Kansas Football Coach Takes Away Players' Cell Phones

It wasn't that long ago that college football coaches were doing nothing more than banning their players from using Twitter or monitoring their posts on Twitter, Facebook and other social-networking sites. Now, University of Kansas football coach Turner Gill has gone a step further and implemented a no-cell-phone policy for his team. According to The Wichita Eagle, Jayhawks players are expected to hand over their phones when they arrive for game day. The devices will be returned to them in the locker room following the game.

"Everybody was kind of in shock," KU wide receiver Daymond Patterson told reporter J. Brady McCollough. "We hadn't had anything like that in the past years. (Gill) just feels like it's a business thing. He wants us to focus and be ready for the game and not be thinking about outside things."

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