Pictured above is Kevin Hart. Hart, a high-school lineman from Nevada,
recently held a ballyhooed press conference in his school's gym with
scores of adoring classmates and local media on hand. He was deciding
whether he'd play football at Cal or Oregon. And ... Cal it was!
The only problem was Cal coach Jeff Tedford had neither contacted nor
even heard of Kevin Hart. Ditto for Oregon's Mike Bellotti. Ditto for any of the coaches and schools supposedly recruiting Hart. So what happened?
This is at once sad, pathetic, and awesome. It's sad and pathetic
because a troubled and desperate young man did something stupid that's
going to follow him around for the rest of his life. It's awesome
because nothing I could dream up would serve as such a peerless example of the
rank, creepy, and mostly appalling sideshow that is big-time college
recruiting.
Don't you love it when you tell a little lie to impress a gal who goes to Princeton and it starts rolling and before you know it, its way out of control and you're on the 6pm news as the New Jersey Kiwanis Humanitarian of the Year for 1984 and you know deep down inside you damn well didn't spend the summer doing open heart surgery on poor kids in Guatemala or split those Siamese Twins in Chile, you actually ran the Tilt-O-Whirl at the Steel Pier in AC for minimum wage? Good times...
This kid lives in a town about 30 miles east of Reno, NV called Fernley. Yeah... we call it Fern-tucky... now you know why.
Come to think of it, we used to think it was a slap in the face of Fernley... now I'm thinking it's a slap in the face of Kentucky.
this is a sad case. not because i high schooler lied. (by the way, how many times did you lie when you were in high school?) but because we have put so much emphasis on this national signing day. as a two sport high school and college standout, i know that this is a ridiculous amount of exposure for these athletes. i mean, these guys arent "Freddy Adu's" or "Lebron James's" or even college superstars. their high school kids who excel at their sport. so yes, be happy that they are in the position that their in. that they do excell at their respective sport, that they have earned their way into major college where hopefully, no matter how much alcohol they consume or how much class they skip, will prepare them for their future in hopes that they will have a better future ahead of them. but please, when you get fooled by a high schooler who will be remembered as "most likely not to go to Cal" dont hate the player, hate the GAME!!!!!!
As a former D-1 athlete this is hilarious... I love when high school athletes blame injuries on the reason they never made it, but this is twice as good as that. I think it is rather odd that his coach didnt catch on to this. My coach was there every step of my recruitement.
Yeah, and I was the starting QB at Notre Dame until I pulled a hammy. Then I went on to be the super heavyweight greco roman wrestler on the Olympic team until I pulled a hammy. Favored to win the Boston Marathon until I.....
Kevin's dupe wasn't as ignorant as Bush's "weapons of mass destruction".... slight of hand.
Maybe he was making a point,"I'm just as good as the other jokers getting big time scholarships."
Or making a statement to those coaches at Cal and Oregon, that they should be looking at him.
If nothing else, he got people talking about him and that's the best PR stunt by an athlete from a small school can ask for. See football players aren't stupid.
where is this guy's HS coach? what is that guy thinking? i know you're a small town and probably have not been faced with the whole recruiting circus before, but good lord. it's nevada. not mars. you're a HS football coach. how do you let it get to that point? unfathomable.
If the hat fits you must committ. Bars everywhere should put up this kids picture to warn the ladies that, no he is not a surgeon, no he doesn't own a hellicopter, and no he is not a doctor.
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