Fake Offers vs. Real Offers

Below we will be discussing THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REAL OFFERS & FAKE OFFERS. I hope this is able to help!

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So “fake offers” are super common nowadays. These are either verbal, non committable or paid for offers. Let me explain.

So you cannot receive a legitimate scholarship offer until the summer before your junior year. Yes early recruiting attention is a thing, but if you see anybody posting an “offer” especially in 8th or 9th grade… it’s most likely verbal. Which means the college is not binded to the offer. It’s essentially a “potential” offer. Essentially the college is saying “you might be good, so we are going to offer you in case- so if you end up being really good, you remember us as one of the first schools to offer you”. It doesn’t mean anything. because A LOT can happen between the time of your freshman year to your senior year in terms of injuries, growth and how you perform.

Now, what a lot of people will do is try to game the system. This shocked me when I found out this happens a couple of years ago- but what people will do is pay assistant college coaches, generally a few thousand dollars, to give them a verbal offer. It’s cash. Under the table. Non taxed income for coaches and all they have to do is say that they are “offering” the kid. Now why would ANYBODY do this? The college coach makes money & the kid gets to post the offer on Twitter… in hopes that other colleges see it and start looking at him. But here is the thing… if your film doesn’t back up the offer… colleges will actually take you LESS serious because they know it’s BS. It’s a very shady world and shady business. So if you ever see someone with an “offer” and it just flat out doesn’t make sense… that’s what happens. That’s what a lot of these “recruiting agents” or street agents as I call them do. They charge the family like $5,000 and then take $2,000 of the $5,000 and pay some assistant they know under the table for an offer. Some guys I’ve heard charge $5,000 per offer. So parents think it’s worth it because it will save them money in the long run…but more often than not I’ve seen kids end up with 0 legit offers when signing day comes up… and the parents just wasted sometimes upwards of $15,000 dollars. And then they have to pay for college. It’s a huge scam.

So why do I write all of this? It’s not to bag on the guys who do it. What they do with their money and time is their business. I say this for those of you who get discouraged or feel like you are behind when you see all of these kids with “offers”. Everyone’s journey is different. People will scam and lie. “Fake it until you make it”. That’s the worst long term strategy of all time. What gets you a real offer is having great film, going to camps, promoting yourself on X, having a great relationship with your high school head coach and good grades. Stay focused & stay in your lane. All the dudes that make it, did it the legit way. All the high school “all stars” who fake their way to exposure generally don’t.