THE TRUTH Behind Bishop Sycamore & How ESPN Got DUPED!!!

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Last Sunday ESPN broadcasted the final game of the GEICO ESPN High School kickoff between IMG Academy vs Bishop Sycamore. The final score ended with IMG Academy easily winning to the tune of 58-0 and this led to concerns about the other team. After more research it was revealed that Bishop Sycamore was not a high school team and in fact were made up of a mix of JUCO and high school graduate players.
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[@whazzuphere]

Personally, I laughed my ass off at this! It is hilarious that this happened to the self proclaimed "World Wide Leader In Sports". They got totally scammed!

[@jesmichel]

The poor kid that was 15 lost his entire Junior year and had to get his credits fast so he could even play his senior year at a real high school! No parental supervision! He said that there were lots of other incidences that he didn’t want to talk about! I hope he gets paid lots of money and exposes all the stuff we want to know!!

[@izaiahjae]

Lol!!! The coach was fired from a team that doesn’t exist 😂😂😂😂

[@ClasherSports]

basically. that reminds me of an episode of seinfeld when Kramer went to work for a company that he wasnt on payroll for and got fired lol

[@dragonsinygo4387]

I played D2 college ball with their D coordinator. He got moved up to head coach 🤣

[@Snakeyes11123]

Open KZbin. KZbin: wanna see another video on Bishop Sycamore? Me: Absolutely!

[@jamesweikel2594]

😂 when you lie on an application and get the job

[@Mikey12347]

Bro when the commentator knew something was up I knew it was fishy

[@zjwardlow]

I knew you was going to make this video been waiting all day to get the real scoop

[@dirtybirds6205]

Man this was some deplorable conditions these kids lived in

[@cbn4000]

I still don't understand what is in it for the players? They are out of high school, sleeping on floors, hotel to hotel, getting beat badly by HS teams. Are they getting paid? If not what is in it for them? Being beat by HS teams when you are 19 or 20 isn't exactly going to get you recognized by scouts. None of this makes any sense.

[@dr12evil]

I think they wanted to be found out and hope a celebrity sympathize with their story and fund them

[@BasketballBuddies]

Noooo they got the kids stealing and sleeping on the floor😭

[@adriennel578]

Thanks for a clear and concise explanation! Wild story

[@PHill-id1dc]

There's another video. They played them last year too 😂

[@ClasherSports]

I know.. IMG knew.. as soon Bishop asked IMG to foot their travel bill and expenses lolll

[@Una2Cold]

@@ClasherSports IMG probably just wanted the free promotion and beat down to bolster their team and players confidence and morale. I’m sure they have some blame in this as well

[@oldschool6847]

@@Una2Cold If I could like this 10 times, I would!

[@jonsnow-targaryen2071]

Not only espn should share blame. Why is IMG the biggest football school in the country agree to play against this sham?!

[@oldschool6847]

After reading some of the comments, it sounds like they played this team last year? If that is true, they should've know they weren't good enough to be on TV, let alone ESPN. It sounds to me as if they are complicit in this whole fiasco.

[@jonsnow-targaryen2071]

@@oldschool6847 yeah man IMG is SKETCHY for this

[@ONGEES]

I haven’t watched ESPN in a few days. Are they talking about this on their channel?

[@ClasherSports]

Prolly not cause it makes them seem retarded for not verifying

[@iandhr1]

4:04 "This is when the story takes a weird twist" It wasn't weird already?

[@ronaldo101000]

Im confused it says IMG ON the team in white. They where the fake team? If the fake is in black why did the team in white win.

[@2Glock30s]

This is no doubt the sports story of the year, lol!

[@FearIVess]

Yo wtf defense they runnin … 😂😂

[@kwado5786]

LOL FINESSE OF THE YEAR!!!!! SALUTE TO THESE GROWN ASS MEN! "THEY HAD TO STEAL AT WALMART & KROGER"

[@barrybach3685]

I’m sorry, but this is all on ESPN for not doing their homework. They talked about the lack of being able to verify their players in recruiting databases, but they also could’ve verified if it was a real school by checking state and regional accreditation databases. I worked in student records for 4 years and it’s not all that difficult a process. They could’ve easily discovered that this school doesn’t even exist with some simple research.

[@row7820]

Research???? Woah buddy real journalism has not been a thing for awhile 😅

[@Jerry8yomomma]

ESPN isnt the ones who put the games together they just broadcast them Paragon Marketing Group is who does the research on teams and put together the big national televised games they present them to ESPN an they board cast them the blame shouldn't be on ESPN

[@naturalpro2003]

@@Jerry8yomomma E.S.P.N. is a huge billion dollar conglomerate. They can do their own vetting. They are not without blame

[@Splaccemttv]

It's as simple as a Google search in this case 🤦

[@austenbertrand1818]

Honestly, I mean there’s no way there could be D1 prospects that are practically nonexistent/invisible online

[@icannotbelievethisnigga]

Can’t wait for the Netflix doc in 2 years

[@ClasherSports]

what comes first.. ESPN 30 for 30 or the Netflix special? 😂

[@chrishandsome4267]

Good job bro you’re only the 80th person to say this

[@JavierRamirez-lx4ev]

😂 I hope they do.

[@hulkwarrior]

I hope it has a bunch of people who weren't there and just comment on what everyone else already knows, like most 'documentaries' these days.

[@stapes7344]

@@chrishandsome4267 To be fair the more people say it the more likely it will happen

[@natehoy6088]

I'm so glad I got to witness history live. This will probably never happen again

[@paidvaughn]

Right 🤣🤣

[@beezmemez9623]

Update: it did

[@musiccityguy2314]

That moment you realize a made up high school get to be on ESPN more than the Jacksonville Jaguars.

[@RonJP-pm7jp]

Lol dang.

[@tomford3437]

They said I was too old to play football…. 😔Until I enrolled at Bishop Sycamore 😂 Tom Ford 30 for 30

[@ClasherSports]

This video was kind of funny researching. No road white jerseys. Teammates sharing helmets midgame.

[@radricdavis8508]

My mailman was limping and wearing a knee brace today and I asked him what happened and he said he played left guard for Bishop Sycamore

[@pittland44]

Reminds me of the opening of "The Waterboy."

[@shotwing8499]

This is the longest yard in real life except they didn’t win

[@redeemed_psf3948]

Ok for real tho who would agree to sleep on the floor of a hotel room and never practice 😂

[@Una2Cold]

Wait why the teams initials are B.S. 😂😂😂 they shoulda knew it was 🐠y off rip

[@jesmichel]

How can you be fired from a non existent position? 🤣

[@Carlito1980]

Its awesome seeing ESPN made to look like a joke

[@RB-rv3yc]

because they are a joke

[@pocobull]

They really don't need the help, they do a good enough job of it themselves.

[@mikezzgolfin]

They do it SOOOOOO well.... and SOOOOO often...!

[@paidvaughn]

So who fired the coach 🤣🤣

[@30sg30]

Exactly 😂

[@novadking2319]

I need explanations!😂😂😂😂

[@dragonsinygo4387]

Andre Peterson. He manages the team

[@cooldudecs]

The assistant coach did 😂

[@joseayala8506]

Ok but who fired the HC if the school doesn’t exist??? Lol

[@ClasherSports]

that's a good effin question haha I didnt really put much thought into the news when i first heard it..... man the more you peel layers of this story, the more it stinks! lol

[@shannonballspen1s482]

The AD at that

[@outside4252]

The offensive and defensive line coach who is also the AD or something like that. This is wiiiiiilllldddd

[@jugaloking69dope58]

pretty sure he ran cause of the warrant 😜

[@delaneyryan6618]

was looking for this comment

[@mikepalmer1971]

I keep saying sports have lost all credibility.. this just reinforces my opinion.

[@Replacementacc]

Funny thing, my current hc was the coach of img. I'm just saying I know for a fact that we could beat bishop.

[@justsomemincedgarlic]

Bro when i played high school football, my senior year we barely won 3 games and we could have beat bishop sycamore haha i have literally never seen a worse o-line in my life.

[@Kolegate]

Just when you think you've seen it all and you really haven't!

[@ThomasTHEONEANDONLY]

The mystery behind this “school” is like North Korea, but the only difference is that the latter is real.

[@bighof2581]

Legit looks like a random trash semi pro team that scammed their way in lmao

[@andrewlasekan4453]

Ive lived in Columbus oh most of life and I was surprised when I first saw that name because I can confirm their is no school with that name in this city. Crazy how far this scam actually went and man does ESPN looks stupid.

[@deerobinson7320]

Im from Columbus i never heard of them. They making us look bad we have some ballers

[@jameswaldrope1119]

This tells you all about ESPN this is how low they have gone

[@wwzsdfy]

“10 coaches, 1 for each position” I thought there were 11 players? Not sure if there’s 10 positions but I’m sure there’s more than 10. What??

[@zatoichi3134]

kickers don't get counted these days ? lol

[@timmyp34]

Let's check the ACT /SAT scores in the math category?

[@therealblacksheep330]

From wiki They revealed that Johnson recruited the students with the prospect of "practicing at Ohio State's facilities". In reality, they held practice outside of an apartment complex that housed students at Ohio State. The team also did not have athletic trainers, which resulted in the athletes playing injured. The apartments housing the students frequently evicted them after Johnson failed to pay rent. Many players already graduated from high school and there "were four or five kids that were 20, 21, [and] had children of their own".[5] A number of players had legal issues; at one point so many players had active arrest warrants that the team could not fly to away games. One player actually joined the team immediately after being released from jail. The team also struggled with camaraderie; a former player claimed there were at least five fights at every practice.

[@billblaski9523]

Lmao "Bischop Sycamore told us they have a number of D1 prospects, but we couldn't verify that with all our recruiting databases" How was that not the first red flag!?

[@NOCOFLEXX]

They are kids, 2 games in e days is nothing, seems like some people have never suited up..for any team....Ever....🤷🏾‍♂️

[@selfishstockton6123]

I get all that and it’s hilarious but doesn’t IMG have have older players too?

[@marchingduck7881]

I’m confused how this happened

[@ItzDudekillerYo]

They just lied about having amazing players when the 'high school' were mostly 18-21 year olds

[@keekee4271]

@@ItzDudekillerYo ya but how did they get on schedules to play real highschools?

[@shomari17]

They were stealing from Walmart and Krogers 😭😭

[@novadking2319]

I am 36 and lived in Columbus my whole life aint no doggone Bishop Sycamore even heard of in my city. I looked up the address they gave to it and its to Franklin University's library from what Im gathering. This makes no entire sense to me how they managed to end up on TV as a high school team.

[@deerobinson7320]

Im from Columbus too and they trying to make us look bad

[@oldschool6847]

@@deerobinson7320 I don't think ESPN or the MSM is trying to make Columbus, OH look bad, it just so happens that's where the Bishop Sycamore team is from. It sounds like IMG Academy is complicit in this, since they played them last year and should have known they weren't necessarily legit.

[@XiaoFury]

I hope IMG isn't collecting stats from a school that doesn't exist....

[@juliuscaesart]

This is the funniest thing I’ve heard all year

[@ademirsegura6307]

The Fyre Festival of Schools

[@cjl258]

This is a remake of a movie.. this is 2021 The Longest yard... freshman season

[@spencer5438]

Can't wait for the 30/30, 60 minutes, and Untold documentaries.

[@sirnickels9979]

Bishop Sycamore needs to be added to Madden

[@Chris-bc3zm]

IM NOT MAD AT BISHOP SYCAMORE IM MAD THAT THEY GOT ON ESPN BUT THEY CANT PUT THE DAMN MATER DEI VS DUNCANVILLE GAME !!! Somebody needs to get fired

[@everythinggaming290]

6:48 bro looks like Danté Exam #0😂😂

[@brentwaungordon9872]

Who else seen the cam meme

[@Carlito1980]

Hahaha i just saw. I was dead🤣

[@ClasherSports]

man they cam so wrong lol

[@callmelyn73]

Omg. That is ridiculous. How did it get so far?

[@ClasherSports]

crazy that if they never played last Sunday, this charade would've kept flying under the radar!

[@kingmaverick632]

How tf did no one question this sketchy looking team w that weird logo and no record of them existing ever lmao. ESPN is a joke

[@red5llaw]

It was a Bullshit Pick Up team. Bring your own gear, jersey, helmet, sleeping bag, food and don't Even Consider a High School Graduation Certificate!

[@coreywashington9982]

How a team full of grown men get whooped by kids 🤣🤣 40+ to 0💀💀

[@Augfordpdoggie]

They didnt practice

[@rooh5825]

To be honest, it's rather impressive that they even did this. To even put a team on the field at all is difficult, but with no actual backing? I get they were fraudulent, but it is impressive in a "catch me if you can" sort of way.

[@jugaloking69dope58]

good old America lol should anyone be shocked by this?

[@topher1004]

But the players though. Great at 20 and that's it? No NFL or college. I don't get it.

[@jerdeashley3021]

The five estimate covalently plan because michael proximately approve except a peaceful march. troubled, bouncy hurricane

[@t.r2603]

IMG Academy: "oh my god! We're playing against adults?! Call an ambulance! (Opens a can of whoopass) But not for ME!

