozan.

ROFLMAO!

Whats the 3rd rule of Kozan?

I just caught up on all the tweets. I don't agree with the "Iowa fans" sending negative comments to Rodney. However, who the hell died and made Rob Howe the Twitter police? I also love AC putting him in his place.

Yeah I noticed that. I think the coaches didn't want a Derby 2.0 and told him that dline is the position they see him at. I'm sure it's hard to accept this news when your heart was set on proving the nay sayers wrong.

I hope Coe learned his lesson on how to tweet. I doubt Rob Howe(doIhaveapresspass) learned his lesson on retweeting negative info. And it appears the Iowa staff has learned their lesson on position changes, that being its best to just be up front.

Slow down turbo, I'm not going to even argue you on AJ cause it doesn't make a difference anymore. But it's pretty oblivious to everyone else how that situation started & end.

Message boards are for fans to communicate with fans. Tweeter and Facebook is to communicate with a person directly, so I'd say there is a difference.

As for threads on speculation. SORRY, next time I'll instant message you for your approval on my final copy. But just a reminder it is the offseason so good luck, cause 80% of the news/threads you hear this time of year will be speculation (IE: Who's going to play next year?) or bad news (IE: JohnDoe busted with an OWI).

I don't see the difference. If the premise of what is directed towards him whether on a message board, twitter, facebook, etc., is "he's an idiot" I don't know how it's not the same thing. I can understand what he's going through, as the same sort of thing happened to me in high school and it destroyed me, I also do a lot of stupid stuff though when I'm pissed off. Yes, is sending them messages or linking their names to things on facebook or twitter going overboard and totally uncalled for but again, if all you're basically saying is "he's an idiot" than I think you (not you persay) should just shut up. PEOPLE, young AND old, do stupid stuff and if this is an isolated incident which is what I'm assuming considering I've never heard anything bad (other than grades) about Coe before, than you have no right to just call him an idiot an hour after what he says. I know when I say stupid stuff I usually take it down within 24 hours of posting it, I can't speak and say for sure that Coe has deleted his posts but I'm sure he's learned the same thing I have before. At the very least at least give the guys 24 hours before you guys go ape on the kid.

Honestly if I was in Coe's position, I don't know exactly how I would feel as it's my dream to play RB, but I gained too much weight and am now being looked at as a DE, I would HOPE I or someone close to me would realize that it's partially my fault, but that's just more reason to work harder this off-season and prove to everyone that I can still play RB.

Yeah, Ummm This is my take on your gripe. Coe first of all started tweeting this stuff on his public account. When a player/recruit does that they know damn well they are going to get a ton of response from the fanbase or other fanbases, that is just the way it is and that is not changing anytime soon. While I don't agree with people engaging in idiotic arguments and twitter catfights, I also realize that everything has a starting point and in these cases it is the athlete posting and basically throwing the bait out there to get some attention.

As far as the message boards are concerned, it is totally different. First of all we are not interacting with the recruits on message boards, we are merely discussing/speculating with our own opinions. If you don't like to discuss you have the god given right to just be a lurker or not read at all.

I'm with you in that I don't think much good comes out of social media in college athletics, but it is a huge business and like any business the customer(fans) always wants more and more information. Now with social media they can get information and much more if they choose. Personally I think it is lame for the average grown man to interact with recruits via twitter. The problem is there are alot of losers out there with negative agendas that make a large fan base look bad.

Wow, he made Deadspin (lol)

http://deadspin.com/5885297/