Stop right there. No NCAA school can offer a player a scholarship as an 8th grader. There can be a lot of talk and BS, but until an NLI is available, no scholarship is available to that player and that cannot be done until their junior year. A coach or school rep stating or insinuating a player will receive a scholarship prior to that is like a politician promising something s/he hasn't the authority to provide
Yet it happens almost every day.