Apparently, Twitter’s match made in heaven will not come from the exponentially growing pool of athletes that frequent the social networking site.
In yet another instance of misguided use of Twitter, prep-football star Yuri Wright has vaulted himself into toxic territory via a series of Tweets over the last six months, finally culminating in his expulsion from Don Bosco Prep in New Jersey, a national powerhouse in the high school ranks.
Wright, who is a 4-star recruit and a top 10 cornerback according to Scout.com, fired off a few highly insensitive Tweets (omitted here, but visible at SportsGrid.com) that has not only got him kicked out of school, but dropped from a few high-profile recruiting lists, according to reports, including the University of Michigan.
Wright, the star cornerback from Ramsey, NJ, had just played in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio earlier this month had already received 12 other offers besides Michigan’s, all of which came from automatic qualifying BCS schools. The offers stretched from coast to coast (from Rutgers to Cal-Berkeley and everything in between) and included some of the most prestigious football institutions in the country.
Since the Tweets were posted, Wright has been expelled from Don Bosco and Michigan has reportedly stopped recruiting the high school senior, even going as far canceling his recruiting trip to Ann Arbor, according to numerous outlets.
Wright has deleted his Twitter account since the backlash. His only visit to this point, according to ESPNU.com, has been to Cal this past week. Among the other schools who showed interest prior to the Twitter remarks were Notre Dame, Tennessee and South Carolina.
The courting list was quite prestigious as well, and the only two schools that had put in an offer on him that had not played in a BCS bowl in the last 15 years are Boston College and Rutgers, but even they have had numerous opportunities at the series.
Wright has less than two weeks to figure this mess out before National Signing Day on Feb. 1.
