Early offers

[Slick Manager of Champs]

Starting to seem really early offers to WPIAL players, 8th graders! They aren't even eligible to play a varsity game yet so I assume it is based on camp performance.

I believe Narduzzi has made several offers to kids who just completed 9th grade (I saw a tweet from Gleason at Char-Valley that he was just offered)

So my question is the WPIAL really seeing an upswing in talent for 2027 & 2028? Or is this residual of NIL and trying to get in before the price is too high?

 

[Upg bobcat]

The PSN article mentions a "Central Catholic 8th grader" getting an offer. Central doesn't have an 8th grade, do they?

 

[Slick Manager of Champs]

The PSN article mentions a "Central Catholic 8th grader" getting an offer. Central doesn't have an 8th grade, do they?

no, so I assume he is enrolling in the fall as a 9th grader

 

[pittdan77]

I wouldn't label them committable offers but it's an easy way to make an impression on the kid and their coach.

 

[Pitt79]

Maybe they just offer promising kids so that if they do develop, they might have Pitt in mind?

 

[Jeffburgh]

Who was that local QB who they offered and I think actually committed that was in, maybe 10th grade, and by the time he was a senior they kind of backed off him?

 

[TheSpecialSauce]

Who was that local QB who they offered and I think actually committed that was in, maybe 10th grade, and by the time he was a senior they kind of backed off him?

Chandler Kincaide - Blackhawk

 

[Slick Manager of Champs]

Chandler Kincaide - Blackhawk

whatever happened to that QB from Gateway who had an offer from Oregon as a freshman, Birch? Is he playing anywhere now?

 

[Pitt79]

There was the guy Sills, he committed to USC as a QB at age 12, and never made it, and later transferred around to a bunch of places and eventually ended up as a WR at WVU, he got some NFL tryouts, and I don't think he ever made it.

 

[Slick Manager of Champs]

There was the guy Sills, he committed to USC as a QB at age 12, and never made it, and later transferred around to a bunch of places and eventually ended up as a WR at WVU, he got some NFL tryouts, and I don't think he ever made it.

he was a decent WR at WVU, so things turned out ok for him in the end. Seemed crazy back then to offer an 8th grader but it is becoming the new normal

 

[Jeffburgh]

Chandler Kincaide - Blackhawk

That's it.

 

[Mikefln]

Chandler Kincaide - Blackhawk

If I remember correctly, injuries started staking up. He just wasn't the same player at that point.

 

[Mikefln]

whatever happened to that QB from Gateway who had an offer from Oregon as a freshman, Birch? Is he playing anywhere now?

Great question, I was wondering that myself.

 

[TheSpecialSauce]

If I remember correctly, injuries started staking up. He just wasn't the same player at that point.

I think it was more a case of him hitting a growth spurt before everyone else and people were desperate for the next great WPIAL QB. I saw him play when he was a Jr. and he simply didn’t have the arm or accuracy.