Georgia Tech sophomore Nicholas Selby has been receiving plenty of attention after his energetic welcome speech to incoming freshman went viral this week. The only question is, did he actually deserve all the attention?

A video of Selby's speech quickly garnered over a million views on YouTube after it was posted online this past Monday. In it, the sophomore can be seen giving a heartfelt pep talk wherein he implores his fellow students to, among other things, crush the shoulders of the giants they stand on.

There's only one slight problem: the speech isn't exactly Selby's invention. Granted, he did contribute plenty of words that were his own, but the whole theme, delivery, and timing of the speech were actually drawn from a different source, Andy Stone.

Stone delivered a very similar speech back in 2008 while he was the debate team champ for Arizona State University. As it turns out, he was also the Assistant Coach of the Speech, Theater and Debate Company at Desert Vista High School back in 2006, of which Selby was a member until he graduated last year.

"An unverified Reddit account claiming to belong to the Georgia Tech Social Media team confirmed in a Georgia Tech subreddit thread questioning Selby's originality that the speech was indeed 'inspired' by Stone, but insists that Selby 'made no secret' of the source. The Georgia Tech account goes on to claims that Selby even went so far as to call Stone and ask him for permission to use his speech," reports Gawker.

So, it appears likely that Selby was very much aware of and open about the origins of his speech. Granted, he probably did not expect to get the sort of widespread media attention that he has, so we may just have to chalk this one up to someone who was a bit nervous about speaking in front of 400 people and wanted a sure-fire killer speech.

Fair enough, but it certainly takes a bit away from the whole epic nature of Selby's tirade. Selby is allegedly supposed to give an interview to Your World with Neil Cavuto on Thursday, so stay tuned to see how this one plays out and watch both clips below to see just how similar the two speeches are. Skip to 8:40 to hear the important part of Stone's speech.