Totally agree.
I don't want to go full-crazy on the social media talk again, lol, but I legit don't get why they think having an iron curtain up is helping matters. They're quite obviously failing right and left with their methods. I've grown to immensely hate the stubbornness. If you're Dan Hurley and you want an information blackout, so be it. It would suck for UConn fans but at least they could say, "eh, it works. I hate it but it works". Hurley is actually doing the opposite and is using SM to have fun in an annoying portal era. Us OU fans don't get to truly have any excitement, we know less than a lot of fanbases, while also watching our favorite program suck a**. Everything about this program right now is annoying as fucc and it's arguably a top 25 program historically (or was). It's not all on Moser, he's part of the entire mess though.
Meanwhile, football, the example I've used ad nauseum, is a machine on Twitter. They don't see following recruits, tweeting graphics/poems/etc, or really any of it as a negative (there are some things purposefully hidden from SM as one would expect). For example: Damonic Williams. If they lose out on him, it won't be because a couple of online nerds like myself tracked follows.
MBB has had 3 commitments and they've promoted 0 of them. Someone will say, "they will when the class is done". Why not both? Why not purposefully have a day for each kid they get?
Look at WBB....
on the original commitment day....
Tweet #1....some pre-commitment excitement
Tweet #2 is/was Raegan herself with a commitment video (nicely done in-house)
Tweet #3 was trying to sell season tickets based on the Beers commitment (smart, love it)
Tweet #4 was another Raegan tweet...this time the in-house graphic
Total comments on all 4 tweets: 246
Total reposts on all 4 tweets: 742
Total likes on all 4 tweets: 5.3K (roughly)
Total views on all 4 tweets: over 500K
On IG, they did the pre-commitment/Jennie B video. 1130+ likes.
That's not, obviously, counting all the national/local reporters/fans that tweeted their owns tweets.
Exposure on the original commitment day = millions most likely
Then today, WBB announced the official signing, more visibility (including the NCAA account).
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It's really not that complicated. More positive exposure = more positivity in general.
Now, of course, landing Beers isn't the same as landing Kobe Elvis but still, use the tools at your disposal. JMO, of course.
Hire a damn social media manager. Put them to work. Yeesh. Have Moser do some kind of pre-commitment tweet. Let fans have fun!
