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How young is too young to offer someone a football scholarship?

Any age prior to HS is too young.

I love the new rule for Lax that there can be no contact with prospects prior to Junior year. It had gotten to the point that most of the top kids were offered by their 8th grade year.
 
Fight CU said:
Any age prior to HS is too young.

I love the new rule for Lax that there can be no contact with prospects prior to Junior year. It had gotten to the point that most of the top kids were offered by their 8th grade year.
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Would a similar rule for football be a good idea? Absolutely no contact with kids before their Sophomore or Junior seasons. Would that do anything to help level the playing field?
 
Fight CU said:
Any age prior to HS is too young.

I love the new rule for Lax that there can be no contact with prospects prior to Junior year. It had gotten to the point that most of the top kids were offered by their 8th grade year.
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I like this. No scholarship offers before the junior year would work for me. I could be talked into sophomore year, but I think that's too early.
 
I would support this. I'd also love to see no agent contact until declarred and no financial loans from agents be an enforced thing from the NCAA. Those guys and the strippers they surround themselves with are serious leaches on some young men.
 
you don't just "get noticed" - there's a lot of money involved in getting your kid on the right team and to the right events and introduced to the "right people". It's expensive and highly competitive / political. I am very happy to not have to start the rat race with lax...football - it's a total **** show.
 
I don't think an offer is commitable until their Junior year anyway. Do I have that right? Up until that point, I really don't care how early they go. They can offer a middle schooler for all I care. That same middle schooler can't commit for another three or four years.
 
sackman said:
I don't think an offer is commitable until their Junior year anyway. Do I have that right? Up until that point, I really don't care how early they go. They can offer a middle schooler for all I care. That same middle schooler can't commit for another three or four years.
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An offer being commitable doesn't have a minimum age requirement. If the school wants to accept a kid's verbal commitment in 6th grade, they can... not that it means much.
 
Simple. If you offer and the kid commits, prior to junior year, you must honor that full ride, regardless of kids performance from that point on.

If you offer jr or sr year, regular rules apply.
 
pretty much at the point of conception. egg meets sperm and magic happens. commitable offer, right then and there.
 
Well, not to be judgmental, it's too young with this kid imho. Too much can happen, always one play away from things changing drastically. I'd say sophomore year on is where offers should happen.
 
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