It was more than four years ago that this very site brought you the story of Ben Onett, a 13-year-old New Hampshire quarterback who was already thinking college recruiting. His lovably low-tech scouting profile, set up by his family, still exists, but it’s an artifact of a simpler time. Now this stuff is commonplace, like with barely pubescent David Sills “committing” to USC, and it’s still all publicity stunting, but we’ve learned to accept that college sports are weird and wrong and that there are worse things to get bent out of shape over. (Even our headline seems naive: when’s the last time we expected our NCAA stars to be in school for the “enjoyment of sport”?) More »

[Deadspin]