Beware of fake head coaches on Facebook

High profile high school recruits are on Facebook.  Fans of the schools recruiting these kids are on Facebook.  See where this is leading?

Before the interweb became a part of our everyday lives, the slippery slope presented by social networking web sites was something that coaches and the NCAA could never have foreseen.

Let’s say a fan of State U. finds a recruit on Facebook.  The fan in question can then send the kid a friend request, just like he would to a co-worker or a chick he’s stalking.  If the fan’s request is accepted then he’s got a direct online connection to the kid.  He’s then free to beg the kid to come to his favorite school.

If you think grown men are above doing this, thing again.  The debate rages on school-specific message boards between fans who think this practice is almost as creepy as pedophilia and the fans who have no problem friending Johnny Quarterback.

But a new twist has emerged in this, one that’s both equal parts funny (well, to Kentucky fans it’s not) and creepy.

Marquis Teague’s is the hotshot junior point guard out of Indianapolis.  He narrowed his college choices down to Louisville and Kentucky, and a few weeks ago announced that he’d be attending Kentucky (well, for a year or two, anyway).

Like most teenagers today, he’s got a Facebook account.  At some point he accepted a friend request from someone who he thought was Kentucky coach John Calipari.  This exchange between the two happened about a week ago:

Yeah, that’s Teague telling who he thinks is John Calipari that he’ll gonna keep his mouth shut.  About what, who knows, but it probably involves stuff that would make Jesus Shuttlesworth blush.

That’s funny on its own, but it gets funnier.  It turns out Fake Calipari is…you guessed it…a Louisville fan.  The dude taking credit provided the following proof on Scout.com’s Louisville message board:

It seems that the culprit, who goes by the handle “2NC7FF,” was tired of having his fandom questioned and figured this would be a good way to show how much he loves his Cardinals:

I don’t think for one second that this will lead to Calipari (the real one, not 2NC7FF) or Kentucky getting into any hot water.  But it will probably serve to ratchet up the bitterness factor between two rivals that already hated each other.