Living in the lap of luxury can be as straightforward as netting a premier NFL draft prospect the instant he steps onto campus.
Some college-aged women are ditching lectures to learn how to reel in potential football and basketball stars, and the scheme has just come to light.
An online debate erupted after purported messages surfaced detailing what some described as a white college student’s plan to attract and retain wealthy athletes.
Screenshots from an alleged text thread involving a student identified as “Halyn M,” her roommate Lexi, and Lexi’s sister quickly circulated after first being shared by TheBishGossip.
The jaw-dropping messages set the internet ablaze. Sharp-eyed viewers began sleuthing, wondering if the screenshots were genuine and if some replies sounded overly calculated. Yet readers have weighed in after reviewing the exchanges.
Halyn’s friend was reportedly hoping to lock down a tall, dark football player in the same vein as her sister.
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Fulfilling that urge is simple enough, but “You have to play your cards right!” Rule No. 1 serves as the bedrock for drawing an athlete with a pick-me mindset: “He’s the prize. Remember he can change your life; you can’t change his.”
Social media influencer Brittany Renner delivered the same message to Jackson State University football players in 2021. Renner was invited by then-head coach Deion Sanders to address the young men about the trap.
She told them, “Naturally, if you play a sport, that’s an incentive to talk to you. … Everybody wants something. Even if we have our own thing going on, it’s like me being with you is good because you boost my stock. I boost your stock. It’s that simple.”
One person online replied, “And when we tell Black men this: you are just a game and a come up to them, they don’t wanna hear none of that,” echoing one perspective in the comments. Another asked, “What in the world?”
The blunt tutorial centers on accumulating wealth at any cost, and Black women have taken notice. One commenter wrote, “This is not our business. If the men keep falling for it, that’s on them and that’s why I never feel bad when things go south for them.”
Lexi’s older sister also remarked, “Dealing with cheating, DON’T LOOK FOR IT… if it’s just a fling, LET IT GO!” She added, “He’s the prize, remember he can change your life, you can’t change his,” a sentiment once echoed by Simone Biles’ husband, NFL star Jonathan Owens.
She contends that Black athletes’ attraction to Black women can be swayed by stirring up “that Sha’nana in her by poking at her & letting him see it! He’ll ditch her quick.”
A White woman on an IG Threads thread expressed equal outrage at the information. She wrote, “Encouragement to intentionally provoke Black women so their reactions can be used to reinforce stereotypes about them…That’s racialized manipulation.”
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Danielle Brooks
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