Michigan State football used as part of fake recruitment process

Michigan State was supposedly in good shape to land a JUCO wide receiver. That was until that player’s recruitment was revealed as a sham.

Unique Brissett II was supposedly a JUCO wide receiver looking to land a spot with a power five conference team. Michigan State was supposedly one of teams on his list. Brissett was supposedly on campus for a visit with the Spartans yesterday. Supposedly.

It looked like just another normal recruiting story until Land of 10’s Luke Srodulski noticed something odd about the photos posted to Brissett’s Twitter account during his supposed visit. Srodulski tweeted a screenshot of Brissett’s visit tweet next to a tweet sent by Cody Carone during his visit in February.

Go ahead and compare for yourself:

Uh, that’s not good.

In the hours after Srodulski’s tweet, Brissett has deleted his social media accounts and media outlets have begun deleting or archiving articles written about Brissett’s recruitment.

247sports recruiting analyst Andrew Irvin posted on the Miami message board that the player in youtube videos supposedly of Brisset are actually of another player.

Brissett’s recruitment by Michigan State and other Power Five schools is clearly fake, and it may be that Brissett himself is fake.

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It’s a bizarre story but it shouldn’t reflect poorly on Michigan State. It appears they were just named as one of many schools by a desperate recruit hoping to drum up real interest or an internet prankster who saw an opportunity to make some waves by duping the media into writing about a fake recruit.