Boy is this a sticky subject on some HS teams.In our town the early verbals lead to issues. Parents were complaining little Johnny committed to Division 1 school X,but so did other kids quite a few,coach was pulling his hair out trying to put out fires with some over zealous parents, The end result,equal playing time,which resulted in not as many wins as should have had. That lead to another round of belly aching ...you cant plaes everyone!
Slippery slope for sure. What about the early verbal in a grade that is benefitting from the early recruiting trend versus the 2014s where it wasn't so accelerated. You could have upper classmen who have not yet committed that are clearly better than the younger early committs but because of the early recruiting phenomenon you'll have D1 commits riding the pine behind upper classmen that are not yet committed. This will be happening all over the place for sure.
Trust that the HS coaches will be able to understand and seperate the differences in the recruiting landscape among classes and not cloud his judgement that an early D1 commit in a younger grade (eg. 2016) is not necessarily better than a non-comiitted upper classman.
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