It appears everyone knew Bishop Sycamore were scammers except ESPN.
BSO reported how Bishop Sycamore isn’t even a real high school but could finesse their way into a nationally televised game on ESPN against powerhouse IMG Academy.
Even the ESPN announcers wonder very loudly why they were showing this game.
For a moment, people thought it was just a bad decision, and Bishop Sycamore was just a small school that was outmatched.
Once people went down the rabbit, it was much worse.
One of the ex-players on the team had a LOT to say about Bishop Sycamore.
Aaron Boyd played for Bishop Sycamore in 2018 during his junior of High School. He was recruited by them and told their season would be documented by Netflix similar to Last Chance U (spoiler alert that was a lie).
Boyd and his mother thought it was a great opportunity, so he left the high school and moved to Ohio.
Let’s say what he was told would happen and what really happened turned out to be two different things.
He spoke to Complex about a few of the issues, and it was wild.
There was no building. Aight, listen to this. This is the crazy shit. This is what you wanna hear. I first moved out there, and we were staying in a hotel in Delaware [Ohio]. We were staying there for like five months. I was 15, and everybody else was 19 and 20.
Didn’t have any housing. All the players came to find out, and we never paid the hotel. [The school was] writing them bounced checks.
I didn’t know what the [arrest] warrant was for, but if it’s for the head coach writing bounced checks, that’s accurate.
There’s shit I could say, but I don’t really want to. For the last month and a half, we had about 35 players. We moved into these new houses. For that month and a half, we were all sleeping on the floor. We had to go rob Meijers, Krogers, Walmart because that’s the only way we can eat. N*ggas almost got stabbed in there.
I would say it is wild that parents would send their kids away without doing their research, but alas, ESPN is a BILLION dollar company, and they didn’t do their due diligence.
ESPN needs to do a lot better than the weak apology they released.
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