Coach group concerned about rise of early commitments

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Billy Gillispie Isn’t the Only One Locking Up 8th Graders
Published 9 days ago by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... . Today’s piece in USA Today skews negative, and it seems like a hot topic that we’ll see Doug Gottlieb and Jay Bilas arguing over in a matter of hours. But let’s not castrate Gillispie for this - how soon we forget that a few years ago, ...

Hello, I would like to recruit your eighth grader
Published 8 days ago by Big A at Inside the Hall | An Indiana basketball blog
... the kid in junior high gym class that had a mustache, posted you up and abused you down low? He was probably the same height at high school graduation. This post isn’t meant as an attack on Gillispie specifically. He’s not the first coach to take a commitment from a kid this young and he definitely won’t be the last. But you can bet as this becomes more prevalent, it’s only going to turn up the heat on the NCAA to take action. The National Association of Basketball Coaches is already starting the dialogue :“It greatly concerns me,” said NABC executive director Jim Haney. “To ...