College "recruit's" lie a tale gone horribly wrong

These are the articles on ESPN's front page about a "recruit" who faked the whole process that he was going to CAL. This is CRAZY!

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=wojciechowski_gene&id=3236039

and here

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/recruiting/football/news/story?id=3234302

 

These days nothing surprises me but this is pretty weird.

 

With him being 6'5 and 290 why not walk on a redshirt a year?

 

Probably becuase just being a walkon doesn't come with all of the attention?

 

I just can't believe it got that far. The kid wasn't the only one lying to himself. What about the parents and the high school coach? He told people that multiple schools were recruiting him, and no one contacted any of them? Impossible.

 

It does in Nebraska :grin:

 

I blame the parents. Now way they didn't know what was going on.

 

My parents had no clue as to 90% of what I did while in high school. How do you figure his parents had to know about this?

 

Exactly what I was thinking.

I tell you who to blame... the media... Rivals, Scout.com, ESPN... all of these guys who treat signing day as an event larger than the Super Bowl. The kid felt so much pressure to be signed and he just got a crazy idea one day sitting in class and went with it. However, there are millions of high school athletes who have no problem with getting absolutely no recruiting attention... but I guess this guy couldn't stand it.

 

He claims to be recruited by these schools and his parents have no clue, no involvement at all? You are kidding, right? This is not sneaking out to have a beer with your friends. This was a major decision in ones life. Are you telling me your parents had nothing to say as to where you would or wouldn't attend college or if you were going to hitch hike across the states to find inner peace?

They had to have some sort of involevement...even if it were to ask basic questions.