A Fake ‘NCAA Football 14’ Player Got An Angry DM From NIU’s Real Coach After Claiming He’d Received An Offer From The School

Video games become more and more realistic with every passing year and you have to think the line between fantasy and reality will become even blurrier with the advent of the next generation of consoles.

However, it seems like a lot of the companies that produce the titles that allow people who will never have a shot to become a star athlete get a taste of that life haven’t gotten the memo, as many studios tend to spend so much time working on barely noticeable graphic improvements and hyping up their perpetually “revolutionary” new physics engines that they forget to include features people actually want.

MLB: The Show seems to be one of the least derided sports franchises out there but it still hasn’t come close to measuring up to MVP Baseball 2005. Sadly, the only way to play that iconic game is if you have the original disc and an ancient console to play it on.

You’ll also run into the same issue if you want to play any of the Tiger Woods PGA Tour games that were made before EA tapped Rory McIlroy to be its new cover athlete in 2015 and gave golf fans an experience that was so atrocious they haven’t even attempted to try again since.

There’s nothing to bar them from doing so, but the same can’t be said about the beloved NCAA Football franchise that suddenly disappeared from our lives courtesy of the lawsuit Ed O’Bannon used to basically Thanos Snap college sports titles out of existence.

Thankfully, there are still ways to get your hands on those games (assuming you’re willing to pay more than you would’ve if you’d bought them when they came out) and there are still plenty of people who are lucky enough to be able to experience the thrills of courting virtual recruits and leading UAB to the only national championship they’ll ever win.

NCAA Football 14 also boasted a career mode in the form of the “Road to Glory” feature that let you start as a high school player and finish as a college football legend and one person recently decided to document their journey by creating a Twitter account for Patrick “Speedy” Flowers, a quarterback hailing from Joplin, Missouri.

Flowers started to make a name for himself earlier this week and the offers began to roll in as he excitedly informed his followers he’d been given the opportunity to play for the likes of Notre Dame, Ohio State, and Northern Illinois.

At some point, that last virtual offer came to the attention of very real NIU coach Thomas Hammock, who slid into Patrick’s DMs to inform him that he had not, in fact, decided to give him a scholarship before blocking the heartbroken prospect.

However, Hammock eventually realized he’d gotten goofed and seemed to take it in stride.

I wish Speedy the best of luck wherever he ends up deciding to take his game to the next level and can only hope he’ll find the Huskies on the schedule at some point during his time there.