Longstanding recruiting myth debunked by Auburn football reporter

It’s been a longstanding belief that you should never tweet at recruits. After all, these are high school-aged (though in some cases, college-aged) student-athletes. Re-think what you know though — Auburn football beat reporter Cole Pinkston has revealed that tweetin’ at croots has actually helped the Tigers land a key target before.

Tyler Scott, an incoming freshman cornerback out of Mabelton, Georgia, revealed to Pinkston that it was actually the incessant tweets from Auburn Twitter that ultimately led to him giving the Plains a better look, and eventually, a commitment.

A Twitter user shared a screenshot from On3’s message boards showing the evolution of college football recruiting in 2023:

Auburn football fans are thrilled that tweeting at recruits is now acceptable

No fanbase is more intertwined with Twitter than the Auburn family. Particularly after basketball games, you can expect those donning tigers, eagles, and peacocks in their user name to flood the official Twitter accounts of opposing teams with deep-fried memes.

Now knowing than Auburn football actually nabbed someone with these tweets fired up Tiger fans on the bird app, while others wondered why the practice was ever condemned in the first place:

To that last point, although Fly War Eagle doesn’t intend to gatekeep croot-tweeting, we strongly caution against saying anything that can be considered negative at a young man who is trying to live out his dream on the gridiron.