How A FAKE High School Football Team Got On ESPN... (Bishop Sycamore)
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- Опубліковано 30 сер 2021
- ESPN thought it was broadcasting a game between two of the countries best high school football teams on Sunday, but it didn’t take long for the announcers to realize that wasn’t the case. The matchup featured IMG Academy, one of, if not the best team in the nation and... Bishop Sycamore, a school that isn’t a real school and has never actually won a game. So, how the hell did this happen?
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This totally redefines what a “fantasy football team” is.
I’m
Apt
😂😂😂
actual real life Last Chance U lol. School of Hard Knocks
Uncle Rico was the QB
Bishop is giving me a second shot of living my dreams….. 27 and proud to announce I’ll be using the remaining of my high school eligibility 10 years later to play one season at Bishop.
Ima be like LeBron. “I’m taking my talent to Bishop Sycamore” 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂😭😭 we need to form the hoop squad and finesse the NCAA tournament
I'm 36 and o line skills might be better than ever
😂😂
Can't lie this is the most interesting and out right bizarre thing I heard
Bra they was 20-30
100% everything about this is hilarious! And now I know it won’t happen again for a long time so let’s enjoy this now. I wish I watched it 😂😂
@@CallMeO08 true
Just shows you how stupid every single person at ESPN is
In a long time 💯💯💯💯💯
I love that shot of the head coach drinking the Gatorade. He's like "idk wtf I'm doing but if I drink this it'll look like I'm experienced"
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Exactly what I was thinking 😂
I got curious about this so I watched about half of the game as it's here on UA-cam ... the entire time he never puts his headset on ... others on his sideline were wearing them ... doubt they were actually connected to anything.
Did you ever find John Pederson?
Time stamp or get kicked
I love how this bounces between, "they are all a bunch of adults" and "no one is looking out for these kids" over and over.
some just graduated high school and are teenagers, and some are in their early to mid 20s. I would consider that both...
It’s hilarious
Only worrying about the football bullies besides worrying about the kids , they could have gotten hurt ,
Sad
@VisualEYE • 20 years ago football players understand that football comes with some risk. The younger, legal age teams were not worried about tossing around some junior college dropout.
I think he means dangerous for the kids they are playing. And they of course are adults
It is ESPN’s fault for hiring such an incompetent third party company. And for not Googling the teams they are commenting on.
@@SocratesSodiumJr it might not define the company but sometimes all it takes is one mistake for your reputation to go down
@@SocratesSodiumJr one mistake is all it takes
@@SocratesSodiumJr Okay bud you’re foolishly defending ESPN idk why
@@SocratesSodiumJr this is the first I’ve heard of paragon, this is all I’m gonna remember and i am not alone in that
@@SocratesSodiumJr Still this is clearly a case of not even trying .... FFS this "school" doesn't even really exist.
How the hell does 30 kids and "coach" with an arrest warrant go on national television and make ESPN look like a laughing stock,welcome to 2021.
Broadcasting probably the most talked about high school football game ever sounds like genius to me.
Because ESPN and Disney are more concerned with diversity than ability when it comes to hiring people for top positions.
@VegasGirl35 This is why I cheer Let's Go Brandon.
@@culdeestudios1725 So childish
They been a laughing stock for years that's why they lost half of their viewers in recent years.
It blows my mind that IMG scheduled Bishop Sycamore again. Like fr they already played them in 2020, they had to have known before all of us
Lmao they just like getting W’s 😂😂
Just an easy W to make them look better
If you think about IMG had to do some research or at least have gotten to the point like "okay this is definitely a shady scam "H.S." football team. And just felt like kicking the shit out of them for a second time just to rub it in.
@@joshuahershberger4120 They sure didn't show any mercy.
Its called a "cupcake" (record padding) game. Its the same thing as a Division 1 college school scheduling a game against something like Fred's Business College and Used Tire Mart, or against "Walla Walla Barber's College", or something like that.
Their initials are literally BS how did the ESPN guys not see it from the beginning🤦♂️
I am wondering how they got away with it for so long.
