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passtheball, unsure if you have followed this whole thread, but once again the college basketball season is going on while the high school season is going on,therefore there will always be more college coaches at AAU events, always, because college teams are not playing at that time


Like I said the best players in the country will have college coaches at AAU and High School Events. Here is a kid that plays mainly with kids from a Northern Kentucky AAU team, but plays in an Indiana community across from Louisville that is a top recruit nationally. As you can see coaches are coming to his high school events.


http://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/r.../95384824/



I will also say this, the Major Division 1 prospects are seen prior to the time they enter 11th grade maybe even 10th. AAU competition may help players that might not be seen, but I can guarantee that a quality player can send some game film and highlights to a college coach and they could get a shot at a school. Im not saying elite schools, but at some college (there are probably about 1000 college basketball programs at some leve)l.


I will say that I have a pretty good relationship with some smaller colllege coaches (NCAA D2, D3, Juco, NAIA) and have sent recommendation for players to these coaches and all the film they ever got was from high school games and were all given good offers. They may not be your household D1 programs, but they were offers that paid for bulk of their college, (Say 80 percent) On the boys side it may be different, but on the girls side lets just say AAU got the kid a scholarship to UCONN and then became the Number 1 draft pick in the WNBA, that means even with all that "Exposure" even the best player in the world is going to get about a 60,000 professional contract. On the mens side there is a lot more money and financial opportunity to gain, whether in NBA , NBDL, or overseas.

What I am saying in a nutshell, is AAU is more about making money for AAU than helping kids gain scholarships. If they happen to get one so be it. I like the AAU competition, but I am unsure its really needed at the level it is today. They could play every weekend, if they wanted.

Call me a traditionalist, but I just hate the fact some AAU programs are diluting and watering down the high school game for selfish reasons, and basically have an all recruited AAU team beating actual high school teams to a pulp and puffing their chest out like they did something special. If you want to recruit go become a college coach then go do it, keep high school sports high school sports, keep AAU sports AAU Sports.