Leading off today: The NCAA is considering a ban on scholarship offers to recruits in all sports before the end of their junior year in high school, an idea that even many coaches do not oppose -- even though they also say it cannot be sufficiently enforced.

   The proposal could be passed later this year or next, and it would prohibit offers before July 1 before an athlete's senior year, which would in theory end the silliness that has seen scores of freshmen and sophomores be given non-binding offers.

   "Why legislate something that can’t be enforced,” Virginia Tech men’s basketball coach Seth Greenberg told FOXSports.com's Jeff Goodman.

   For one thing, the rule would not stop players from announcing their commitments -- again, non-binding -- whenever the mood struck. While at USC, Tim Floyd took a commitment from then-Illinois eighth-grade guard Ryan Boatright and from Dwayne Polee Jr., before he ever played a high school game.

   "We felt as though we had to do it," Illinois coach Bruce Weber said of making scholarship offers to young players.

   The National Association of Basketball Coaches proposed last year to not allow scholarship offers prior to the completion of the sophomore year. That would be no easier to monitor and enforce.

   "It’s just going to be a wink and a nod,” added Georgia Tech coach Paul Hewitt. "What are we supposed to say when a kid wants to come? No? I think it puts us in a bad spot.”

   The long, hard road: The New York Daily News followed up this week on Blake Hunt, 20, who was paralyzed by a shattered C5 vertebra in his neck during a football scrimmage in September 2007 of his senior year at Flushing High.

   Not surprisingly, it's been a difficult mix of depression and other challenges for Hunt, who has lived at the Beth Abraham Health Services nursing home in the Bronx for more than two years.

   His outlook is beginning to improve, the paper reported. Hunt flew to west last month and stayed at the Hollywood home of actress/director Penny Marshall and received a new motorized wheelchair, courtesy of former race car driver Darrell Gwynn and former NFL player and pro wrestler Bill Goldberg.

   Hunt, paralyzed from the waist down with little movement in his upper body, is expecting to go to court

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next month when his lawsuit against the City of New York, Department of Education, the Parks Department and the PSAL goes to trial. He's seeking unspecified damages.

   ESG notes: Six of the 11 all-state selections who'll be playing in the scholastic women's basketball tournament next week in the Empire State Games will be wearing Hudson Valley uniforms.

   Saniya Chong (Ossining), Brittany Horne (Carmel) and Taneka Whittaker (Lourdes) were selected to the fifth, 10th and 12 teams, respectively, in Class AA. They're joined by Lillian McCabe (Rye, Class A, ninth team), Brittni Lai (Edgemont, Class B, third) and Liz Milner (Haldane, Class C, fourth).

   Not surprisingly in the era of over-the-top AAU events, almost all of the big names are skipping the boys basketball tournament. The only first-team NYSSWA picks on the roster as of last week were Western's Andrew Hoy (Batavia, Class B) and Adirondack's Zach Adams (Potsdam, Class B). The highest-rated Class AA player is P.J. Torres, a ninth-team pick from new Rochelle who'll represent Hudson Valley.

   At least three athletes who were all-state Class A football picks as juniors will also be competing for the Western Region, though obviously not in that sport. Corning running back Jordan Frysinger is playing lacrosse, while Williamsville South receiver Phil Stasiak and Aquinas receiver Chris Bostick are both on the baseball squad.