I read this on the Recruiting Forum on HSBW, and thought it was interesting. Just thought it would be worthy of discussing. I know there are many different opinions on this matter, so this could be interesting. My son is on the cusp of the recruiting process, so I am learning. This is the quote that discusses the possible end to early verbal commits: Let us know what you think!
This is from Inside Higher Ed today, that could be of interest:
"A proposal to prohibit early verbal scholarship offers -- a controversial practice that permeates football and men’s basketball -- is among the major pieces of legislation on the docket for next week’s National Collegiate Athletic Association convention in San Antonio.
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The major proposed rule change on the docket for this year's convention, introduced by the Division I Recruiting and Athletics Personnel Issues Cabinet last summer, would ban institutions from making verbal offers of athletic scholarships to high school students in all sports before the July 1 following their junior year. Further, institutions would have to have high school transcripts on file with the grades of their potential recruits’ first five semesters of high school before extending a verbal offer."
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