Texas Football's Meltdown On Social Media

The University of Texas has had an awful start to the season and the team has begun to fight amongst itself through the media and on Twitter. Over the weekend freshman cornerback Kris Boyd retweeted a joke from a Texas A&M fan urging Longhorn players to transfer to the Aggies. He did so from the locker room during halftime of an eventual 50-7 drubbing at the hands of TCU. That's not the best way to spend your time in the locker room. More information has come out to indicate Boyd was actually confronted by teammates as it was happening and shrugged it off. Not great!

This after several veterans went after younger players in the media last week, and now again today. This time junior Dylan Haines took some underclassman to task for lack of preparation and focus. At length.

Texas safety Dylan Haines just spent 10 full minutes calling out teammates for not working and not preparing.
— Mike Finger (@mikefinger) October 5, 2015

Haines on Texas teammates: "People need to grow up and take things more seriously. A lot of people aren't preparing."
— Mike Finger (@mikefinger) October 5, 2015

Haines on young players: "They just want to go out and play the game on Saturday. They don't want to put in the work on (the other days)."
— Mike Finger (@mikefinger) October 5, 2015

Haines said there's not a "strong resistance" between young players and old players, but said, "Everyone's not on the same page."
— Mike Finger (@mikefinger) October 5, 2015

This is what happens when you play poorly. As the great philosopher Jose Mourinho said over the weekend, "sadness brings sadness, bad results they attract bad results." So it's understandable, though unfortunate, that these young men are squabbling in public. But it doesn't end there. A couple of freshmen players responded to Haines's criticism through their own Twitter accounts in tweets that have since been deleted.

Texas' 2015 team, y'all. This is freshman DE Charles Omenihu referring to Dylan Haines' comments. pic.twitter.com/f7twBECDfJ
— Chris Hummer (@chris_hummer) October 5, 2015

#Texas S Dylan Haines calls out young players, frosh responds. Things are getting uglier. http://t.co/9qTTNhmnGK pic.twitter.com/QtXWlSCZto
— Burnt Orange Nation (@BON_SBNation) October 5, 2015

And we are still not done yet. After all of this was happening in real time, another underclassmen, freshman wide receiver DeAndre McNeal, went on Twitter and posted a mini-rant where he defended the "FRESHMAN" and warned those who didn't want to be together as a team could "kick rocks."

#LetsRide #HookEm pic.twitter.com/s67osCbjJb
— The DeAndre McNeal6⃣ (@tbhmcNEal) October 5, 2015

Texas is 1-4 on the season, good for sixth place in the Big XII, and have the Red River Rivalry matchup with No. 10 Oklahoma this weekend.