As the start of college football gets closer and closer (hopefully), this is a reminder that your program can do nothing wrong, and all the other guys are cheaters and can only win over recruits — and ultimately games — by doing things the wrong way.
A ref is always on the take and has biased relationships with players and coaches, there is always an undercurrent of reality more than we see, and your program is the only one that does it the right way.
Somehow our society has turned into one where everything is a conspiracy theory. From the current COVID-19 pandemic (long story for another day), to the Earth being flat, to college football, it’s amazing the level of so-called “experts” that come out of the woodwork to claim to know what’s really going on despite being so far removed from the situation that the only answer is that they must have slept at a Holiday Inn recently (remember those commercials?).
That brings us to the latest. Clemson fans are all up in arms that somehow there was negative recruiting or money in play for four-star defensive back Jordan Hancock to flip his commitment from the Tigers to the Buckeyes. Somehow it’s not even remotely close to true that the kid always wanted to attend Ohio State anyhow and decided to go with his heart.
It’s unlikely that this video from Jeremy Birmingham from Letterman Row will put it all to rest, but he sat down with Hancock and asked him that very question. And yeah, it appears Hancock has simply always wanted to wear Scarlet and Gray.
“No, they (recruits and coaches) didn’t say anything bad on Clemson’s part,” Hancock said. “We really didn’t talk about Clemson. They thought it was a great decision for me to go to Clemson honestly — they just had a lot of respect for me for that. But it was just us keeping in touch, asking how the family is, how the family’s doing and simple stuff like that. It’s just a great relationship we have.”
You can watch the entire exchange below thanks to Birmingham and Letterman Row.
Did Ohio State have to “negatively recruit” against Clemson to flip Jordan Hancock? He says no, and he says they didn’t #EndofStory pic.twitter.com/hcUgBR6ZOm
— Jeremy Birmingham (@Birm) July 22, 2020
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Good enough? Probably not, but at least we’ve all heard it now from the recruit himself instead of message boards and Tweets.
Now, your move QAnon, er — Clemson fan.