Strange college football recruiting story

[jwfgeol]

ESPN - Investigation looks into prep opting for school that didn't recruit - Insider

Well, today is national signing day, and a friend sent me this story. It's one of the strangest things I've ever read.

Students, television and newsprint reporters packed the gym at Fernley (Nev.) High School to hear offensive lineman Kevin Hart give a verbal commitment to play football at the University of California. He chose Cal over Oregon.
"They really sold me," Hart said, according to USA Today. "Coach [Jeff] Tedford and I talked a lot, and the fact that the head coach did most of the recruiting of me kind of gave me the real personal experience."
The only problem … neither Cal nor Oregon recruited Hart.
Now, it's a "law enforcement investigation," said Fernley football coach Mark Hodges, according to the newspaper.

 

[Ramy]

Wow that is strange, somebody impersonating the coach.

 

[jwfgeol]

It looks like the kid was making the whole thing up.

RGJ.com: Hart saga comes to an end: 'I made it up'

 

[Paul Wozniak]

I was looking at the size of this kid, he must really suck, if he's that big and didn't attract any attention from Div. 1 schools.

 

[jwfgeol]

I was looking at the size of this kid, he must really suck, if he's that big and didn't attract any attention from Div. 1 schools.

On rivals.com it said something like he "lacks quickness and upper-body strength." Which is a nice way of saying he's slow and weak.

 

[Paul Wozniak]

How did this kid get this past his parents and coach? Didn't anybody not notice the lack of California and Oregon recruiters around the house, phone, field? And what was this kid planning on doing when fall rolled along, and he and no football team?

 

[mccoyrj]

How did this kid get this past his parents and coach? ...

Have the whereabouts of his parents been confirmed lately? This kid sounds like a nut job.