Recruiting

Recently while surfing the web I came across a article on a 13 year old boy who committed to the University of Southern California to play football. Now almost everyone knows USC for football, but not for how young they recruit, but because they are one of the nations top football teams and have been for years. Just this year they hired a new coach, Lane Kiffin, who offered the scholarship to the 13 year old boy. This brings up a very important question of, how young is too young to be recruiting kids? This boy would not be attending USC until 2015! Thats 5 years away, which to me is ridiculous. No kid who is in 7th grade should be being recruited by college coaches let alone being offered scholarships. No one can know whats going to happen to this kid in the 5 years before he gets to college, he could become a superstar or be one of the biggest busts ever, but either way he's going to USC for free because he can throw the ball well when hes 13. Now you may say that it's the coaches choice if he wants to take the risk on the kids at that age, but it puts a huge burden on the kids to succeed when they are recruited at such a young age. The recruiting can also cause the kids to have a big head and become extremely cocky and stop working. You must also consider the lack of morale code the coaches who recruit at this age have, as they manipulate a young mind into committing to them early by tempting them with a scholarship. This creates an unfair advantage for coaches who stoop low enough to recruit this young and others who choose to wait. What do you think about this recruiting style? Do you think it should be allowed?