i don't think you can point at just the kids. look at recruiting as a whole. you have trained professionals that get paid millions per year to be extremely persuasive. you have a multi-million dollar recruiting industry these days. when you are CONSTANTLY being contacted by professional recruiting gurus hoping to break the news and CONSTANTLY being recruiting by men paid millions of dollars to get you to sign on the dotted line, kids are prone to "commit". whether they mean it or not, it can get at least some of the heat off their back or maybe in the moment they do mean it when the multi-millionaire salesman gets done with him. then another multi-millionaire salesman rolls into the house and pitches him and it sounds damn good too. and remember this kid is 16-18 and still in HS. hardly a grizzled adult whose "seen it all". hell, most adults are stillsusceptibleto a good salesman. and these coaches are much better salesmen than your avg used car salesman. it's just the nature of the beast and there's no reason to act all high and mighty like "back in my day your word meant something" because back in your day the system was nothing like it is today.
