Now before someone roasts me here, let me say that I don't really care. I've blocked lots of people on Twitter, too. It's his Twitter and he's free to do what he likes, and I'm not going to lose sleep over it.
Dobbs is one of the very, very few active student-athletes I've ever followed on Twitter. Still, I pay little enough attention to it that I would never have noticed he had blocked me until Clay Travis tweeted about Dobbs blocking
him. I certainly don't follow Travis, but someone else retweeted his tweet about it. A few folks replied to his tweet saying they had also been blocked, so I got curious and decided to check and...sure enough, yep.
Here's the thing: I've never mentioned Dobbs directly on Twitter (except complimentary tweets a time or two). I think adults who go around mentioning college students directly on Twitter are losers. (Almost as big losers as adults who wear college students' jerseys to football games.
) But I've tweeted a few things similar to what we say on message boards a few times: Like "Dobbs has terrible pocket awareness," or something similar to that.
Which brings me to my point: For Dobbs to know I (and others he blocked, who also said they didn't directly mention him) said something like that on Twitter, he had to search himself on Twitter. And given how many football fans use Twitter, that would be a very long search. I'm not sure how a guy who doubles as an aerospace engineering student and an SEC quarterback has time to name-search himself on Twitter...and if he's so thin-skinned that he's blocking everyone who's made an off-handed comment about his play, I'm not sure why he'd name-search himself in the first place.
Anyway, I hope he plays like a superstar against Mizzou on Saturday and I still think he's a great kid who's a great ambassador for the university...it just seems really odd.
