If you ask high school athletes, “Who’s recruiting you or where are you going to college?” and things like that, many of them will stretch the truth.
Many high school athletes will say that they have committed to a particular college when it’s not true or they will list or name a lot of colleges when none of those colleges have contacted them at all.
This is just part of the recruiting process. You hear about it, you read about it all the time and in most cases a lot of it is not true.
We’re talking about athletes, who are not major college recruits, listing or naming or talking about college programs that probably don’t even know who they are. This goes on all the time, it’s just a way of making some players feel great.
Stretching the truth is more about getting your name out there amongst your peers. It really has no value and it carries no weight. It’s just a lot of hot air and a lot of wasted time. It goes on a lot with parents, too.
When at various events, football games, AAU events, high school basketball games or wherever you may be, parents are talking about who’s going to what college or who is recruiting who and it’s just a lot of talk.
A lot of the times, it’s really just people stretching the truth. Someone may get a letter in a mail from a major university and now all of a sudden that player thinks that they’re being recruited. When in actuality, it’s not happening at all.
Keep in mind, letters do not mean you’re being recruited.
Stretching the truth has been going on for a long time, in all sports. Players do it, coaches do it, and everyone does it. Do you consider that lying? In my opinion, I say it is lying.
So it’s going to continue to go on. You read in a newspaper that players have made commitments to particular colleges. Players who are just in the 10th or 11th grade and they are already committing to college programs!
High school kids committing to college programs when they’re still in the 9th, 10th or 11th grade is ridiculous. It’s just all hype.
Most of the time, these colleges are not even recruiting these kids and may not even recruit them at all. It’s just a way of a particular athlete who may have some talent to get his name in the paper, to create some kind of buzz and excitement for himself.
But to me, it’s false recruiting. It doesn’t help the kid. It doesn’t help anyone. It’s just more talk, more chatter, and more people writing about it on websites or message boards or blogs.
That’s all it is. I don’t really get into that sort of thing, because it doesn’t make sense. I’m not going to stretch the truth about a player, about a team or coach or his or her situation. I’m going to tell the truth all the time.
So stop stretching people!
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