Give the kid a break
Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008 @ 7:03 pm
I have no idea how Kevin Hart thought his lie wouldn’t blow up.
For you sports fans who haven’t been following sports news this week, Hart, a 6-foot-5, 290-pound guard out of Fernley High School, held a big to-do of a press conference last week where he committed to play Division-I football with a cliche hat choice of Cal over Oregon.
The problem is that neither Cal or Oregon ever recruited him. At all.
And from what I’m told, schools don’t hand out many pity scholarships these days, so Hart’s lie was destined to be exposed in quick fashion.
Hart has since admitted to making the whole thing up, duping his classmates, town, and local media in the process.
Now the story is buzzing all over America. Sports Illustrated and The New York Times put it on net. On Friday, Hart’s mug was on ESPN.com’s front page with video links to discussion of Hart from mega-popular television shows Pardon the Interruption and Around the Horn.
Needless to say, Hart’s new stigma is going to be “that kid who lied about playing football in college.” And that’s unfortunate.
I don’t mean to excuse Hart’s lie, he should be held accountable and punished for his actions - that’s life. In the grand scheme of things, though, this lie is pretty meaningless in the long run.
Yet this kid has been vilified in the media and by message board posters, and he’ll have tough time every finding a place to play college football.
Poke fun if you must, but Hart is 17 years old and he doesn’t deserve to have his future ruined by one mistake.
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