The Recruiting Reporter That Wasn't

[Goose]

Interesting read on a recruiting analyst, Jonathan Paige, that actually wasn't a real person.

On April 19, a recruiting analyst named Jonathon Paige wrote the first post on his new blog, Summer Hoop Scoop. That post came with a modest announcement:

After a seven month hiatus and brief retirement, I am back. A lot of you followed me last summer on the website and twitter. I originally thought the yearly AAU circuit grind might be a bit much moving forward, but I just couldn't hang up the kicks and notepad.
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With that, Paige soon got down to the business of finding and breaking recruiting information. He quickly amassed around 500 Twitter followers, and several mainstream college basketball reporters, assistant coaches and AAU personnel were among them. His site's popularity grew. His news dispatches were cited in blog posts -- including by some of the more popular team sites in the college hoops blogosphere -- and his insights were debated and bandied on many a message board.

The problem will all of this? Jonathon Paige doesn't exist.

 

[Buffnik]

Incredible.

Not so much what this ruse proved, but that someone would take the time to do it. I bet he had fun, though. :smile2:

 

[Goose]

Personally, I would have had a big recruit talk up CU, but I'm pretty biased.