March 11, 2025, 04:15 PM ET
W.Va. Morgantown – West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez, like all football coaches, wants players to show up on time, work hard and play their best.
Ah, another one: Don’t dance with Tiktok.
“They’re going to be that, so I’m not banning them from then,” he said Monday. “I’m just forbidden them to dance. It’s like looking, we’re trying to do a hard edge or something. You’re there in the tights dancing in Tiktok. It’s not the image of our program I want.”
Creating Tiktok dance videos is a popular activity among high school and college users of social media platforms. Heisman Trophy winners, Travis Hunter, Boise State Star Ashton Janti and Nebraska’s Dylan Raiola are among the college football players who posted the dance video.
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Rodriguez is starting his second stint as a mountaineer coach. He said he spoke to his players about a social trend that emphasizes individuals rather than teams, and that banning Tiktok dance is something he can do to focus on where he thinks it belongs.
“I’m allowed to do that. I can have rules,” he said. “Twenty years from now, they can sit in their underground pajamas and eat cheats and whatever the heck is, they can go to it, smoke marijuana and so on.
For now, he said: “I hope our focus will be on winning football games. Why not worry about winning football games and winning Tiktok?”
