the coaches can not wait because the kids and the parents will not wait. They just don't have enough confidence and I'm not going to say they are wrong. If a kid wants to go to Hop but UNC offers a good package in 9th grade, the parents will take it rather than wait and the kid sucks it up, and it is a lock. There are just to many things that can go badly in the next few years. And if the coaches wait too long, all the studs will be taken and then people will say the coaches are dumb/lazy aren't working within the system.

its no win for the coaches and locking in is a win for the parents. The kids lose out, all of them.

If the NCAA gave a damn about the kids, they would put a stop to this, but they are a big business as well and they don't want to police anything because that impacts their bottom line. The NCAA is a joke. They have a proposal to act upon, they could fix this now and they will not.