Northern Illinois coach responds after online exchange with virtual NCAA football prospect
By SDS Staff
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Believe it or not, there are people online that are willing to scam recruits for money and college coaches for exposure so it’s understandable that Northern Illinois’ Thomas Hammock was confused when a “prospect” named Patrick Flowers reached out regarding a recent scholarship offer.
Needless to say, there was some confusion from Coach Hammock.
The issue being Flowers isn’t an actual prospect, he’s just an account created for a virtual player from the NCAA 14 Football video game.
Flowers was offered by Northern Illinois on the video game, which led the following exchange on Twitter:
Once Coach Hammock understood what exactly was going on, he played along with the joke and offered up this comment.
Due to NCAA rules I’m not allowed to comment on specific recruits- even from the class of ‘14. I would like to state that all of our offers are committable & come personally from me. People pull offers every day, we’re not in that business. Honesty is a policy. Man he got me.??
— Thomas Hammock (@NIUCoachHammock) April 16, 2020
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