Recruits say the dumbest things: Blue-chip cornerback’s prospects derailed by vulgar tweets

Yes, it's that time of year again: Welcome to our annual reminder to young athletes that social media is… well, social. Which means what you write there is public. Which means anyone can read it. Which means, now that you're a notable figure in the marginal but obsessive subculture of college football recruiting, that a lot of people who are not your friends are going to read it. Some of those people will be potential coaches and other authority figures. Which means, as blue-chip cornerback prospect Yuri Wright found out this week, that you are going to have to deal with the consequences: Don Bosco Prep [in Ramsey, N.J.] expelled the highly recruited football star Yuri Wright on Wednesday for com­ments made on his Twitter feed, according to the head football coach, Greg Toal. Wright, a defensive back from Spring Valley, N.Y., has since deleted his Twit­ter account. "He's a good kid, and I think he has a bright college future, and I wish him the best of luck," s...