Recruit Committed To Florida After Being Catfished on Twitter

Houshun Gaines, a three-star defensive end from North Carolina, committed to Florida last Friday. He later found out the Florida assistant contacting him for weeks over social media was someone catfishing him.

"“When I talked to a coach, they told me they hadn’t spoke to Gaines in several weeks,” Mosley said. “I think he was talking to someone he thought was a coach. I guess he said (on Friday) that he had talked to a coach the night before, but they said he hadn’t talked to anybody on the coaching staff.”"

Gaines is not in such a bad spot, though. He’s still on Florida’s radar and, per 247 Sports, he has offers from Miami and Virginia Tech among others.

[HT Business Insider]