Texas A&M Coach Kevin Sumlin Fires Pool Boy over Tweet

Anyone who works for Texas A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin better think twice before they tweet. Otherwise, they could soon be without a job.

Update from Wednesday, Jan. 7

It appears as though Sumlin really did fire the pool boy:

Here's a transcript of Sumlin's interview on ESPN's Mike & Mike, h/t Mike Foss of USA Today's FTW:

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We try to teach lessons to young people. I’ve got a great company that built my pool—your going to get me in real trouble here right now. His boss is a good friend, and I’ve known him for a long time. This is my second stint back in College Station. And I've known him for a while. I was on the phone, obviously everyone wanted to know who we were going to hire as our d coordinator and actually I was on the phone with John Chavis at the time. He’s looking from the pool, and I’m coming out to the car, and he’s still standing around looking … The message is if you come to somebody’s house and somebody hires you, whatever you’re doing, it’s a little bit personal. If you’re invading privacy, it's not a public deal—Twitter’s public, so guess what? Don’t come back.

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Listen to the interview on ESPN's website (starts around 15:00 mark).

--End of Update--

On Tuesday afternoon, Sumlin's pool cleaner, Rustin McFarland, sent out a tweet about what he saw while at the coach's house. It appears the tweet was a breach of confidentiality.

via @mcfarlandrk8/@CoachSumlin

It's not clear if Sumlin was serious or just joking. For what it's worth, McFarland, a Texas A&M sophomore, deleted his tweet a few minutes after Sumlin responded.

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