Originally Posted by Anonymous
If the NCAA prohibited recruiting a kid (verbal commitments) until 11th grade a lot of this nonsense would stop. Parents (trying to compete with each other) wouldn't be compelled to put their kid on a 3rd grade travel team, nor would they be in a speed school before they enter elementary school. There is plenty of blame to go around, but there is no incentive to stop it. The parents are paying, the coaches are collecting and the colleges are competing for kids before they even have hair on their legs. What a mess.


There were crazy parents, "A" and "B" teams, travel teams, manipulative [lacrosse] kissing parents, daddy coaches, good coaches, bad coaches, and self serving parents controlling youth programs long before the first 9th or 10th grader verbally committed to Virginia, Hopkins, UNC, Penn or Cornell.