College Sports Programs Want Your Kids
USC coach Lane Kiffen offered a scholarship to a young receiver in California last week. Like, real young. 8th grade. Not to be outdone, UCLA the next day offered a scholarship to another 8th grader, a quarterback out of Texas. And it’s not the first time, either. These are some of the kids have already made a mark on college sports programs and some of them are too young to shave. Here’s some of the young athletes who in the next 5, you will be gambling on and wearing their college jerseys.
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[three_fourth_last]Brodarious Hamm, 15 years Old, Football Scholarship Offer to University of Georgia[/three_fourth_last]
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Size obviously matters to the University of Georgia when looking for defensive linemen. Georgia head coach Mark Richt has made an offer to high school freshman Brodarious Hamm to come play for the Bulldogs. Brodarious is 15 years old and is already 6 foot 3 inches and weighs 292 pounds and wears size 18 shoes. Georgia must be thinking not only will the kid get better, he’ll also get bigger.
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[three_fourth_last]Cody Riley , 13 years old, Basketball Scholarship Offer to University of Arizona[/three_fourth_last]
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This 8th grad power forward is already ranked at the top of the recruiting class for 2017, but he’s already been recruited. The University of Arizona offered a scholarship to the 13 year old after videos of him dunking appeared online. He’s 6’6″, 200 pounds and has been dominating kids his own age. Scouts have been amazed that a kid this big can move this athletically at his age.
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Dylan Moses , 14 years old, Football Scholarship Offers to LSU and University of Alabama
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8th grader Dylan Moses is only 14 years old and has two major programs battling for him. He’s received scholarship offers from both LSU and Alabama. He’s getting twice the offers because he does twice the work on the football field. The 6 foot one, 215 pound 8th grader from Baton Rouge, plays both the running back and linebacker positions. Nick Saban has assured Dylan’s father that his son will be the number one player in the country in the high school class of 2017.
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Jairus Brents, 13 years old, Football Scholarship Offer to Kentucky
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All it took was a day at football camp for 7th grader Jairus Brents to get a verbal offer of a scholarship from the University of Kentucky. His godfather who played at Louisville and Notre Dame got a video of the 13 year old cornerback at camp to Kentucky cornerbacks coach Derrick Ansley and the offer was made. The deal can’t become official until 2018 when Jairus will be old enough to commit according to NCAA rules.
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Nathan Tilford, 13 years old, Fooball Scholarship Offer to USC
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USC’s Lane Kiffin recruited a 13 year old quarterback, so he must be looking for receivers for him to throw to down the road. This year, Kiffin offered a scholarship to an 8th grade receiver. The 6 foot 2 190 pound middle schooler was just beginning summer practices with his current. His middle school coach has said that he hopes Nathan gets to enjoy high school ball before he has to start worrying about playing in college.
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Lindell Stone, 14 years old, Football Scholarship Offer to UCLA
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Not to be outdone by rival USC, Jim Mora Jr. has recruited his own 8th grade quarterback. Lindell Stone is already getting huge compliments as a pocket passer in Texas. The biggest compliment is that the 6 foot 2, 190 pounder is already gotten the interest of different schools with the first verbal commitment coming from UCLA.
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Michael Avery, 13 years old, Basketball Scholarship Offer to Kentucky
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In 2008, Kentucky gave, what was called the youngest verbal commitment in the history of University of Kentucky basketball. Michael Avery was recruited to play Wildcat basketball by then Kentucky coach Billy Gilispie. The problem was that Gillispie was fired long before the kid was even close to graduating high school. Michael Avery decided that without Gillispie, Kentucky wasn’t the place for him and since committed to playing at Sonoma State.
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David Sills, 13 years old, Football Scholarship Offer to USC
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In 2010, one of the first things new University of Southern Cal coach Lane Kiffin did was start recruiting. And one of his first recruits to get offered a scholarship was a 13 year old boy named David Sills. David was a middle school quarterback who at age 12 was already receiving interest from UCLA. He won’t be officially allowed to sign his letter of intent for another 2 years, but David says USC is his dream school. His father made sure everyone was clear that this was his son’s dream and guaranteed that David won’t be another Todd Marinovich.
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Demetrius Walker – 14 years old – Arizona State
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Back in 2005, Demetrius Walker was being called the next LeBron James. He was in 8th grade and already 6 foot 3 and weighing 175 pounds. Arizona State was ready to give him a full ride. The problem is that when Demetrius reached adulthood and arrived at college to play Pac-10 basketball, he was still 6 foot 3. The only growing he did after 8th grade was putting on 20 pounds. He ended up only starting one game for ASU and finally had to transfer out.
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