There's a 6-foot-8 eighth grader in Warminster, Bucks County. Why should we care? Because a recruiting service says we should.

If you drop Horace Spencer's name into Google, chances are you'll come across a video like the one I linked here with this post.

He's a 13-year-old who attends Klinger Middle School, he's ranked second in the nation by HypeBasketball in the Class of 2015 and he has college coaches from the Big 5 attending his games ... and he's not even yet enrolled in high school. (He also recently was the subject of a feature story in one of the Philadelphia area daily newspapers.)

This is what's wrong with youth/high school sports. Let the kid be a kid. Chances are he's swatting shots toward midcourt, rebounding with authority and scoring at will because he's got six, seven inches on his tallest opponents. I'm not saying Spencer isn't the real deal (even though I do think it's absurd to compare a pubescent basketball player to LeBron James), but I'd like to see how this all levels out as he moves up in skill level in the next couple years.