Ex-College Baseball Coach Sued By Univ. After Allegedly Hijacking Twitter Accounts

A fired college baseball coach allegedly hijacked Twitter accounts and started a social media war with the school after he got the axe … and now, the university is suing the guy over it.

Here’s the deal … Saint Xavier University in Chicago, Ill. says in a new lawsuit, obtained by TMZ Sports, it hired Rocco Mossuto to coach its baseball team back in 2014.

The problem … the university says after officials canned the guy in 2020 — he hoarded all of the team’s Twitter account passwords and refused to give them back to the school for WEEKS.

In fact, the university claims during that time period … Mossuto tweeted out a bunch of inflammatory things about the school from the official accounts — blasting the sports programs on multiple occasions.

Eventually, the school says Mossuto returned the accounts … but claims the drama didn’t end there.

In the lawsuit, SXU says Mossuto created more accounts that were almost identical to the university’s official ones — with similar bios, pictures of the team mascot, and handle names — and they say it was all an effort by the ex-coach to disparage the school.

Now, SXU is suing Mossuto for trademark infringement and conversion … and is asking for unspecified damages.

Multiple attempts to reach Mossuto for comment were unsuccessful.

Mossuto had found some success coaching the Cougars before his termination this year … his team won the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament in 2016 and was runner-up at the same event the following year.