Rivals Gets Catfished By Fake Recruit, So Now I'm Gonna Catfish My College Program Because #Content

A few high school students got the best of a few college football recruiting websites recently, after creating a fake prospect in an attempt to fool everyone.

An Instagram post from Elite College Football shed some light on a catfishing situation, in which some students created a fake recruit named Blake Carrienger, listing him as a 6-foot-6, 315-pound offensive lineman from Knoxville, Tennessee. A Twitter account was created and he had “received” offers from Alabama, Georgia  and others.

Rivals.com picked up on the story and listed Carrienger as a three-star prospect. Another recruiting site, 247Sports, listed him in its composite rankings but did not provide its own evaluation of the player.

Well this is hilarious.  JacMac introduced this story to us yesterday, but I had to give my $0.02 on it. because I love a good catfish story.

This story is right up my ally because I’m a college football message board guy, and more specifically a Northwestern football and Rivals’ Main Board message board guy.  Yes, I pay to read premium internet message boards.  $100 a year or so.  I get it, I’m a loser.  Fuck it.

From the days of sitting in AOL chatrooms posing as lesbians, to Manti Teo’s GF to fake Rivals profiles, a good cat fishing is never not funny to me.

Now this story isn’t quite as good as setting up a “hat dance” like the kid from Nevada a few years ago…

…but it’s a solid troll job nonetheless.  The Rivals recruiting “gurus” come off as complete and total assholes right here.

ALMOST as big of assholes as the morons who were tweeting the kid saying to go to Syracuse and other schools who were recruiting him:

It’s one thing to be really shitty at your job, but adults tweeting a 16-17 year old kids begging them to go to whatever school to play a sport there is just embarrassing.

Nevertheless, I’m here for it.  I’m here for it because Rivals parades around the internet stating that they provide independent analysis based on camp results, coaches opinions, etc., not “who’s offered X player”.  Well now we know that’s pretty much bullshit.  I’m sure this story will make it’s round the internet today and people will be shaming Rivals and dragging their name through the mud, and deservedly so.

But what this story really did is get my creative juices flowing.  I think I’m gonna fill out a bunch of fake recruiting questionnaires and send them to my old coach at THE North Central College and let them think a LHP hosing 88 with a 5-1 K/BB ratio is interested in their D3 program:

Stay tuned for results!