By Peter Sblendorio

Lane Kiffin has not even been the head coach at USC for a month, but he is already making controversial decisions.

Kiffin got a verbal commitment from 13-year-old Quarterback David Sills, a seventh grader from Bear, Delaware. This is more than five years before Sills will graduate high school.

How Kiffin can project a player’s talent five years in advance is beyond me. While Sills has been extremely impressive in his short career as a football player, he is far ahead of his teammates and opponents and how he would do against defenses filled with D-1 is unknown.

It is often difficult to project how many Varsity high school senior players will project in a Division 1 system, so it is nearly impossible to expect greatness from a middle schooler. This commitment only adds pressure and puts unecessary hype on Sills, who will be unable to escape the public eye until he actually performs well in college.

What makes this worse is that this is not even the first middle school recruit that Kiffin has been committed with. When he was with USC, Kiffin got a commitment out of a thirteen year old Evan Berry, brother of Vols star Eric Berry.

While there is not harm on recruiting early, Sills agreement to play with USC is premature and ridiculous.