Perry Marchese, coach of the Saint Mary’s University varsity football team, had not been following his team on Twitter when UNews presented him with examples of tweets written by some of his players.

“Some of them are upsetting for sure,” Marchese said after being shown five of the players’ tweets.

“It’s very disappointing to see it. Very disappointing, absolutely.”

He has watched their Facebook profiles but to his knowledge, no one at SMU has the job of monitoring the social media presence of student athletes. Most SMU football players are active in social media, with more than a dozen active on Twitter.

Marchese says that earlier in the year, someone pointed out to him his players were tweeting about a party they were specifically told to not mention on social media. Marchese says he had the team run as punishment.

Since then, he hasn’t followed their tweets, but has told them repeatedly to watch the image they portray as Huskies.

The players retweet each other, post pictures from their lives and are followed by accounts associated with SMU.

On Oct. 9 Troy Adams, linebacker, tweeted at someone calling them a fag.