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posted by Scot McKnight | 11:12am Saturday February 6, 2010

Did you see this? We need to write the NCAA to petition that this sort of nonsense be changed. Recruiting is bad enough; football recruiting probably the worst, but recruiting 13-years olds is out of bounds — and USC backers need to weigh in too.

Go ahead and laugh, but this time, Lane Kiffin may have outfoxed us.

Kiffin’s scholarship offer to a 13-year-old seventh grader has turned into a national joke, right down to the obligatory Chris Hansen/Dateline NBC references. It’s positively hilarious that Kiffin — whose just-spell-my-name-right style of attention-grabbing recruiting has earned him a reputation bigger than his 7-6 record as a college head coach — would promise a scholarship in the class of 2015 to a player who might not shave for three more years.

I’ll admit it. I chuckled, too. Until I searched for David Sills on YouTube. Then everything made sense.

The description of the clip touts the Bear, Del., quarterback prodigy as “the best young phenom since Tiger Woods.” (Get your minds out of the gutter, sickos.) The clip itself is a 117-second commercial for DreamMaker, the newest project for quarterback guru Steve Clarkson, whose past students include Matt Leinart, Jimmy Clausen and Matt Barkley.



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Clay Knick

posted February 6, 2010 at 11:26 am


Dumb. This type of thing makes college football a parody of itself.
The other is “students” who play one year of basketball and then leave right away for the NBA (yes, I’ve cheered my team on when it has had players who’ve done that, I guess I’m part of the problem.)



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Chris Oakes

posted February 6, 2010 at 12:23 pm


I disagree. Other nations train kids from birth to succeed in professional areas – sports, music, agriculture. Why do we think it should be different in our culture, in which amateur and professional sports have become one of the largest revenue-generating activities in the history of the world?



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Scot McKnight

posted February 6, 2010 at 2:18 pm


Chris, the difference here is that USC is an educational institution, and the other countries have the sense to separate sports from education.



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Dan

posted February 6, 2010 at 4:32 pm


I think this is kinda’ silly, too. Clearly another attention grabber. However, if this isn’t appropriate, and again I don’t think it is, when is it appropriate to offer an oral commitment to a kid?
DJ|AMDG



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Scot McKnight

posted February 6, 2010 at 4:42 pm


Dan, when he/she can prove himself/herself academically through standardized testing. These are universities, not sports companies.



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RJS

posted February 6, 2010 at 5:44 pm


I’ve known a handful of 13 year old’s who could meet minimum standards on tests (some reasonably good athletes). These are not exactly high.
I want to know when Aksel will get an offer.



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Kenton

posted February 6, 2010 at 8:45 pm


My thoughts when I heard this:
1. Why does anyone think Lane Kiffin will still be at USC in 2015?
2. This kid is going to have a HUGE target on his chest for awhile.
3. How hard is it going to be to recruit a QB to Southern Cal in ’13 & ’14?



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Karl

posted February 6, 2010 at 11:30 pm


Football recruiting is bad. But it doesn’t hold a candle to basketball recruiting. The shoe companies, traveling all star teams, “handlers” and AAU circuit have turned basketball recruiting into a cesspool.
But yeah, this is silly. Kiffin has made more career moves, based on fewer actual achievements, than just about any football coach I can think of.



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