Committing young -- Is it a bad thing?

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Dawgsports on the Road: Lexington, Kentucky
Published 5/10/2008 by MaconDawg at Dawg Sports: Front Page Posts
... <strong>Kentucky basketball:</strong> The jury's still out on Billy Gillispie. For some reason the few basketball fans I talked to were less upset about their loss to us in the SEC tournament than they were about the loss to Marquette in the NCAA tournament. They generally blamed both on Tubby Smith. There was also some grumbling about <a href="http://www.aseaofblue.com/2008/5/2/13513/57676"><span style="color:#000099;">offering scholarships</span></a> to fourth graders. I'm not sure what that's all about, and as a guest in ...

Headlines, Links & Lies … “Don’t Make Me Call the Law” Edition
Published 5/14/2008 by lawvol at Gate 21
... Trying to explain away Billy Gillespie’s cradle-robbing rampage – A Sea of Blue ...

A Smidge of Sanity in the Recruiting World?
Published 6/21/2008 by rtmsf at Rush the Court
... While I often agree with and respect the reasoned discourse made by the esteemed Truzenzuzex at A Sea of Blue, the Kentucky blog of record as far as we’re concerned, we never could quite get over the smell test on this one.  Notwithstanding the arguments of caveat emptor and the lack of any enforceability of such early commitments, this whole situation just had a backroom feel of predatory extortion, an awkward taking advantage of kids (and parents) who may not know any better.  We view it as not dissimilar to the equally distasteful ...