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Robbing the cradle
Posted by Bigfoot on February 5th, 2010
The first week of February includes the day when high school football players, who have previously been offered athletic scholarships and verbally announced their respective choices on which college to attend and play for, sign their letters of intent, thus sealing the recruiting process.
The recruiting process includes contact between the high school players and college coaches, according to rules and guidelines set by the NCAA. The player is also allowed have up to five expense-paid visits to college campuses. Most of the time, these players have declared their intentions during their senior year of high school, but some of them decide earlier, mostly during their junior year.
Newly hired USC head coach Lane Kiffin, who recently left the same position at Tennessee after losing the Chick-Fil-A Bowl to my Hokies, has received a verbal commitment from an athlete who has not yet finished playing high school football. In fact, he hasn’t even started. The kid’s just 13.
February 6th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Don’t discount those early commitments, Bigfoot. Joey Harrington (a bust in the NFL but a good college QB) was committed to Oregon by his dad when he was born. Turned out o.k. for Oregon. Maybe Kiffen will still be there when the kid’s old enough to declare.