It's such an odd thing to me, for colleges to offer athletic scholarships to children whom are this young and might not even have entered into puberty yet, and I have to wonder if that's even 'ethical' or not to pursue youth athletes like that, although it does not violate any rules. It just seems intuitively wrong to me in a fundamental way, to start distracting and hassling these kids with that kind of nonsense at that early of an age, especially since the process of navigating one's way through those early years of adolescence can be so terribly difficult to begin with, and I say that as both a middle school teacher as well as a father. That kind of feeding frenzy around a child that young just seems to me to be indecent, and if any school started bothering one of my children at such a tender age, I'd tell them to go piss straight up a rope and get back to that child once they'd entered high school.
That seems to be the new trend though and unlikely to go away unless there are rules put in place to prevent it, as schools want to be the first in jumping the gun and getting in on talented youngsters ahead of everyone else. It's happening more and more often in football, as in the case of kid QB David Sills, who began to be initially contacted by colleges at the age of 9, recruited heavily by the age of 11, and verbally commited to play at USC during his 6th grade season, and it's been the same thing with Dylan Moses, whom by the age of 12 had received scholarship offers from the likes of Alabama, LSU, Texas, Ole Miss, Nebraska, Florida, UCLA, and Florida State.
I don't know. I just wonder where it's going to end, and if it's really helpful to these children to be doing that to them. I think not, but maybe that's just me.