Does social media motivate in high school football?  12:54 AM,
Sep. 12, 2013  |  Comments Mt. Juliet coach Roger Perry
retweeted '3 more days until we blow out Mt. Juliet #SC'  Each
week, Tennessean prep insiders Chip Cirillo and Maurice Patton
offer opposing views on a high school football topic. This week,
it's using social media as motivation.  PATTON: Just ignore it
Focus on the task at hand. Concentrate on us. Don't be
distracted.  All are coaching bromides that have been handed
down through the years.  So why do some coaches then turn around
and introduce or create outside forces in the name of preparing
their teams to play?  Leading up to last week's Mt. Juliet-
Station Camp contest, a tweet came out saying:  "3 more days
until we blow out Mt. Juliet #SC"  Understandably, the Mt.
Juliet coaching staff seized on the message and retweeted it -
to no avail, as the Golden Bears did in fact get blown out,
41-3.  But is social media trash talking, and were other forms
of "bulletin board material" in earlier