I saw a few late bloomers from Limestone scrimmage UNC. They beat UNC's 1s very thoroughly. I saw a few more late bloomers absolutely wipe out UVA's 1s in another scrimmage. Today some top D3 teams can beat ranked D1 teams. The pushing for the best very young youth players hasn't yielded better college players. I am not just pointing to 2 weeks this spring when I note that. There are many 2016 and 2017 early commits in the DMV who won't see the field in college. Some of them aren't seeing the field at their prep schools. I've heard it all that these certain preps have all the best players, so second line middies there are great. Honestly, if you struggle to stand out junior or senior year of high school, early recruiting is a mistake.