There were a fair number of 2021 boys and girls being recruited as the door shut on recruiting. Of the other age groups 2019-2020s, most of the top prospects had been picked off, but still some solid players available when they hit junior year, especially in 2020.

But what is about to happen for this 2021 age group will be fun to watch. The early recruiting was cheating all these kids of exposure. The top kids were committing in eight grade before most colleges even had a toe in the mix, before many coaches even got to see them, and before the masses of coaches ever got a chance to get an offer in. With much of the recruiting already done for the top 2019 and 2020's, the 21's will get a massive amount of exposure over the next 2-1/2 years, like no age group ever prior to and more than any age group to follow. They have the lions share of the coaches attention for the next 2.5 yrs. It is setting up to be a all out frenzy for the top players in 2021. Watch and see these players get buried in offers starting on September 1st, 2019. These players will be fully recognized and sorted out, by nearly all the schools. The early recruiting days had only a handful of schools venturing out and willing to take a gamble on such young kids. I have already seen many examples of early commits get swallowed up by their peers even before they finish 9th-10th grade. That whole hit or miss and uncertainty should be gone for the college coaches, and they will have an "all in" attitude.
How does it go down on September 1st if your a college coach? You got an entire class to fill- 8-10 players. How many players do you need to show interest in in order to land 8-10? Do they just worry about landing a top player first? Offer 5 to hope and get one? because everyone is going hard after the same small handful of players? And it all starts the same day as 100 other coaches. The coaches wanted this this recruiting legislation in place, if you ask me, it seems like it would make the process a [lacrosse] of a lot more stressful for the coaches.