The bizarre story of Kevin Hart (official fraud)

[Muck]

Cal really attracts the crazies. My brother graduated with a guy who said he was going there but he just ended up failing out of community colleges in the area while chasing older men.

You should take a couple of classes there sometime.

While you're a Stanford student.

And still a member of the US Marine Corps.

Fun times.

 

[JCOSU86]

On a related note, I'd like to announce my committment to the University of Ohio State.

I have talked to JT several times, though never face to face.

I will be playing fullback.

 

[Steve19]

On a related note, I'd like to announce my committment to the University of Ohio State.

I have talked to JT several times, though never face to face.

I will be playing fullback.

They may be laughing now, but when you show them that 7.0 40 speed, you can bet they'll stop.

 

[tibor75]

On a related note, I'd like to announce my committment to the University of Ohio State.

I have talked to JT several times, though never face to face.

I will be playing fullback.

Did he baptize you?

 

[tibor75]

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

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."

And yet, about 10 days ago, a Nevada assistant coach told Ault, "Coach, you won't believe this, but the Hart kid is gonna go to Oregon."

"What?" said Ault.

"Oregon's offering him a scholarship," said the assistant.

A few days later, after spending time with nine players making their official weekend recruiting visits to Nevada, Ault came home, ate dinner and then saw some jaw-dropping footage on the local news.

There was the non-prospect Hart placing a Cal cap on his head.

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?


The Nevada coach really keeps tabs on potential players.

 

[WoodyWorshiper]

On a related note, I'd like to announce my committment to the University of Ohio State.

I have talked to JT several times, though never face to face.

I will be playing fullback.

"The Univerisity Of Ohio State?"

Almost as frigg'in pathetic as Barksdale committing to:
"The University Of LSU"

LSU can keeps Barksdale, but I guess we're still stuck with you (?):2004:

Peace.

 

[shetuck]

even the news media is having trouble keeping their stories "clean" from the constant loom-and-doom of the 800 pound gorilla. they need a capo regime editor...

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Pryor restraint sadly lacking

Pryor restraint sadly lacking

[SIZE=-1]By Eric Heyl[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]TRIBUNE-REVIEW[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Sunday, February 10, 2008 [/SIZE]

They piped up when they should have clammed up.

Terrelle Pryor and Kevin Hart are high school athletes of widely divergent skill, with little in common other than an inclination for speech when their recent situations begged for silence.

Pryor is the all-world Jeannette High School quarterback and future National Football League star being recruited by Ohio State, Penn State, the universities of Oregon and Michigan, the U.S. Marines, a bevy of runway supermodels and fringe political parties still searching for a presidential candidate.

Hart is -- let's be charitable here -- a somewhat less sought-after lineman from Fernley High School near Reno, Nev.

Both young men drew headlines for having nothing to say, but saying it anyway.

Jean-Paul Sartre, the late existentialist philosopher and author of the acclaimed "Being and Nothingness," might have been proud.

But then, Sartre was too busy inventing phenomenological ontology to follow sports closely.

[...]

What [Pryor] said: After considerable soul-searching, he decided that he hasn't yet decided where he should go.

Why he should have clammed up: Deciding not to decide isn't really a decision. It's indecision.

The time he spent announcing he hasn't made up his mind could have been better spent making up his mind, at which point an announcement might actually serve a purpose.

HART

Why he piped up: Crowds assembled in the auditorium to see him become the first Fernley High player to accept a major college scholarship.

What he said: After considerable soul-searching, he chose the California Golden Bears over the Oregon Ducks.

Why he should have clammed up: Not only had California not offered him a scholarship, the university didn't even recruit him.

[...]

There is a lesson to be learned from Pryor and Hart piping up when they should have clammed up. Both of them seem intelligent enough, but perhaps I should put it in terms more easily grasped by gridiron guys.

When you don't have anything to say, silence is as golden as a University of California bear.

 

[MaxBuck]

If Eric Heyl wants to find someone who "lacks restraint" he need look no further than his own mirror. What a tool.

 

[NastyDogg72]

SI.com - Writers - Andy Staples: How?to tell whether a player is actually being recruited - Monday February 11, 2008 3:50PM

<H2>Lessons from Hart's hoax

How to tell whether a player is really being recruited

Posted: Monday February 11, 2008 3:08PM; Updated: Monday February 11, 2008 4:43PM

Fernley (Nev.) coach Mark Hodges (right) may lose his job over the handling of Kevin Hart's recruiting hoax.
AP

The Kevin Hart saga zoomed past weird last week and careened directly into surreal. How? Jerry Glanville got involved.
Sources told Portland, Ore., television station KPTV late last week that the black-clad, tickets-for-Elvis-leaving former Atlanta Falcons coach, who now works at I-AA Portland State, had asked Fernley (Nev.) High coaches for game film of Hart. This after Hart fabricated his entire recruitment and didn't get caught until after announcing a non-existent commitment to Cal at a very real assembly attended by everyone at his school.

</H2>

 

[calibuck]

The story gets better......the coach has sued the school district and the Board for $20,000 for defamation of HIM! Apparently the district 'wrote him up' (disciplinary procedure) for mishandling the situation with Hart. The coach has in return sued the district for 'hurting his image'.

Sounds like Hart has a career in marketing all lined up, he's a natural self-promoter. Now all he needs is to find a college that will accept him.......Hey, RR, doesn't Meatchicken need another stud-ent?

:gobucks3::gobucks4:

 

[Gatorubet]

The story gets better......the coach has sued the school district and the Board for $20,000 for defamation of HIM! Apparently the district 'wrote him up' (disciplinary procedure) for mishandling the situation with Hart. The coach has in return sued the district for 'hurting his image'.

Well, I'd think that checking to make sure that either team was actually offering would be a pre-req for old coachy allowing the ceremony. Nah - no "mishandling" there.

Sounds like Hart has a career in marketing all lined up, he's a natural self-promoter. Now all he needs is to find a college that will accept him.......Hey, RR, doesn't Meatchicken need another stud-ent?

:gobucks3::gobucks4:

Sell the book and tv rights for as much an amount equal to a four year state school tuition? Sweeeeet strategy!

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Sounds like Hart has a career in marketing all lined up, he's a natural self-promoter. Now all he needs is to find a college that will accept him.......Hey, RR, doesn't Meatchicken need another stud-ent?

Word on the Nevada board is that the kid is an imbecile: 1.5 gpa and never even took the SAT or ACT.

 

[Gatorubet]

Word on the Nevada board is that the kid is an imbecile: 1.5 gpa and never even took the SAT or ACT.

Sell the book and tv rights for as much an amount equal to a four year state school tuition? Sweeeeet strategy!

Or for enough to buy a turkey sub, a Bud tallboy and a small bag of meth rocks...depending.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Or for enough to buy a turkey sub, a Bud tallboy and a small bag of meth rocks...depending.

I see that you've never been to Fernley. Clearly someone less ignorant about Fernley, NV would certainly know that he'd buy a tallboy of Coors (banquet beer not the compromised "light")

 

[calibuck]

Out in Fernley, the turkey sub would more likely be a prairie dog sub, and a 'Curs' (Colorado kool-aid, commonly known as Coors). There are a number of meth labs in that area.....it's also close to the new Top Gun headquarters, so the Navy pilots can scan for the heat during their dogfights (Top Gun left San Diego about ten years ago). Sorry to hear about the kid's punk GPA, but he still is a good candidate for RR's new gig Up North!

:gobucks3::gobucks4: