The news comment I am talking about is the controversy surrounding Bishop Sycamore. Bishop Sycamore is a high school that player IMG Academy, one of the nations top high school programs. The game was aired on ESPN. Sycamore claimed that they had many top college prospects, but was soon found out to be a hoax. The high school got beat bad by IMG Academy, which raised questions about them. It was later discovered that Bishop Sycamore is not a real high school. They do not have any classes, or any students. Head Coach Roy Johnson had lied about the school.
The article talks about how Roy Johnson was fired after the game. This is a story because the school was not even real. This raises a question. How was the coach fired if the school was not real? The school has a director as well. This school was proven not to be real after many investigated it after the game.
This article is really interesting because it questions whether there is any fact to it. The talk on Twitter is about firing someone from a fake job. Bishop Sycamore had a lot of junior college dropouts playing instead of high schoolers. They also had zero prospects. Roy Johnson also had an active warrant out for his arrest. The “school” had played two games in three days which puts players health in question. Nothing about this school adds up which is why it is one of the most talked about stories in sports. The story appeals to both students-athletes and parents of student-athletes everywhere. It also raises the question of how did ESPN and Geico get catfished with the technology that they are provided today. The lead is affective because no one knows how this can be true. That is enough to invest the audience. The article works because is summarizes the events and the stories that Bishop Sycamore has been involved in in the last few days.