Reflection

Looking back at my 20% project I felt like i learned a good amount of things.  There was three main things that I learned while doing this project. The first one being that I was not the only one who hated using twitter during recruiting. Other recruits out there did not like to get hassled by fans all the time on twitter.  The second big thing I learned was that there is no safe form of social media, that eliminated the fans but still allowed recruits to contact and talk with coaches. Third was if i could create a platform which allowed you to do all these things it would be a hit. The product I made was called RecruitMe it is a social media platform that eliminates the fans and only allows recruits and coaches to interact, eliminating all the problems from regular social media. Here is the Link to the concept map i made for my product. After I presented my project i received a lot of very good feed back, people told me i should continue to further the develop the product and see where it takes me. overall this project was a success in my eyes, and I think i learned a lot of valuable things while doing it.

Post 4

     With the development of my app that I talked in my last blog post i think that there are two groups of people that will benefit from my product. Those two groups being high school football recruits, and the college coaches of the country.
      High school recruits will love this website, it gives them the opportunity to interact with each other and these coaches with out the hassle of annoying fans. They will see quickly that without all the hassle coming from all these different schools fans that the recruiting process will become so much more easy. Also it allows them unlimited contact with these coaches, so they are not consistently playing phone tag or leaving a coach multiple voice mails, they can communicate through the app.
      I think in order to effectively share the proper info about this app with these people i think i need to show them that this will indeed help them. to do that i will use examples of how recruiting on twitter has poorly effected recruits and then i will show them how my app eliminates all of that.

Blog post 3

   Through out the process of doing research on my topic i have learn some things that i did not know while I was going through the recruiting process. some of the things i noticed is some recruits favor the use of twitter compared to others. The recruits that favor twitter seem to like the attention that they get from all the fans and they like they feeling they get by having so many followers from all the schools they are interested in fans. But to me it seems that they could care less about the interaction they can have with the coaches from those schools. in retrospect the recruits who don't favor twitter are the opposite. they don't like the fact that these fans put so much pressure on them to choose a certain school, and when they don't pick that school they all the sudden go from all these fans loving them to these fans not caring about them. But they do indeed like the fact that they can interact with coaches. while being recruited recruits have limited ways to contact and talk with coaches, so twitter gives the recruit a way to stay in contact with a coach as much as possible, with out breaking the rules of the NCAA. so my solution to this is create a new social media app that is just for coaches and recruits. It will be platformed similar to twitter where recruits can post about what they are doing and what is going on in there life. since it is just for recruits this eliminates all the scrutiny  that recruits get from fans but still allows them to interact with coaches. It also allows recruits to interact with each other and build bonds in case one day they become teammates.

Post 2

     Here is a link to a article about football recruits and twitter in oregon.  This is about how fans and boosters use twitter as a platform to interact with there teams recruits. In most cases it is harmless, just a man trying to pursue a kid to go to his Alma Matter, but in some cases it can be bad. Fans hide behind a phone and twitter in order to bad mouth players and talk down to them just because they do not choose to go to there school. Having dealt with this while i was in high school, it can get to the point where it is very annoying. It also really takes away from the positive affects that twitter has for recruiting. This is just one way Twitter affect the recruiting process.

Post 1

       I chose to use this topic because it is relevant to my life. Being a college football player you go through the process of recruiting. This process has changed drastically in the last couple of years due to the use of twitter. Coaches can now use this social media site in order to see what you have to say and to keep tabs on you and also to contact you when they cant do so on the phone. Throughout this blog I will go in to depth on all the aspects that twitter has changed high school football recruiting. This topic is all over the web right now and you can find it at so many different websites. This is because of how it is actually changing the game and people do not know if it is for the good or the better.