Update: I can’t disagree:
I gotta tell you, @jayrigdon5 is a real POS for writing the fake tweet garbage about Emery on The Comeback and then not writing a retraction, instead saying "if its fake". This idiot couldn't even tell that the 2 accounts were totally different.
— Hi. (@JBen1980) August 11, 2018
See below update for more, but this is why it’s important to vet everything, no matter who brings it to your attention.
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In perhaps the best recent example of why no one should ever tweet, 5-star Georgia running back commit John Emery Jr. tweeted that he chose Georgia over LSU because Georgia director of player personnel Marshall Malchow paid him to do so.
Not in those exact words, though, Emery did use a few emojis:
https://twitter.com/jbook37/status/1028031074813661184
UPDATE: OR it’s all fake:
https://twitter.com/Brett_McMurphey/status/1027870040706768902
(UPDATE continued: sigh. Assuming it is fake, it’s dumb. If it’s not, it was still just a joke, so the rest of the analysis is fine.)
Emery committed in late July, and he’s considered one of the best class of 2019 prospects in the country. And in all honesty, he was most likely joking, because there’s no way anyone could possibly be that dumb. And in a vacuum, it’s kind of funny! Big-time college recruits are in the perfect position to know just how silly the recruiting process is, and there are people from every fanbase convinced every other school is paying recruits.
Emery making a joke like this should be hilarious, and it kind of is! But it’s also going to bring down the NCAA, perhaps the world’s most humorless organization, and it’s certainly going to fuel message boards for other schools, which exist just for this kind of faux-controversy. Emery deleted the tweet promptly, and responded with this:
Don’t have time for negativity, only way is up.
— John Emery (@Emery4____) August 10, 2018
That should take care of things!
At least he didn’t say he was hacked, though maybe it would have been better if he’d done so.
In any case, this will probably be kind of a thing for a while, and then it won’t be a thing, unless the NCAA decides to kick over every possible stone in Georgia. As they’re certainly inveterate rock-kickers, that very well might happen.
It was a good joke though, assuming it was a joke. And if it’s the truth, it’s actually even funnier.
DAWG fans will cry foul,but those with ties to recruiting know just how true it really is what’s going on right now. Recruiting 1980’s style and being brazen about it. Most try to hide it,they don’t. This Era is not like bygone eras where Great players like Hershal get what we all know they got and came in the hardest workers on the team.Today’s players looking for the ticket are entitled ,think that they are owed once they get theirs and don’t mind being loud mouth about it.
You are truly a mentally stunted individual or SEC hater with no clue about how the process works.
No one is dumb enough to think an employee of any university would directly pay a prospect
You should be ashamed of taunting a kid’s name and then refusing to print a retraction when it has been proven that Emery NEVER tweeted that BS. The guy who (A Bammer fan) who created the fake Brett McMurphy account that has fooled so many of you simpletons just used the App that other trolls use to generate fake tweets by lookalike accounts.
Twitter already suspended the fake account (try looking up @Brett_McMurphey) and you will see it is suspended. Then go to @Brett_McMurphy (no “e” in McMurphy) and you will see the truth.
Sad and pathetic that you don’t have the integrity to do the right thing and admit your mistake.