Bishop Sycamore High School in Ohio created a fake school website and fooled ESPN into airing one of their games against the IMG Academy. The school claimed that it had several Division I athletes on its roster.
Before it was shut down in 2018, COF Academy was known as Bishop Sycamore Academy. It was the site of Aaron Boyd’s first ever recruitment.
“Everybody that knows me already knows this,” Boyd told Complex. “It’s just the fact now it’s on a greater scale, I have to say something.”
As a former player, Boyd has plenty to say about the program he helped expose. From the recruiting to the living conditions, he is not afraid to expose it all.
To his knowledge, Boyd says there has been no evidence of any sex-offenders, as some have claimed.
“It’s bigger now because now you have a school from Florida putting this on ESPN for their own benefit and that is why it is bigger,” Boyd said. “This stuff has been going on for a really long time and people just don’t pay attention to these HS sports programs.
This interview by Complex.)
So what years did you play there?
I played there my junior year of high school. I played there 2018-19 season. I was 15 going on 16.
How’d you find out about them?
Before they were Bishop Sycamore, they were COF Academy. They had these coaches come from COF. I was at an Adidas All-American camp and they came and recruited me.
But why did you go there? What appealed to you about that school?
At first, they had like brochures and a plan. N*gga, they sent me books with like shit on how the school was supposed to look. Blueprints and everything. They told us we was gonna be on Netflix, they recruited us telling us we were gonna be on a show. They told us we’re gonna be the IMG of the Midwest. They lied to me and my mama.
Was this a relocation for you?
Yeah, I had to move out of my city.
So when you got there, what was the campus like? Did they even have a building at the time?
There was no building. Aight, listen to this. This is the crazy shit, this what you wanna hear. I first moved out there, we were staying in a hotel in Delaware [Ohio]. We were staying there for like five months.
Five months?
Five months. Didn’t have no housing. All the players came to find out, we never paid the hotel. [The school was] writing them bounced checks. The head coach of Bishop Sycamore wasn’t the head coach. He was like an athletic director. He was the n*gga that was behind all of it. He was writing bounced checks for everything. For everything. We never paid for anything.
I saw that there allegedly was an arrest warrant for fraud charges, so that’s accurate to you?
Yeah, that’s accurate. I didn’t know what the warrant was for but if it’s for writing bounced checks that’s accurate. This man scammed a whole church. We had funding from a church, that’s how we were doing everything from the beginning.
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