LOOK: Tennessee fans obliterate UCLA reporter on Twitter after he seems to fall for fake Rick Barnes report
By Adam Spencer
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The Tennessee Volunteers are fighting to keep coach Rick Barnes in Knoxville after the UCLA Bruins started targeting him as a potential replacement for Steve Alford.
Tennessee fans are brutal on Twitter, though, so when one LA Times reporter seemed to make a mistake in getting fooled by a fake account, Vol Nation obliterated him.
As you can see here, a fake Tennessee fan account pretended to be WBIR Channel 10 and said Barnes had officially taken the job and then Ben Bolch jumped in and said it was a done deal:
Fake account reports Barnes news, followed up with a real account confirming that fake account. This is gold ?♂️ pic.twitter.com/NM8IiLC5Li
— Trey Wallace (@TreyWallace_) April 8, 2019
Upon realizing it was a fake account, Bolch softened his tweet, saying the two sides were still working toward a deal:
That account I retweeted was fake but my source isn't. I have been told it's looking like Rick Barnes is headed to UCLA but it's not 100% confirmed.
— Ben Bolch (@latbbolch) April 8, 2019
As one might expect, Tennessee fans did not let that mistake slide. The replies to Bolch’s latest tweet were brutal:
— Chad Fields (@CfieldsVFL) April 8, 2019
Big difference between saying “done” in the first tweet and “not 100% confirmed” this time, bud
— Will Warren (@gyrateplus) April 8, 2019
iT mIGHt hApPeN buT iT MIGHt NoT pic.twitter.com/yHTlJaKswt
— Jesco White (@FakeJescoWhite) April 8, 2019
— Harvey Heil (@AHHEIL3) April 8, 2019
— Slap Tails (@BrandynJasa) April 8, 2019
— Adam Lutts (@adamlutts) April 8, 2019
So at first it was confirmed, then you realized it was a fake account and you didn’t actually have a source so now you are saying it’s not 100% to save yourself when he doesn’t go. I got to give it to you, it was a bold strategy.
— Loren Patterson (@THE_DEAL_) April 8, 2019
Of course, there’s still a chance Barnes goes to UCLA, but it appears reports that surfaced on Monday evening were false. Don’t mess with Vol Twitter.
Adam is a daily fantasy sports (DFS) and sports betting expert. A 2012 graduate of the University of Missouri, Adam now covers all 16 SEC football teams. He is the director of DFS, evergreen and newsletter content across all Saturday Football brands.
