I don’t know if there’s anything more insane in all of sports than college recruiting. It’s remarkable how enranged fans get at the decisions teenagers make, and it’s equally troubling how much under-the-table cash and general unethical stuff goes on to get a kid to come to your university. But hey: It is what it is.

In college basketball, the trend has turned incredibly young in recent years. Billy Gillispie offered a scholarship to an eighth-grader — an EIGHTH-GRADER! — last year, and college coaches are working camps for junior high kids. Sort of creepy, sort of over-the-top, but they’re only keeping with everyone else.

However, no longer, sayeth the NCAA:

The organization voted Thursday to change the definition of a prospect from ninth grade to seventh grade - for men’s basketball only - to nip a trend in which some college coaches were working at private, elite camps and clinics for seventh- and eighth-graders. The NCAA couldn’t regulate those camps because those youngsters fell below the current cutoff.

“It’s a little scary only because - we talked about this - where does it stop?” said Joe D’Antonio, chairman of the 31-member Division I Legislative Council, which approved the change during a two-day meeting at the NCAA Convention. “The fact that we’ve got to this point is really just a sign of the times.”

Run and hide, sixth-graders. Billy’s coming for you.