Many colleges monitor athletes’ social-media postings, and some of them even bar players from using certain words, according to today’s Louisville Courier-Journal.
The University of Louisville flags 406 words or slang expressions that have to do with drugs, sex, or alcohol. The University of Kentucky flags a similar number, of which 370 are sports agents’ names.
The words range from the seemingly innocuous “pony”—a euphemism for crack cocaine—and “panties,” to all manner of alcoholic drinks and sexual expressions.
Software used by the universities sends an e-mail alert to coaches whenever athletes use a word that could embarrass the student or the university, or tarnish their images.
Here are some of the words the universities block:
Kentucky:
Agent
Alcohol
Benjamins
Cheat sheet
Doobie
Fight
Gay
KKK
Murder
Nazi
Payoff
Porn
Rape
Robbery
White power
Louisville:
Beer bong
BYOB
Drugs
Drunk driving
Gazongas
GNOC
Harry buffalo
Jeremiah Weed
Meister Brau
Mr. Brownstone
Sam Adams
Whippets
Zoomies
Kentucky also flagged “Muslim” and “Arab.” But after being questioned about it by the Courier-Journal, the university said it would no longer do so.
