West Virginia football coach Rich Rodriguez is banning TikTok dance videos for his players. Not TikTok itself, but performing dance videos hoping to go viral.
His explanation is utterly hilarious. Equally as hilarious as the fact that a college football coach has to specifically tell his players, no, you can’t be dancing on TikTok.
“They’re going to be on it, so I’m not banning them from it,” Rodriguez explained. “I’m just banning them from dancing on it.”
“It’s like, look, we try to have a hard edge or whatever, and you’re in there in your tights dancing on TikTok, ain’t quite the image of our program that I want.”
‘You’re in there in your tights’ is an all-time quote in NCAA football history, if we’re being honest.
West Virginia football coach Rich Rodriguez says he's banning his players from dancing on TikTok.
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"How about let's win the football game and not worry about winning the TikTok?" pic.twitter.com/Q3DSulttZj
TikTok Dances Banned At West Virginia
Coach Rich Rodriguez may want to consider a career in stand-up comedy when he’s done at West Virginia. He kept ranting about the boys using TikTok, and it was comedy gold, Jerry.
“I’m allowed to do that,” he said of the dance ban. “I can have rules.”
“Twenty years from now, if they want to be sitting in their pajamas in the basement eating Cheetos and watching TikTok or whatever the hell, they can go at it, smoking cannabis, whatever,” Rodriguez added.
“Knock yourself out.”
That is an old-school kind of coach, man. If you want to be some tubby stoner eating Cheetos on the couch, fine. Just do it after football. In the meantime, the rest of us are trying to look like men.
As opposed to whatever the heck this is …
Are we being deadass pic.twitter.com/tPeKdLoL5I
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Incidentally, the video above is Nebraska quarterback Dylan Raiola TikTok dancing alongside running back Emmett Johnson.
It was so bad that the video was eventually deleted, and Nebraska coach Matt Rhule, also apparently not a fan, put his players through a pretty brutal workout—a TikTok-themed workout.
“So our strength coach did a TikTok workout this morning with the freshmen, and they were pushing plates with their bios and all their cool stuff they love to post on there,” Rhule told reporters.
“But they were doing wall sits at the end, and every freshman had to get out and do a 10-second TikTok dance while the rest of the guys did the wall sit. Welcome to old school.”
Matt Rhule Caught His Players Doing TikToks In The Facility, So He Had The Freshmen Dance Between Wall Sits In A "TikTok Workout" https://t.co/HNumeUdt0U pic.twitter.com/sjxNixRAqm
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Rodriguez continued chiding his players over their social media obsession.
“I hope our focus can be on winning football games,” he said. “How about let’s win the football game and not worry about winning the TikTok?”
West Virginia was 6-7 last season.
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