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Butch Davis Forbids UNC Players From Using Twitter

by Lisa Tynan
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As if there wasn’t already enough negative attention swirling around UNC, now Coach Davis is stifling his players’ social media creativity:

North Carolina football coach Butch Davis has told his players to stop using Twitter.

UNC football spokesman Kevin Best says Davis gave the order on Thursday at practice that players are forbidden from using the popular microblogging service.

Those already with accounts have been told to deactivate them, and players without accounts are forbidden from creating them.

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