ESPNs production team did research and found red flags but higher ups decided to go ahead with the game anyways.
ESPN obviously didn’t want to be labeled as r…
You do the rest.
@@BlueLighteningGojo
Yes that's true.
@@jemazondo9331
I heard or read that somewhere.
Bishop Sycamore NCAA14 dynasty where you can only recruit Juco transfers💀
You got me thinking
This is funniest shit I’ve seen in awhile 😭😭
I can’t tell if it’s funny or serious
@@HockeyHound12 50/50😂
I mean if the final score was reversed they would definitely get that netflix doc.
I'm betting we still get that documentary.
There will be a movie about this.
Having watched part of this game .... how they scored against IMG last year is the real mystery ...
@@toddtaylor6506 they had some tough players last year. They were a terrible team who had some alright athletes.
Wind up as a 30 for 30..lol
The magic school bus scene had me dying 🤣
The Roy Johnson 😂😂😂😂
Too much, Magic Bus...lol
Nah it was cringe
😂🤣😂 it took me out lol
The Bishop Sycamore story really reminds me of the movie “Accepted” lol
I was totally thinking of that. Except Accepted was a for a good cause. Where on the other hand this is not lol.
I was thinking the same thing 😂
My thoughts exactly!
This is great 🤣
Which is also... Set in Ohio
Legend has Bishop Sycamore was trying to " a 10 Star recruit" that transferred from Polk High that once scored 4 touchdowns in a game.
I can neither confirm nor deny this report. 🏈😜👍
@@BigDave423 " Duke ... Duke of Earl". 🤣🤣🤣
I heard he's also being offered an endorsement deal with "Thom McCann"...
LOL... and aging Al Bundy at RB would have been an upgrade.
Bishop Sycamore is like what happens when you use "create a team" in NCAA and give all the players sub-60 ratings. I never thought I'd see someone do this in real life.
Dude in charge of this Bishop scheme watched the movie "Accepted" way too many times lmao
ESPN is absolutely not without fault here, same with IMG who is obviously just gladly playing litteraly anybody that will agree to play them...high school or not.
with all the people involved in the production, setup, commentary, yeah even IMG, etc. it’s crazy that no one noticed how not real and/or good bishop sycamore is
Exactly, ESPN can tell me any stat of any player no matter if they just got called up to the bigs that day. Check out the in depth stories of every player at the little league world series. Yet somehow we are to believe no research whatsoever was done in preparation for this game.
IMG, while also not a legit HS IMO, actually does play a very legit schedule. Many of their games are played against state and national powers from all over the country, and they wipe the floor against even the best teams.
they knew.
Go through all this trouble to get blown out by every team
And get paid to do it
IMG needs to investigated as well no way you play this team 2 YEARS IN A ROW !!! and don’t realize they aren’t a real team
Like everyone else that has beaten up on them they don't care.
The need to make a movie about this. With guys like Tracy morgan and Kevin heart as players.
Lol I think kevin hart is actually doing this. At least thats what the twitter said
and chris rock can be the assistant manager, oh wait i seen this movie befo
Yes! Lmfao that would be funny af
🔥
That’s racist. You only what those actors to play them because they are black. Get outta here you racist right winger
Biden 2024!
I CANNOT WAIT for bishop sycamore basketball team to face off vs Duke this coming year! Should be a barn burner 🔥
Seriously they have a bball team too🤦🏼♀️
I am happy to announce that I have just been accepted to Bishop Sycamore!
They guaranteed me I would play 100% of snaps
Well have fun playing 3 games a week .... try not to die, lol.
We played them last year (from the Cleveland area) and the one dude told me that he just got on the team one day before the game against us
ESPN itself is a bit shady so the fact they got bamboozled makes me laugh.
