How To Know An Offer Is “Fake”

Below we will be discussing HOW TO KNOW AN OFFER IS FAKE. I hope this is able to help!

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So “Fake Offers” are extremely common in the recruiting world. Essentially fake offers would be described as non committable offers. Where the athlete cannot commit to the school. There are a few situations where this happens.

1)- The athlete is not old enough. You cannot receive a committable offer until the summer before your junior year. So any 7th,8th,9th grader you see with an “offer” is likely BS. Now “early recruiting” is a real thing. Coaches can see a kid who’s talented, he might even play varsity and give him an offer based on potential. But they are not binded to that offer. If the kid ends up getting hurt or doesn’t end up being that good… it’s not going to hurt the college. Imagine betting on a sporting event… where if the team wins, you win money. If the team loses- you get your money back. That’s essentially what it is. If the kid ends up being really good they are like “oh we were one of the first to believe in you”… when really they didn’t have to believe. It was a verbal offer. Real offers are committable and that’s the first question you ask if you receive one.

2)- The offers are paid for. Have you ever seen an offer that doesn’t make sense? Like the kid isn’t that good or he’s like friken 12 years old… yeah that’s the worst. I didn’t know this until about 3 years ago- but some people will pay college coaches (99.9% of the time it’s an assistant who doesn’t even have the power to give an offer) to give their kid a “verbal offer” for exposure. So they can post it on social media. The hope is that other coaches will see it then check the player out…. But if you’re not good- you can have the greatest marketing strategy in the world… you’re still not good.

So guys don’t believe everything you see. The best players play college football. Are there things you can do to get noticed, absolutely but the best guys do things the right way and get legit attention when they are old enough to get that attention.