Wisconsin wide receivers coach Jordan Reid recently visited three-star college football recruit Tayshon Bardo at his home in Indiana. The latter put the former on blast on TikTok after he gave him a whooping on Playstation.
It was the perfect encapsulation of the modern era of recruiting.
Bardo, the second-ranked player in the Hoosier State, is a top-100 prospect at his position in the college football recruiting Class of 2026. He has 13 scholarship offers from Michigan State, Cincinnati, Indiana, Ball State, Miami (Oh.) and Vanderbilt, among others.
Among those others is Wisconsin. The Badgers would love to get the 6-foot-0, 185-pound pass-catcher to Madison in two years.
First-year wide receivers coach Jordan Reid was hired by head coach Luke Fickell earlier this month and paid a visit to Bardo’s home in Mishawaka, Indiana over the weekend. He got embarrassed while there.
Reid picked up the sticks to play Bardo in a game of College Football 25. The Wisconsin coach played as Wisconsin and lost 40-14 to Arizona. Not only did he lose, Bardo posted the lopsided result to TikTok in an embarrassing video that has since gone viral. The 17-year-old laughed right in Reid’s face for the whole world to see.
To be fair, Reid was a good sport about the whole thing. And who really cares if a high school kid wins a video game.
Still, it was a great look at the current state of recruiting in college football. A three-star wide receiver forced his potential future position coach to play against him on Playstation, absolutely dominated his much older opponent, and immediately proceeded to clown him on social media.
This is not the first time that a coach has played video games against a recruit. For him to turn right around and post the result on TikTok is a new twist to the entire process.