ESPN broadcast the most talked about high school game ever, sounds like genius to me
IMG scheduling them not once but twice, is like an amateur golden glove boxer picking a person off the street to pad their stat line so they can look good to the Olympic committee
Like Apollo Creed and Rocky?
its not over for bishop sycamore, never doubt the underdog. Gonna be a sick inspirational movie about this team 20 years from now
I guarantee someone will unironically make a film about this
Lol "Remember the Sycamores"
To be fair, IMG barely qualifies as a real school itself, it's a year-round sports program full of HS graduates taking a prep year before going to a top college program on the fastest possible track to the NFL. That's why BS could play them, nobody else wants to.
Players that are not eligible for high school football cannot play on the team. They have a separate team for players that are prepping after already finishing high-school.
Oh shit I thought IMG was highschoolers only 🤣
they are literally transfers from different power 5 high school programs.
@@derickclemons9453 Yeah, I must've gotten a wrong piece of info somewhere. The larger point stands though, IMG has gotten to the point of being so elite they're forced to play anyone willing to throw themselves at them.
@@nlpnt nah it’s all good, my friend went to IMG it’s literally just 5 star kids from Cali, Florida, Texas, Chicago, Etc etc.
ESPN was like: "There's an imposter among us."
Being from Pittsburgh and playing against Sto-Rox growing up I am glad to see they played the week prior to getting caught and our city got to be a part of a possibly the biggest high school sports scandal 😂
The craziest part of this is that they played high school-aged players and are still getting blown out. Doesn't make sense.
Nope. Not saying they’re ballers. I’m only drawing the point that they’re older players which would, hypothetically, mean they could have an advantage over younger players as well as size. IMG has been known to produce D1 athletes, their reputation speaks for itself.
@@collinwright6127 They are not D1 talent like IMG so the age really meant nothing, hell IMG kids are basically the size of college kids 💀
Makes sense if you understand that a bad 20 year old football player will get his ass kicked by a good 18 year old football player.
@@collinwright6127 7 guys from this years NFL draft went to high school at IMG. D1 guys is basically all they have there.
The sad thing is that I know one of the players on Bishop Sycamore. He transferred from MY SCHOOL all the way in Maryland to go to this “school.” It’s really sad because he must not have known any better.
Praying for the dude! The majority of these players are not the ones in the wrong, they're the ones who have been WRONGED the most
@@JDProdNFL yup… Travis Budd was gonna be a senior in high school this year and I was really disappointed when he left because he has a good humor and is very dedicated
@@ICF31 unfortunately he shoulda done his research he got duped
@@ICF31 how the fuck do you go to a school that doesn’t even fucking exist like how would that ever happen bro like don’t u have to sit out after u transfer too and like he would’ve needed to gone to the school to do his registration that’s honestly his fucking fault😭
@@ICF31 The fact that one of my CLASSMATES was involved with this... he was so nice towards me...
I swear the world always has so many surprises
They tried to recruit me on Twitter in the summer lmao😂😂
GOOD JOB NOT JOINING LMAO! You, and all these players deserve to play somewhere where they ACTUALLY have a chance to succeed!
Bro i swear they contacted me and my brother on Twitter last summer we both played juco in Texas
That man deserves 25 to life 😂
No, let him make another team and go against Alabama 😂
If there was some kind of pyramid scheme that required their players to sell cleaning products too, then this story would be perfect!
I dont watch ESPN for the same reason I don't drink out of the toilet.
because your girlfriend smacks you on the head with a newspaper when you do?
Hey, ESPN, wanna broadcast my pickup games?
Wait, if there are parents speaking out about their concerns of their kids playing for this team… why wouldn’t anyone be able to verify if the school is real or not? Why has no one asked the parents this? Lol
They’re speaking out now so they make people forget that they look stupid letting their kids be a part of any of this extremely shady, highly questionable, thinly veiled scam lol
I want a bishop sycamore Jersey 💯
They tried to recruit me and I’m 22, these people are nuts
IMG played them last year. This is all on ESPN.
I want a movie, tv series, and a mobile game for this whole situation lol....in the words of haha Davis "this is beyond me!"
