Texas A&M loses 2 recruits, 1 after tweets from assistant coach

Recruiting can make people a little crazy. That includes coaches, apparently.

After longtime Texas A&M commit Tate Martell announced that he was opening up his recruitment Wednesday night, Aggies wide receivers coach Aaron Moorehead did not react well.

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Martell, the top dual-threat quarterback in the 2017 class according to Rivals.com, had indicated in recent months that he planned to take other visits, so the news wasn’t a huge surprise. Nonetheless, Moorehead proceeded to tweet several times about “loyalty,” among other things.

He fired off a few other tweets, too, but those were deleted, of course.

“There is no accountability and no sense of positivity when it comes to adversity. #selfish #allaboutme,” one read.

This is coming from a guy who left Virginia Tech for the same coaching position on A&M’s staff before the 2015 season. Yet if a teenage college prospect wants to consider all of his options, he’s “soft?”

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Predictably, that sentiment did not sit too well with other recruits. It didn’t take long for four-star wide receiver Mannie Netherly to decommit from the Aggies. In his announcement, Netherly referenced Moorehead’s tweets.

It didn’t stop there. A&M wide receiver target Tyjon Lindsey, a friend of Martell and one of the top-rated recruits in the country, tweeted that he will no longer consider the Aggies.

So what is a lesson we can all learn from this fiasco? Never tweet.

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