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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2019 10:46:19 GMT -6
This is one of the funniest things I've read all day and the best exposure of how full of it Rivals and the other recruit ranking services are. footballscoop.com/news/fake-football-recruit-successfully-catfished-recruiting-sites-local-media/The really rich part of all this, to me, is how all of these recruiting services will swear they have actual college and pro scouts on staff who evaluate film of every single prospect before they give them a rating. They also swear up and down they don't even look at who's offering a kid because all of their evaluation is done in-house by "experts." Yet here they give a player who LITERALLY DOES NOT EXIST a 3* ranking simply because his fake Twitter account tweeted out fake offers from blueblood P5 programs. Then it got reported as fact by local media. |
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Post by wingtol on Feb 15, 2019 12:35:06 GMT -6
We a kid few years ago who was 6'8 play for us as a soph. He was like a baby giraffe out there. Great kid just not comfortable in his body. So he was an OL and we had him listed on max preps as an OT. The amount of mail he got from colleges was absurd, one service had him listed as a two star without anything on him. Couple coaches even called from Power 5 schools. It's insane.
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Post by carookie on Feb 15, 2019 12:40:18 GMT -6
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Post by 19delta on Feb 16, 2019 12:05:18 GMT -6
We a kid few years ago who was 6'8 play for us as a soph. He was like a baby giraffe out there. Great kid just not comfortable in his body. So he was an OL and we had him listed on max preps as an OT. The amount of mail he got from colleges was absurd, one service had him listed as a two star without anything on him. Couple coaches even called from Power 5 schools. It's insane. Well...that is a little different. You can't coach 6'8" or build it in the weight room. I can see why colleges would be interested in a sophomore with that kind of size. We had an OL/DL a year ago. 6'7", 315lbs. Nice kid and a hard worker but wasn't even the best lineman on the team and he is on scholarship at an FCS school. What happened with your 6'8" kid? Did he ever pan out? |
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Post by silkyice on Feb 16, 2019 13:49:22 GMT -6
Recruiting is BS. It really is. I can give story after story on guys they miss on.
This story does not surprise me at all. At all.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 16, 2019 14:12:58 GMT -6
Recruiting is BS. It really is. I can give story after story on guys they miss on. This story does not surprise me at all. At all.
Reminds me of Sidd Finch, the (fictional) pitcher.
I saw Sidd Finch pitch. He had just come down from the mountains. One boot and all. Cannot believe rock throwing faded out of training. No one will ever throw 168 mph again. No one! He was unhittable. Too bad baseball was not compatable with his spiritual life. |
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Post by wingtol on Feb 16, 2019 19:34:02 GMT -6
We a kid few years ago who was 6'8 play for us as a soph. He was like a baby giraffe out there. Great kid just not comfortable in his body. So he was an OL and we had him listed on max preps as an OT. The amount of mail he got from colleges was absurd, one service had him listed as a two star without anything on him. Couple coaches even called from Power 5 schools. It's insane. Well...that is a little different. You can't coach 6'8" or build it in the weight room. I can see why colleges would be interested in a sophomore with that kind of size. We had an OL/DL a year ago. 6'7", 315lbs. Nice kid and a hard worker but wasn't even the best lineman on the team and he is on scholarship at an FCS school. What happened with your 6'8" kid? Did he ever pan out? No he was horrible lol just one of those kids who never got coordinated at that height. Super nice kid and he even knew he's wasn't a player. Wasn't even good at hoops. That's why we laugh about it still. |
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Post by 19delta on Feb 16, 2019 19:53:12 GMT -6
Well...that is a little different. You can't coach 6'8" or build it in the weight room. I can see why colleges would be interested in a sophomore with that kind of size. We had an OL/DL a year ago. 6'7", 315lbs. Nice kid and a hard worker but wasn't even the best lineman on the team and he is on scholarship at an FCS school. What happened with your 6'8" kid? Did he ever pan out? No he was horrible lol just one of those kids who never got coordinated at that height. Super nice kid and he even knew he's wasn't a player. Wasn't even good at hoops. That's why we laugh about it still. My freshman year in high school, we had a senior basketball player who was 7'2". He received a scholarship to a Big 10 school...I think Wisconsin. Anyway, he lasted a year there. Ended up as 6th man at a D3 school. Just couldn't play. |
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