#11 Egregiously Omitted Summer Story: BU AD Mike Lynch joins twitter

Big news from the world of social media, as BU's reclusive chieftain of sport Mike Lynch has joined the ranks of such luminaries as @KourtneyKardash, @charliesheen, and @shitmydadsays.

I'm impressed to note that the tweets appear to be authentic and written by Mr. Lynch himself -- however, the page lacks the "Verified Account" badge as yet so I'll reserve final judgment on that.

You can follow him here:  http://twitter.com/#!/BU_AD_MLynch

While the AD's tweets so far have mainly trumpeted the achievements of the various BU athletic teams (and there's certainly nothing wrong with that!), I'm hoping his account will consist of more than PR pablum and we get to see an insiders view of the department and its day-to-day vision and strategy.  This is something the fans desperately want.  We need more than the date and time of the next basketball game... we need our leaders' true feelings on the outcome, what he ate at the game, what he thought of a clever fan chant, or whether the refs screwed us.  I'd also love to know if the AD at Boston College has been a dick about scheduling a basketball game at The Greek, or if the AD feels the same way about Northeastern as the rest of us do.

One disappointment so far:  As of this writing, nothing from Mr. Lynch as to the failure of BU to be swept up in the conference realignment madness.  Looking forward to his thoughts about how the trickle down could aid BU's rise to collegiate athletic dominance.

Hobbs, Chambers tweet before tip-off

Both coaches hit their Blackberries within 5 minutes of each other for a quick tweet before the game tonight. You tell me which one feels more confident about tonight's matchup:

@GWCoachHobbs Just finished shootaround / really tough game tonight. Young group has to mature quickly.

@Coach_Chambers Heading to our shoot around... Can't wait for tonight!!! Lets pack Agganis and start the season right at home!

As always, you can follow me here @chipweis, which roughly 75% of the time it's about BU basketball.

Finally, a few minutes ago from @JohnBattaglino, can't wait to see this place packed:

Where's our non-conference sked??

You'll never believe this, but I was writing a post earlier today complaining that we haven't heard much about our non-conference schedule this season. While many other schools have been releasing their slates over the past month, Terrier fans have been scraping around other school's web sites trying to find any trace of a non-conference match-up.

I even sent Coach Chambers a tweet begging for some kind of sneak preview.

Apparently a lot of other people have been doing the same thing, since BU today announced that the entire OOC schedule will be announced through Twitter! From the press release, AD Mike Lynch said, "We are always looking for new ways to drive traffic to our website and interact with Terrier Nation, and are confident this will be a fun experiment for our fanbase."

I think it's cool as hell, and I wonder if any other schools have done this before. Maybe it'll even attract some buzz in the form of some kind of "here's the latest thing that Twitter is redefining"-type article.

Anyway, the schedule will be announced, tomorrow starting at 12:00pm, on the official BU Athletics Twitter: http://twitter.com/BUAthletics

Following each announced game, Coach Chambers will tweet his thoughts on the game from his account: http://twitter.com/Coach_Chambers

And then after that, I will tweet a thought or two about any of the games that seem interesting -- you know, fan perspective: http://twitter.com/chipweis

I'd encourage everybody else out there to Twitter about the matchups, and please use the hashtag #BUhoops so it's easy to find what everyone is saying about it.