kandkfunk
Proud Parent
They would be know as Stanford
My bet is that since Stanford is an Ivy, this has more to do with a lack of academic record for the younger athletes than anything else. It's hard to know if a 9th grader is going to have the academic chops to make it. But, maybe I'm totally wrong and it's more altruistic than that
I literally just read an article on an athlete (not gymnastics) who switched his verbal commitment. This is the second one I've read about in the last week. Most kids don't seem to really start thinking about college until about 11th grade. I think it's just too abstract for some of them to fully understand at the younger ages.