If you want to "fix" the early recruiting issue, it's simple. ANY offer to any kid at any age must be IN WRITING! No more verbal offers that can be rescinded if the kid doesn't develop the way a coach wants/thinks he should. The offer will include a minimum of ONE YEAR of whatever scholarship money is offered and count against the program's scholly money for the first year. If the coach wants to pull the offer, he loses that scholarship money...whether the kid comes to his school or not. The kid who commits is also held to ONE YEAR of committment to the school...UNLESS the head coach is fired or leaves before the start of the player's freshman fall. If he decommits before then "just because" he loses a year of eligibility if he wants to stay at the D1or D2 level. If he goes Juco, NAIA or D3, the offer/commitment is gone. Everyone blames the coaches, but you also have to put some blame on the kid/parents who commit as a freshman when they haven't even played a HS game. I think some kids/parents just want to "be committed" to a big time program....even if they truly have no idea what that commitment involves or if it's really the school the kid wants to end up at for 4 years of his life.