define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); #freerodneypurvis – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Fri, 10 Aug 2012 06:34:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court Mark Gottfried Connects With NC State Fans on Twitter With “#FreeRodneyPurvis” Hashtag http://rushthecourt.net/2012/08/10/mark-gottfried-connects-with-nc-state-fans-on-twitter-with-freerodneypurvis-hashtag/ http://rushthecourt.net/2012/08/10/mark-gottfried-connects-with-nc-state-fans-on-twitter-with-freerodneypurvis-hashtag/#respond Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:21:24 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=73135

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The advent of interactive web-based communication services like Twitter, Facebook and blogs has allowed coaches to connect with fans in a more direct and personal way than ever before. We witnessed an excellent example of this newfound coach-fan correspondence this summer when Kentucky head coach John Calipari, addressing UK fans directly as “Big Blue Nation,” explained in a long-form blog post on his personal website his new “nontraditional” scheduling philosophy as a roundabout way of rationalizing his refusal to continue the program’s decades-long home-and-home series with border rival Indiana. In [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2012/08/10/mark-gottfried-connects-with-nc-state-fans-on-twitter-with-freerodneypurvis-hashtag/feed/ 0