Cal’s Sonny Dykes says new social-media rules could ‘create issues’

Early Monday morning, NCAA rules permitted college football coaches to start retweeting, liking, sharing or reposting recruits’ tweets.

[...] Cal head coach Sonny Dykes is concerned that, soon enough, repercussions of the rule change — before, coaches could only follow and direct message unsigned recruits on Twitter — will be evident.

“The NCAA sometimes passes things without maybe thinking them through,” Dykes said Tuesday evening after the Bears’ second practice of training camp.

In a landscape built on trying to gain an edge on the competition, some programs might feel compelled to favorite or like everything that dots a recruit’s Twitter feed.

A retweet about a player’s girlfriend, after all, has nothing to do with football or the valued principles the sport promotes.

Cornerback A.J. Greathouse underwent season-ending shoulder surgery two weeks ago, and Dykes said he hopes to have the junior back for spring football. …

Sophomore Chase Forrest, part of a five-way competition at quarterback, drilled multiple punts in practice 35-plus yards.