Recruiting of Eighth Graders ... and they're girls.

[MaxBuck]

Committing to Play for a College, Then Starting 9th Grade

“It’s detrimental to the whole development of the sport, and to the girls,” Haley’s future coach at Texas, Angela Kelly, said at the Florida tournament.

The difficulty, according to Ms. Kelly and many other coaches, is that if they do not do it, other coaches will, and will snap up all of the best players. Many parents and girls say that committing early ensures they do not miss out on scholarship money.

After the weekend in Florida, the coach at Virginia, Steve Swanson, said, “To me, it’s the singular biggest problem in college athletics.” ...

 

[jlb1705]

People always wonder why the NCAA has such a thick book full of dumb rules... Things like this are the reason why. Every dumb or abitrary rule in the book is the result of a previously incomprehensible race to the bottom by one or more unscrupulous universities.