Latest From NCAA: College Baseball Media Only Allowed To Tweet One Time Per Inning During Playoffs

Tomorrow starts the NCAA Baseball tournament nationwide. Although not as popular as football or basketball, NCAA Baseball does have a decent following throughout the country. The media members and capital j Journos who will be attending the many first-round games will undoubtedly have #deadlines to worry about,  but that’s not all:

There’s a famous scene in Godfather III that I often think about when the NCAA announces yet another dumb rule like this one:

Just when I thought the NCAA couldn’t get any dumber, they pull me back in!!!

Rules like this one are very confusing to me. Although a bit off topic, the NCAA is like the MLB and NFL when it comes to posting their content on social media: complete ass holes. Sure, posting a video of a highlight from the NCAA is stealing their property, but policing social media sort of defeats the positive a league draws when their content is posted by a non-league approved account.

Look at the NBA for example. Their philosophy is quite simple: let the fans post all they want, it’s free promotion/marketing and adds to the conversation about the league. #NBATwitter is one of the most fun parts of the NBA right now (discussion of Bryan Colangelo’s burner accounts the past 48+ hours is a perfect example) and most of that is due to the fact that the NBA doesn’t police it like Stalin. Leagues like the MLB, NCAA, and NFL could learn a lot from the NBA in cultivating a culture around their product online.