To all football prospects, IGNORE any contact from the @UNC_Dlinecoach because it is a FAKE ACCOUNT and is recklessly handing out offers.— Tar Heel Illustrated (@HeelIllustrated) July 15, 2016
What kind of ahole does this to kids?
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now's the time to tell everyone don't make up a twitter for a d1 coach and hand out offers.
Also makes me wish offers were real not "verbal", "conditional" or anything else. You get an offer its real and in your hand.
will be interesting if these were just offers done over twitter or did these kids get a phone call..
If it was a phone call then that's a much bigger issue and even more sick that someone would do that.
ironically fake UNC has MUCH higher academic standards
also, what a dick
Yes, messing with a kid's hopes and dreams is pretty low indeed
*insert joke about fake twitter accounts and fake classes*
Wonder if the ncaa is gonna make any rules to stop somebody from doing this in the future
How would they enforce it if the jerk was a fan and not under NCAA juristiction?
The rule wouldn't be one that would be used to punish someone for being a jerk. It would be one that would prevent said jerk from exploiting a loophole. Like, offers can only be printed on official university letterhead with a super secret watermark or something. Or maybe something just as simple as offers submitted over Twitter are not considered real offers.
Feel bad for the kids involved, but I find this actually really funny.
Then you have a shitty sense of humor.
You can't reasonably believe an offer over twitter is legit.
Umm hate to break it to you but according to recruits that exactly how they have gotten legitimate offers, over Twitter DM.
I thought all the UNC coaches were fake.
In spite of this, though, those fake offers aren't cool.
No, it is only the professors and classes that are fake. The coaches are real.
10:1 odds its a NCSU fan doing this
Urban Meyer. Nick Saban. Jimbo Fisher.
Those kind of aholes who offer kids noncommittable offers. Same thing, even if this ahole was catfishing.
You misspelt Harbaugh a lot.
wasn't clay dean originally going to have a scholarship and then turned into a walk-on...? it's a little different because of the new staff, etc. but it's not like virginia tech is above that
I suppose it's a little different if you're changing a program's administration.
I'm not aware of VT doing this as a general operating procedure.
If this happened last year we'd have to worry about Gaines flipping.
Dammit! Now I can't find the receipt for those new cleats.
The only way to account for something like this is to make all offers written and guaranteed.
Until then, there is pretty much nothing that gutless organization can do to stop kids from getting screwed.
Larry Fedora has a TKP account, maybe he can comment...?
Larry only logs in during the season though to study up on French's film reviews.
He's busy teaching summer school... /s