West Virginia‘s Rich Rodriguez was adamant this week that his players are banned from doing TikTok dances because it looks bad for the program.
The returning Mountaineers head coach is trying to instill a culture of playing for the team and not doing anything by yourself.
Rodriguez views dancing on Generation Z’s favorite phone app to be not in line with his vision for the Big 12 sleeping giant.
The TikTok dancing ban is not governed by the NCAA and is the first known measure of its kind from a major college football program. How the program will monitor its players from making sure it does not perform any TikTok dances is unclear.
‘I don’t really – they’re going to be on it. So, I’m not banning them from it. I’m just banning them from dancing on it,’ Rodriguez said. ‘We try to have a hard edge, whatever, and you’re in your tights dancing on TikTok. It ain’t quite the image of our program that I want.’
‘I told the team today. I said everything today is about trying to make everybody individual. It’s all about the individual, it’s all about the individual. And I said football is one of the last things that’s got to be more about the team than the individual.’
Rich Rodriguez was adamant this week that his players are banned from doing TikTok dances
Rodriguez are back in charge of the Morgantown program after nearly two decades away
‘So, I banned dancing on TikTok, I guess I did that. Anything that doesn’t look like our program should look. It’s just, come on. And I’m allowed to do that, I guess. I can have rules.’
‘Like I said, twenty years from now, if they want to be sitting in their pajamas in their basement eating Cheetos and watching TikTok, whatever the hell. They can go at it. Smoking cannabis, whatever. I mean, knock yourself out.’
‘I hope our focus can be on winning football games. How about let’s win the football game and not worry about winning the TikTok.’
The Mountaineers do not have any players who are internet darlings, like a Livvy Dunne, who are known to produce high levels of content.
It is unknown what spurned Rodriguez to implement the TikTok ban, like one of his leaders moving to ‘Dance With Me Tonight’ by Olly Murs.
However, if you’re a Mountaineer, the edict of no dancing on social media is clear from Rodriguez.
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