If David Sills is worried about any potential NCAA sanctions heading USC’s way, he isn’t showing it. That’s probably because the middle-schooler won’t sign his letter of intent until 2015.
USC head coach Lane Kiffin offered the 7th grade quarterback from Delaware a scholarship today and Sills accepted.
“I’m very excited, but I was very, very nervous,” Sills told the News Journal tonight. “It was very cool but my heart was beating so fast and I was scared. But after it was over, I was so excited and pumped.”
Sills has been training with California quarterback coach Steve Clarkson since he was a 10-year-old, and the 13-year-old quarterback is now a twiggish 5-foot-11 and 135 pounds. Don’t worry, Trojan fans, doctors tell Sills that once he goes through -- well, you know -- puberty, he could grow to 6-foot-5.
I’m trying to find positive things to say about this, but let’s get serious. What are the odds this kid ends up at USC? One in ten? One in fifty? What are the odds Lane Kiffin is coaching the Trojans in 2015? One in a hundred?
Kiffin, who made headlines offering Eric Berry’s 13-year-old brother a scholarship last year and accepting his commitment to the Vols, followed the same playbook with a kid, this time offering a kid that’s been making headlines for getting shipped across the country and spending thousands of dollars on sports to follow his father’s dreams since he was ten.
(Does anyone else feel like they need to take a shower?)
The NCAA prohibits schools from formally offering scholarships until a recruit registers with the NCAA Clearinghouse, but why would that stop Kiffin from getting his hands on a preteen?
While I’m sure USC will backpedal their way out of this one, and this is all a part of Kiffin’s grand-plan to draw publicity to a Trojan program that really needs more eyeballs on it (or to gather a few more secondary violations), but Kiffin really does his best to be a part of what’s wrong with college football.