A little over a week after SportsLetter told you about a verbal commitment given to USC by putative football wunderkind David Sills comes the news that DePaul's interim men's basketball coach Tracy Webster has offered a scholarship to an 8th-grader from Rosemont, Illinois.
Yes, Jahlil Okafor's distant cousin is NBA center Emeka Okafor; and yes, young Jahlili stands 6-7½, with a potential for him to grow to 7-3, according to his doctor; and yes, yes, yes, according to ESPN, "Jahlil has no trouble dominating inside, grabbing rebounds easily and throwing down dunks," but ... why has recruiting become so desperate that coaches are scouring the PG-13 set for potential superstars?
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