I wish they would change the date that colleges can offer scholarships to kids initially until after Sept 1st of the kids senior season. That would help colleges to research these kids long and hard, it would also maybe give the kids a little warning as to who is interested in them. Christian Ballard at Kansas for example, had no idea that he was going to be heavily recruited by UCLA, Oklahoma and Iowa. He then bailed on Kansas, and came to Iowa. You can't really blame these kids for changing their minds they are after all kids, but what needs to be done are rules put in place where kids can't even be contacted or put in the position to chose a school until after a set point (sept of Senior year) then let the schools all pounce on who they want, show love for a kid and he's likely to take your offer. Don't leave it up to a 16-17 year old kid to make a decision like ND or Florida... let him get his affairs in order, let him concentrate on school and finishing out his High School Career then reward him with offers after a set date where he will then know just who it is thats been admiring him, just who it is that has really done their research and want to take a chance on him...
To many of these kids are recruited by one school for 7 monthes, then other schools who have lost out on other kids sweep in late and act like the kids been on their big board through the entire process. It's sickening.
