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Scott Shafer celebrates winning the Texas Bowl.

(Associated Press )

Foot met mouth Wednesday in the college football world.

In the process, Syracuse coach Scott Shafer might find recruiting in Atlanta a little more difficult moving forward.

He attracted a social media firestorm after posting a few tweets while visiting the winter-storm ravaged city. They were deleted about 40 minutes after posting, but here's what

A day earlier, he tweeted from Miami with the hashtag #hardnosed.

The reaction was swift Wednesday.

(Update: Shafer later posted "no harm meant" to those impacted on his Twitter account.)