Kevin Hart- What happened there?
By now you have assuredly heard the story of Kevin Hart, the high school football player who faked a football scholarsip to the University of California, but I wanted to throw in some questions and opinions that I don’t think have been raised yet.
Kevin Hart faked an entire recruitment including fake phone calls and everything. The entire process was made up by him from the beginning and ended with him holding an all school press conference where he announced his intentions to play for Cal. He specifically sited that speaking to the Cal head coach is what pushed him over the top. My question is why didn’t anyone know about this?
Where Kevin is from is a small town in Nevada that hasn’t possibly ever had a collegiate football recruit. Most college coaches are in touch with the high school head coach from the beginning of any recruitment but not here. The college coaches never called because they weren’t interested. That’s red flag #1.
My red flag #2 is what were the parents thinking? I know they had never been through the recruiting before but to not know your kid had been lying to everyone for months is alarming. I’m not a perfect parent by any means, but this is funny to me. After all, if schools were really that interested they would’ve been very involved with parents every step of the way. Again, i know they haven’t been through the process before but they have to look back now and see the even bigger red flags to them.
Lastly, I want to compliment Kevin Hart on his honesty. He dug his own grave here but at the same time was willing to try to dig himself out of it. In a time where we sit and watch Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee fight over the truth at least this kid stood up and will take his lumps for a long time. As youngsters we don’t always understand how our decisions today effect us later in life. I think Kevin will have a great grasp on this. What started out as something so small ballooned into a national story and he’ll forever be remembered for this just as Bartman is remembered in Chicago Cubs baseball history. I’ve already heard numerous people discuss having fake news conferences to announce things that never took place and refer to it as ‘pulling a Hart’. I wish Kevin the best of luck in life and though he may never realize his dream of playing college football he will be soon understand that life isn’t over and that he has two choices. Quit or move on. I think he’ll move on. Telling the truth was the first step and I’m proud of him.
