Question

College athletics departments have struggled with managing student-athlete social media accounts. Some departments have chosen not to allow student-athletes to post information on social media and carefully manage information distributed from coaches’ and administrators’ accounts. Other departments have elected to give student-athletes and coaches free reign on what they post and how frequently they post.  Put yourself in the position of an athletics director and develop a policy for managing student-athletes’ and coaches’ social media accounts.

Answer 1

A legal contract can be used to manage the activities of student-athletes’ and coaches’ social media accounts. Creating a contract will bind students and coaches. The terms of the contract is clearly defined by the athletics director. He can add a clause which state, "no posting personal and confidential information on social media accounts". The parties to the contract will have to follow this rule. By doing so, there will be no need to continuously monitor their social media accounts and administerinformation distributed from coaches’ and administrators’ accounts. Students and coaches will know that they are legally binded into the contract and breach of its clauses may lead to a strict action. So they will be carefully and will not circular any personal information on social media accounts.

Hence, preparing a legal contract will remove work load of continuously checking up on students and coaches from the director's shoulders and he will be able to focus on other important things

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