Nevada player holds press conf., commits to Cal, except he didn't have an offer from Cal, or ANYONE

[ninowesco]

that is the hardest I have laughed all day

[LA_Spartan]

Questions:

1. Where were his parents during all of this? USA Today article says he was being heavily recruited by Cal. Didn't his parents (especially his idiot dad who cried as the press conference) wonder why they hadn't met Tedford, hadn't visited Cal, weren't receiving boatloads of letters and phone calls at the house? If it's my kid, I'm going to meet the HC before he commits anywhere.

2. Where was the coach and school officials? Didn't the coach wonder why no one from Cal ever spoke to him? Didn't the coach have an idea of the level of program this kid was qualified for? Don't they have to provide transcripts to Cal?

3. Didn't he have legit offers from lower ranked schools? Since he was a 2 star, he should have been getting offers from WAC schools. Did he ignore these offers to pull his hoax? Did he just screw himself out of a full ride to play football?



With morons in place in all of the places this kid should have been getting guidance, it is no wonder he turned out the way he did.

[smit76]

ESPN - College "recruit's" lie a tale gone horribly wrong - Columnist

[Sagnasty's Finest]

WOW

i'm not even gonna say it

[Jersey Spartan]

Somebody should ask Dantonio about Dion Guy now so Dantonio can RIP Hondo a new one and ban him.

ESPN - College "recruit's" lie a tale gone horribly wrong - Columnist

Not long after Hart received a standing ovation at the school assembly, word of his decision made its way to the recruiting chat rooms. A sampling from The Bear Insider.com:

"1st DI player to come out of that high school? He must be a superstar at the school." … "I think this qualifies as a KABOOM." … "Yes, I have seen him play. He's pretty good. Has college size, good skills. Good addition for Cal." … "Sounds like a great young man with size and attitude!" … "I think Kevin Hart will be one hell of a sleeper recruit for Cal."

Except that Cal never recruited him. And even though Hart attended football camps at Oregon and the nearby University of Nevada, he wasn't on either program's list of approximately 300 potential recruits.

"We knew of the kid," said a sympathetic Chris Ault, head coach at Nevada.
"He was in our camp, but he's not a scholarship athlete."

Ault couldn't believe it. He started calling his assistant coaches, all the time consumed by a single, paranoid thought: Holy god, the guy's a half hour from our campus and we didn't even recruit him! What's this going to look like?
As early as last September, Hart told his school newspaper, the Vaquero Voice, that he was being recruited by Nevada, Boise State, Washington, Oregon, Cal, and Oregon State -- and that Oregon and Washington had already offered him full scholarships. And last Friday, Hart told reporters how difficult it had been to choose between a list of finalists that included Cal, Oregon, Nevada, Illinois and Oklahoma State.
All lies.

"Didn't talk to the kid one time, never recruited him," said Cal's Tedford during a Wednesday news conference."

"He was in our camp," Oregon coach Mike Bellotti told me Thursday. "We evaluated him. We did not recruit him."

Nobody on that list did. But Hart apparently was overwhelmed by his fixation on playing big-time football, on being wanted, on the need to replicate what he had seen done by actual blue-chip players on national signing day: the semi-insanity of high school seniors announcing their college decisions on local and even national television outlets, including ESPNU.

[Punisher99]

Originally Posted by Plaxico'sMouth

Christ.......I just feel bad for the kid. He has got to finish his senior year of high school with the entire school just disgusted with him. Obviously he has some mental issues/deficiencies.

Dude, I do too. You hit it right on the money by saying that he has some problems upstairs. If you watch the video, you can tell when he puts the hat on he just knows how big of a mistake he made. I did some dumb **** in high school, obviously nothing like this, but still everyone knows how it feels to go to school when you did something that everyone knows about.

Just hope the kid and community can move on. He dug his own grave and made himself look like a total jackass, but I don't want to see his life ruined.

[SouthFloridaSpartan]

That is one seriously messed up kid....

[LA_Spartan]

Originally Posted by LA_Spartan

Questions:

1. Where were his parents during all of this? USA Today article says he was being heavily recruited by Cal. Didn't his parents (especially his idiot dad who cried as the press conference) wonder why they hadn't met Tedford, hadn't visited Cal, weren't receiving boatloads of letters and phone calls at the house? If it's my kid, I'm going to meet the HC before he commits anywhere.

2. Where was the coach and school officials? Didn't the coach wonder why no one from Cal ever spoke to him? Didn't the coach have an idea of the level of program this kid was qualified for? Don't they have to provide transcripts to Cal?

Mitchigan agrees with me! Where's my Pulitzer?

Originally Posted by Mitch Albom

I don't know where this kid's coaches were, where his parents were or where any responsible adult in his life was. But to allow a high school senior to fake it all the way to a news conference is an amazing act of gullibility.

All the schools Hart claimed to have recruited him -- including Cal, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Oklahoma State -- never did. Most never heard of him.

You would think someone around him might have noticed that, or wanted to meet an actual coach, or heard an actual recruiting call.

You would think someone might have asked, "Kevin, how come you haven't gone on any recruiting trips?"

MITCH ALBOM: In this hoax, maybe the joke is on us

[WBill]

The fallout is just beginning


RGJ.com: Prep football: Hodges might lose job over Hart hoax

[Gary in Bradenton]

Originally Posted by WBill

The fallout is just beginning


RGJ.com: Prep football: Hodges might lose job over Hart hoax

"Not at any time, at any moment in this process am I ashamed of my actions in this matter,"

He ****ing well should be. Its his ****ing JOB as a HS coach to help the kid out with the recruiting process. He was ****ing asleep at the wheel and could have saved the kid HUGE embarrassment, etc.

[Gary in Bradenton]

Originally Posted by MrMojoRisin

Now how do u feel knowing the kid made it up?

Still feel sorry for him. Obviously was craving attention and considering how open a process college football recruiting is at that level his parents and coaches failed him TERRIBLY. They are as much at fault as he is because they were SUPPOSEDLY responsible adults that should have a ****ing clue to start asking questions when they aren't getting to meet coaches face to face, etc.

[Enrico Palazzo]

Originally Posted by Gary in Bradenton

Still feel sorry for him. Obviously was craving attention and considering how open a process college football recruiting is at that level his parents and coaches failed him TERRIBLY. They are as much at fault as he is because they were SUPPOSEDLY responsible adults that should have a ****ing clue to start asking questions when they aren't getting to meet coaches face to face, etc.

Portland State is showing interest in the kid now. Coach there....Jerry Glanville. I don't find that coincidental!