Mike White, LaVall Jordan book Florida-Butler home-and-home via Twitter
Social media has allowed us to do a lot of things we couldn’t before, and that apparently includes booking home-and-home basketball games.
That’s what Butler coach LaVall Jordan and Florida coach Mike White did on Monday as a means to set up a home-and-home for the next two years between the Gators and the Bulldogs.
Hey @MikeWhiteUF, congrats on a great season. Dawgs are looking for a home-and-home. Gators interested?
— LaVall Jordan (@LaVall_Jordan) March 26, 2018
Coach, I like it! Let’s get the Bulldogs down to Gainesville this season & the Gators can visit Hinkle in 2019-20. https://t.co/Q966KBi2Xi
— Michael White (@MikeWhiteUF) March 26, 2018
Sounds good. Fire up the fax machine. I’ll have my guys draft it up and send it your way for signatures. https://t.co/icGD2n06Z7
— LaVall Jordan (@LaVall_Jordan) March 26, 2018
To be clear, there was almost certainly some level of premeditation here, considering how quickly the replies came, plus the fact that a formal announcement came less than ten minutes after the exchange.
Florida and Butler will begin a home-and-home series next season in Gainesville, per release. Return game at Hinkle Fieldhouse in 19-20.
— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) March 26, 2018
Still, even if this wasn’t 100 percent the product of Twitter, it was fun and amusing to see. We’ve seen coaches use social media hilariously before, but “negotiating” a home-and-home is definitely a new one.