[@dandaniel439]

Background music, echo in the mike, voice hard to understand. You guys need to work on your studio production. (and loose the BG music pls)

[@lemondishonor7736]

This is some sad ish. We will be hearing a lot more during the coming weeks. This is far from over.

[@tomcooper6108]

Roy Johnson scammed everyone!!! Funny stuff.

[@Jolt7800]

Would be even funnier if it was not so sad. Be on the lookout for this scam team to rename themselves Deacon Cedar and make a comeback next year.

[@detective___mcnulty]

Double clicking through your sponsor information.

[@thelifeofshian]

Lmaoooo this the funniest thing happened all year

[@iandhr1]

How did Ohio education authorities allow this school to exist?

[@EsaiGivens]

we are a real team

[@w4ch4rdt92]

Ok buddy

[@johnfarrelly4753]

The Governor of Ohio has gotten involved.

[@BeezyStreetz]

Bruh what’s SO FUNNY… THEY BEEN playing like how TF did y’all not see this school name just floating around curious bruh 🤣 I’ve NEVER heard a mf graduate or put them on

[@rogopdp7c]

ESPN is a Mickey Mouse network.

[@toastedbrick1288]

Video is way too short to throw an ad that long in it

[@colemanforoklahoma4818]

This has 30 for 30 written all over it!

[@djx904]

The next Last Chance U 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@Taniere]

Where are the parents?

[@jugaloking69dope58]

high on something and payed off outside of most players being out of school and got nowhere else to go

[@XiaoFury]

ESPN couldn't verify what Sycamore sold them, but still allowed them air time? There's more to this scam...

[@NFL_Prod]

first

[@PatRKiloCharlie]

College of Faith of HS

[@OrcDragon65]

I don't mean any offense, but you didn't explain how they duped ESPN, who did what to actually Get on national TV and how they evaded any screening process. This was an informative video about the "school" but I was mostly interested in hearing how these con artists got that far, and it wasn't even touched on. You talked about the broadcast and then a student coming forward with an expose tell all, but nothing about how they got the attention of ESPN, landed this deal to play and how no one got wind of what was going on until the commentators brought it up. I'm not calling your video click bait but you only addressed the first half of the Title.

[@elliteMonkeygaming]

Me and my friends were watching this cause there was nothing on but this was funny asf I feel ESPN knew because for you to say “number 54 we don’t have a name should send some red flags” especially when they were trading helmets no website and other suspicious things my brother pointed out that a dude was switching out helmets but I dissmissed it cause I didn’t really know I thought it was normal but yeah this was is crazy hopefully we get a documentary or Netflix soon 🤷‍♂️

[@AJ-gn1qu]

just shows how horrible ESPN is

[@MrRyman91]

It's more irresponsible than anything they could have gotten these kids really messed up and I'd imagine these kids are like sweet football game let's have some fun oh wait these kids are good. GOOD they're pretty much made the time in a lab your on a field of all D1 prospects almost yah have fun

[@llmyth007]

well they do have a pretty cool fucking logo!

[@warriorj8658]

I think this is hilarious

[@rem145]

There is a Sycamore high school north of Cincinnati. I seriously wouldn’t think much of it unless I did research

[@jackandlaneysdad]

Bob Bowlsby knew

[@spencepatrick3115]

IMG cold 😂😂

[@dandockery9734]

ESPN should fire everyone involved and stop covering high school sports

[@shomari17]

😭😂

[@MrAmadeus97]

Fired from where!?

[@ClasherSports]

fired from Bishop Sycamore.. the coach was fired.. i saw a tweet from Bleacher Report

[@vonp.6838]

Commentators: Bishop Sycamore, Home Of The ?

[@pariswhite377]

Home of the super seniors

[@Ghost21666]

just giv me the documentary on netflix...but i knew something was off about this game wen i was watching it

[@marcusgronquist9960]

if they were college players, they were totally useless

[@oldschool6847]

In the clips that were shown in this video, they looked like they were just taking up space.

[@brandonjohnson4343]

The video was cool until the last part. Definitely a little Karen in the guy talking lol i get tho. Very weird for them to play guys way older & yet a lone with fake names. But at the end of the day I don’t think they want to start problems with anyone , they wanted to play football this bad they lied . Lol it’s the most weirdest football situation I’ve ever seen

[@jontewilkes9826]

If you gonna have illegal players on a team at lease be good 58 - 0. That coach really knows how to scam he is better then the Vehicle Warranty ppl that call my phone twice a week.