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Excerpt from ESPN:

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Florida coach Will [M] said social media also provides another glimpse into a player's character, warning that "kids need to understand that they have to be very careful about what they do on social media."

Cornerback [Mr XYZ] found this out the hard way. [Mr XYZ] was kicked out of Don Bosco Prep in Ramsey, N.J., last week after several sexually graphic and racially explicit posts appeared on his Twitter account.

[Mr XYZ] initially had numerous scholarship offers, but several schools cooled on him after the Twitter posts went viral. [Mr XYZ] ended up committing to Colorado this week.

"If a kid posts something stupid on Facebook, it bothers you," Polian said. "You have to ask yourself, at what point is this a kid being a kid or is this what we will have to deal with?"

[Mr XYZ] told ESPN.com this week he's learned his lesson, and is "grateful" that Colorado coach Jon Embree gave him a second chance.

"Hopefully, other people will learn from what happened to me and make smarter choices," [Mr XYZ] said. "My days with social media are over, I promise. No more Twitter. No more Facebook. I have a phone, and if I want to talk to someone now, I'm just calling or texting them."