Live in a suburb of Columbus… For a good amount of time. When I saw this game scheduled on tv before it began, scratched my head because I never heard of this school & I am active in OHSAA sports, both coaching & my daughter plays two varsity hs sports(currently). Also being a Catholic I was like “I have never heard of a Bishop Sycamore”. Yes, these bishop titled schools are actually named after Catholic Bishops. How in the world did this get past anyone? ESPN should terminate their contract with Paragon booking for these games. There are so many great schools that deserved this opportunity. I can tell you right now Pickerington Central would not have lost 58-0, shoot Licking Heights would not have lost 58-0. Everyone’s a scam artist these days.
They play LaSalle this week. I guaranteed it will not be a 58-0 blowout.
If you actually watched this game then you'll know that IMG took their foot off the pedal almost immediately and still dropped 58 .. easily could've been 90+
This man risked it all and got these kids an opportunity to market themselves televised, countrywide, against the best high school in the nation. Sadly none of his players could capitalize on that opportunity.
Bruh they don't even practice. There was no way the players would look good. I read some interviews and wowwwww
They are all washed cmon now
Im finna make my own track team full of "could of been state champ but my hamstring hurt" guys
Man we all know those guys 🤦🏼♂️😂
Uncle Rico 🤣
This is exactly how much time ESPN & all corporate media spends ensuring that their content is genuine. Multi billion dollar media corporations not having simple fact checking regardless of other production companies being involved shows how much ESPN cares about it’s viewers. This why most of us cut the cord years ago.
Lol. No it’s not. Most people cut the cord cause it got too expensive and the Internet gives us what we want in a more streamlined manor.
That not why I cut the cord
I’m glad this was finally brought to light, for some time now I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this organization, i was introduced to the head coach (Roy Johnson) by my youth baseball coach close to 6 months ago I was 14 at the time they were trying to recruit me and bribe me by saying they get d1 recruits and play all the big teams in the nation and also that there “school was the best of the best and you were guaranteed getting scholarships from all these big d1 schools” I was practicing with them for 3 months he told me the rest of the guys were seniors which was a lie they had ppl over 20 yrs of age then lied about us moving into a campus. They also made their players pay up to
$4,000 in total for their 4 years at that “school” when they told me that I knew something was fairly odd and they were very unorganized. And there really is no address or information for the school just fakes and people tryna be nasty honestly. I had unfortunately stepped out of that organization because of these reasons and I’m just 15 smh .
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@@tcsprynce5748 😂😂
@@tcsprynce5748 it’s not cap at all they had me on their media cover and everything lol I’m not that bored to just come up w stories bruh
@@kurttoo9115 what's your name. We can look it up and check out the story.
If ESPN outsourced the matchup to Paragon, then they are both culpable.
ESPN should have contacted the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) to validate the teams.
Well this "school" isn't a part of OHSAA so .....
@@toddtaylor6506 all high school with sports should be apart of OHSAA
@@williamgroves3134 Well it's not up to me ... lol. Key thing to remember is this is clearly a scam ... and a scammer's last desire would be to ever willingly join a regulated league. People are jumping on ESPN, Paragon and even IMG for this but why is the state of Ohio just allowing anyone to declare themselves a school ... these guys never attended any classes ... shouldn't a school have to file a curriculum with a state to be considered a school?
This is so legendary man awww man lmaoooo. How did ESPN mess up this bad ? Why isn't this national headlines ? What if someone got seriously injured playing for BS? Lmao
Where the hell are the parents? A con artist running a phony sports team is one thing, but a school that doesn't exist? I am trying to understand how someone is so disconnected from their kids that they don't know it or so certain that colleges will recruit their kids, that they go along.
There is a bigger problem here.
Nearly all, if not all the players on Bishop Sycamore were over 18, so technically adults. There probably wasn't much they could have done here.
@@chad3232132 That would explain it.
Congrats on 100k well deserved
In this day an age anyone can be anything….. Men can be Women, Women can be Men.. and grown men can be high schoolers.
Just wait until the grown men decide they are 17 at heart and using the same locker rooms as your (real) 16 year old daughter (because you know, they also identify as a girl). May still sound a bit fetched in 2021... let's reevaluate in 2030.
