Tyler McLaurin announced his scholarship offers on Twitter like just about every other high school football player in the country fortunate enough to receive the opportunities to play at the next level. But McLaurin, a rising senior linebacker at Bolingbrook (Ill.) High School, found a way to add an additional twist.
When Virginia offered in February, McLaurin referred to the Cavaliers as the team from the “opulent” University of Virginia. Texas Tech was the “eminent” Texas Tech University. These descriptions continued right up until he named a “contemporaneous” top five and then committed to the “inimitable” University of Michigan.