It is the same in the big time sports...the difference is that in those sports, competing coaches are still recruiting kids that have given a verbal. the result is that over time, verbals mean nothing...not quite there in the lax world but as the sport grows so will the lengths that college coaches are willing to go.

Give it three or four years from now when a 2017 committed kid gets offered a better package (or god bless him) a 3/4 full ride at some other school. His parents and he will come to know that there they could use the extra dollars and avoid some loan debt and jump...