Man allegedly behind college football recruit hoax speaks

"Unique Brissett II" spent the past year pretending to be a college football recruit with offers from schools like Michigan, Michigan State, Miami and Maryland. His story officially fell apart this week.

Brissett used highlight videos from other prospects, tweeted visit photos that he lifted from other users and claimed to attend a junior college that closed in September.

Despite deleting his social media accounts when his story deteriorated, the person behind the Brissett account claimed he's not upset. He thought the catfishing scam was hilarious.

The New York Post spoke with Brissett, who claimed to be using his real name, and well, he was still laughing about the hoax. Via the Post:

"It was easy. I don't think it was hard at all," said Brissett, who said he would've simply stopped after a while if no one was giving him the attention - either for being a real hotshot prospect or for being a fake hotshot prospect.

"I was laughing. I was too hype," Brissett said about the moment his story fell apart.

The only way his life has changed is a phone that won't stop buzzing. He briefly pulled the wool over everyone's eyes, and has he learned anything from this whole charade?

"Not really."

Unique Brissett made his Recruitment up. He didn't have offers from these programs & lied about it all. He deleted… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…-
NCAAF Nation (@NCAAFNation247) May 23, 2017

In all, Brissett's now-deleted account garnered just over 1,300 followers and became a national college football story. He got the attention he wanted out of the scam, apparently.

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