@@jeremywj yeah not something I’m looking forward to if I’m being 100% honest.
They have the perfect intials.
B.S. 😂😂😂
What’s sad is img knew this school is not real n still accepted to play them
They wanted those stats!
What’s even worse is these 20+ year old dudes are getting their asses kicked by actual high schoolers
This coach belongs in the Trolling Hall of Fame.
just shows you that ESPN is the litter-box of sports broadcasting and journalism
Congrats on the 100K 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
You still didn’t answer the question as to how they made it onto ESPN?
Seriously… can I order a BISHOP SYCAMORE jersey? I wanna rock that 💩
More than one year of having "one of the toughest schedules in the country." They wouldn't be allowed to be on the field with these teams if they weren't quite good. My local small high school went to the MA state championship and would be laughed off the field vs IMG.
I can't wait for the documentary. Wildest finesse ever lol
The name says it all 😂 in the abbreviation “BS HighSchool”😂😂😂😂
Sto-Rox is in Southwest Pennsylvania, so they would've left there Friday night to play a game in the Tampa Bay area Sunday.
I can absolutely see both documentaries and movies being made about this. It is hilarious, and will likely come with a huge payday for the teams founders after getting out of prison. Who does not want to know how they pulled off such a ridiculous skam?
I'm 60 and have never played football. Just made wide receiver on the team. DREAMS!
Ayo the magic school bus took me out 😂🤣
Congrats on 100k
They're is a Sycamore high school near Cincinnati, but no Bishop Sycamore. Recon Sycamore HS will have to say "No, that wasn't us" for quite some time.
good shit boys yall came a long way
That magic school bus part had me dying😂
100k LETS GOOOO
Someone has to make this a movie
That thumbnail funny as hell.
they look like the rival team in every disney football movie.
Reminds me of the movie Accepted. Only this school has an "athletic department".
They gotta make this a movie bruh LOL
Sto rox is a high school in Pittsburgh. I believe their team name is the vikings. Just wanted to say their name isn't the "the sto rox" it's for stowe and McKees rocks area kids. I'm from McKees Rocks originally I didn't attend the school though.
Man these players on Bishop Sycamore waltzing around with so much swag to be some old bums. This is a semi pro team
I was thinking the same thing
Semi pro teams dont lose 58-0 lmao
@@yaahlabanyamyan144 yes they would. Semi pro talent is usually less than your average high school football team. Nobody gets paid
bruh they're playing offense and defense on back to back days no way they're gonna be playing well lol
They look like pawns out there check mate 🤣 🤣 🤣
The biggest finesse in sports in all of 2021
I saw in another video saying “It’s funny how Bishop Sycamore’s initials is B.S”
I found it funny and relevant.
Fabolous probably already has a Bishop Sycamore jersey
This will be a movie one day
You already know they're gonna make a south park episode about this.
It’s more like just trying to troll ESPN then to put kids health at risk
This is the wildest thing to ever happen lol if they make a movie about it I’ll definitely be watch it lol
Bruh I was at the field in the clip in 3:11😂 it’s Woodland Hills, PA… Rob Gronkowskis old high school😂
Bishop Sycamore seems to be alot like the University I attended. I have a feeling there's alot of this that happens because education sounds noble and people don't ask enough questions. Valid questions are the biggest enemy of shady people because the truth gets exposed, it just doesn't happen enough.
U made your case, good job, thanx
If “Hittin a lick” was a football team 😂😂😂
ESPN f’ed up bad
I live in Columbus (where they suppose to b from) n ain’t never heard of no got damn bishop sycamore till a couple days ago🤣 they really finessed everyone🤣
I feel like they made this team just to say I played vs *insert NFL Superstar* in high school.
Bro, that’s not Sto Rox. That’s Woodland Hills High School you’re showing. The Wolverena. I live right down the street. That stadium used to be smacking on a Friday night!
The image of him drinking water should be a meme, it's freaking hilarious. The kids are out here getting thoroughly cooked by IMG and they can't even get any water cuz you're drinking all of it😂
This is real sports journalism