Creative minds, social media, and a little help from Photoshop have forever changed college recruiting.
The latest example of that is Clemson and what they sent to Hun School (NJ) defensive line recruit Fred Hansard, who will graduate in 2017. The staged tweet features popular ESPN personalities Sam Ponder and Kirk Herbstreit, along with the SportsCenter Twitter account showing him some love.
Just for fun, Clemson also threw in some attention from Carrie Underwood on the screen shot as well.
This is a really smart move by the people in Clemson's recruiting office. Hansard (and most recruits in general) tweets / retweets various things a few times a day, so this is obviously a strategy that will carry some weight, and including Ponder, Herbie, and Carrie Underwood is a nice touch.