13 year old commits to USC

There is something just sick about this. Imagine if someone tried convincing Bo to accept the commitment of a 13-year-old.. he'd probably backhand whoever proposed it.

 
:facepalm:

This is just my opinion but what if this kid doesn't turn out to be the star athlete later in life? Kid still young and has a lot of football ahead of him and things could turn south like injuries. Lane Kiffin will look like a moron for offering a kid a scholorship at a young age and I'm sure he would pull the scholarship too. Just my opinion

13yr QB in Delaware

 
I saw this on OTL. Way over the line just think how long the OWA saga went on. Did he offer the scholly over a game of fricking pokemon? If he keeps up the USC trend does he buy the kid a power wheels instead of a car?

 
Just noticed that there is another thread about this same topic in the Recruiting forum. Admin and/or Mod you can merge this thread with the other one since he beat me to it :lol:

 
HuskerBruin said:
A verbal commitment from a 13-year-old is worth about as much as a message board post.

Former USC basketball coach Tim Floyd also used to get verbal commits from 13-year-old kids. And how did that work out for Floyd?
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Besides a commitment from 13-year-old is about reliable as a pro wrestlin' referee.

 
This is where you just pray that the kid isn't as talented as they think he is, and they get stuck having to give him a scholarship and he never plays a single down...but then they will probably just pull the offer if the kid washes out.

The NCAA should investigate, and come up with a rule, if there isn't one already, against doing something like this. I don't think they could do it in all states, because my step-son in Kansas couldn't be approached until he was at least in high school as a lineman, and he was over 6' and 220 as a middle school student.

 
Here's an update.

Reader's Digest Version: Sark wasn't interested. Went to West Virginia. Played a little WR as a true frosh due to short numbers. Transferred to a JUCO down the road from USC to play QB.

 
Didn't ESPN(?) have an update on this kid who pretty much said he was used as a publicity stunt? He never asked for the offer or thought he was going to get an offer and the whole story just kind of blew up?

 
I don't know about ESPN but according to the article he was working with a QB coach who was friends with Kiffin and it kind of went from there. The QB coach kind of got the whole thing started.

 
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