getgrizzy said:
That's a damaging tweet. Players need to be able to believe their coach respects them and means it when he's complimenting them. Stitt praised Gus publicly all year, then tweets this. What are the players supposed to make of it? Will they think he's sincere when he's praising them? Will they think he thinks they're worse than they are when he's ripping them? Stitt is creating a confused lockerroom where no one knows where they stand with him.
There's a rule of thumb among genuine adults that
you don't say behind someone's back what you wouldn't say to their face. "Tweets" aside, even private conversations can return to haunt the speaker. The corollary of course is that you don't say the opposite publicly of what you say privately either. And it isn't just that "your word" becomes simply a debased currency that no one takes seriously, it is that no one trusts you to be honest when you speak publicly.
The problem here isn't that the "tweet" was accidentally made public, the problem is the fact that it wasn't meant to be public. That's the point.
