For Jim from East Lansing, Michigan, who e-mailed the corner today and asked why Saint Ignatius didn't report on Wildcats sophomore-to-be lineman Liam Eichenberg receiving a scholarship "offer" from The Ohio State University's football program, WE REPORTED IT ON THE CORNER JIM, A MONTH AGO WHEN IT HAPPENED.

Jim was referring to an article on Liam by my former colleague Tim Warsinskey in The Plain Dealer today that focused on the growing trend of scholarship offers to players who haven't even played a down of high school varsity football. In a mini preview of the Wildcats' new opponents for the 2013 football season, that we posted on the corner a few weeks ago, we pointed out that highly touted quarterback David Sills V from Eastern Christian Academy in Maryland committed to the USC Trojans in grade school and has told the world he will honor that commitment. David will lead the Honey Badgers against the Wildcats in a Week 7 game at Byers Field.

After following high school football in this area since 1958 and now well into my fourth decade of reporting on it, I, like Tim Warsinskey, am not crazy about these young pups being "offered" so early. But it has been going on for some time and will only become a regular occurrence in football from here on.

Heck, magazines and web sites from all over the country have been rating the nation's top seventh graders in basketball for nearly 30 years now. And I am not just talking about LeBron James. Sorry Cleveland, but LeBron is simply the best, better than all the rest.

As for Liam, I am more concerned with how he can help the 2013 Saint Ignatius Wildcats, not with what he can do for the Buckeyes four seasons from now. Let me just say that Liam comes from a strong family and has some great athletic blood lines, so his future is very, very bright.