Tennessee football coach Butch Jones has again been asked to discuss his policy with players on social media.

One Vols signee in particular — defensive end Jonathan Kongbo, the nation’s No. 1 overall junior college prospect in the 2016 industry-generated 247Sports Composite — called out reigning national champion Alabama at least a couple of times on social media in recent months.

Jones was asked Tuesday at the SEC’s annual spring meetings whether he liked the social media bravado from some of his players or preferred a more cautious approach.

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“We spend a lot of time in educating social media,” Jones said. “This is a generation that’s been brought up on broadcasting every emotion that you have. We’re continuing to educate them. We have tremendous respect for Alabama. Who wouldn’t?

“I think it’s just sometimes individuals get excited to play, excited about the season.”

The issue of Kongbo’s social media bravado has been brought up before, with Jones saying during last month’s Big Orange Caravan stop in Chattanooga that he has spoken with Kongbo about the benefits of “being humble," and the player's Twitter account seemed to be deactivated not long after that.

Jones said the topic of social media was again mentioned to the Vols’ first-session-summer enrollees before he boarded a plane and headed for the annual SEC spring meetings in Destin, Fla.

“That was one of my topics yesterday with our freshman class, is, you know, not broadcasting every emotion that you have, and understanding that the program you represent is always bigger than you,” Jones said.

Tennessee coach Butch Jones with Vols defensive-line signee Jonathan Kongbo

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Dawgs247’s Jake Rowe contributed to this report from Destin, Fla.

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