Young Gun Slangas

February 15th, 2010 | By boadurichard

Two weeks ago, USC head coach, Lane Kiffin offered a 13 year old David Sills from Bear, DE. Everyone got on Kiffin’s tail about this, but I don’t think it was that big of a deal. If Kiffin didn’t do it someone was going to very soon, and no, the fact that someone else was going to do it doesn’t make it right or wrong. If you are the parent of a pre-teen that can do something really well, and you tell his parents, when he’s ready to go to college we’ll pay foot the bill if he continues to build on his potential, what would you do? You’d say hell yes in heartbeat. Does that make you a bad parent for easing your financial load? No. Does it make you a terrible person for offering a pre-teen that is extremely talented a free education if he continues to progress. No. Also, Sills didn’t just come out of nowhere to pop on Kiffin’s radar. Check out this great story on him by CBS’ Dennis Dodd written over a year ago. Here’s a profile of Sills on QB coach guru, Steve Clarkson’s, website.

Let kids be kids, why don’t you. Why? I mean, child actors don’t lead normal lives and yes many are wrecks when they get older, but it’s more or less their lack of parenting rather than their early success. Child sporting phenoms are different child entertainers .

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