Written by Richard Johnson at SB Nation.com
Just when you think recruiting can’t get any weirder, it does. A prospect by the name of Unique Brissett II apparently took many people for a ride, including The Palm Beach Post, a Kentucky 247Sports site, and a Michigan State Fansided.com site in posts that are each now deleted.
Top 8. Please Respect My Decision Thank You!🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/gq73JBn7Z8
— Unique Brissett II (@Briss_II) May 20, 2017
The jig was found out by, among other people, 247Sports Miami beat writer Andrew Ivins. This all started with a now-deleted Twitter account tweeting out a top-five school list. In two separate message board posts, Ivins laid out the details of what’s been going down.
Globe Institute of Technology (N.Y.) wide receiver/running back Unique Brissett II tweeted out late Sunday that Miami was in his top group of schools along with a number of other programs. From what I have been told Brissett doesn’t hold an offer from the Hurricanes and has had absolutely zero contact with the coaches to date meaning he’s making stuff up. Kentucky’s coaches also haven’t had any contact with him.
-The kid (or person) has claimed offers at one point from Notre Dame, Michigan, Penn State and Michigan State. Those schools have never heard him according to the people that cover the schools.
– Unique apparently tried to commit to Navy two or three weeks ago.
– The highlights he’s using apparently are videos just being ripped off of other top high school recruits.
The school Brissett claimed to go to is a JuCo that closed down, but it did once have a football program. The main YouTube page attached to Brissett has three different highlight videos, and each has a different Twitter account in the videos’ descriptions.
A Facebook search for Brissett yielded a result.
It lists Brissett — if it’s his real name — as a German-American living in the Bronx attending Westchester Community College in Westchester, N.Y. It appears to belong to a real person, although we’re unsure if their real name is Unique Brissett II.
A Google search for Brissett and WCC shows a dormant Hudl profile with only one picture. The active Facebook profile gloated about taking the college football world for a spin.
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