The rich pipeline that is seventh-grade basketball talent will be exposed no longer!
That reads like a pretty funny headline, but it’s a serious issue. For a few year’s now, lots of coaches have been digging deep into recruiting pipelines. But the NCAA yesterday declared that any player as young as a seventh-grader will now be considered a prospect, meaning said players will fall under the same guidelines as a five-star senior athlete.
Good.
The organization voted Thursday to change the definition of a prospect from ninth grade to seventh grade — for men’s basketball only — to nip a trend in which some college coaches were working at private, elite camps and clinics for seventh- and eighth-graders. The NCAA couldn’t regulate those camps because those youngsters fell below the current cutoff.
I say we blame this on O.J. Mayo.
Got game in the 7th grade? NCAA says you’re prospect {AP}
