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The College Football Recruiting Matrix: Welcome to the Desert of the Real

In 2008 Kevin Hart, a 6-foot-4, 315 pound, prep football player in Nevada, had the dream that every decent high school football player in America dreams, of becoming a Division I player. After his junior season at Fernley High School, he received recruiting letters from Washington, Oregon and Nevada and even nicknamed himself "D-1." But because he had a 1.8 grade point average and inexplicably thought it of no use to take the SAT, those schools stopped recruiting him. Too humiliated to let anyone know, he assured his coaches and classmates that he was still a national recruit and continued his lie throughout his senior season of high school.