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I lived in Las Vegas and went back to work with Steve in a tournament since I moved.
The local guys only get two locations (4 courts) during the Big Time tournament. The others are handled by various camps. There is another tournament that uses city facilities primarily and that is assigned mostly by a guy with a local officiating business. A lot of the local guys that belong to the high school association do not work for him. Steve Oakes does not assign games for all of the tournaments in Vegas because all of them aren't Vision Sports tournaments. He doesn't even assign all of the games for the Vision Sports tournaments because they are too big and he doesn't have enough guys.
For anyone who scoffs at rec ball I have this question: What level are you at and what level to you want to be at? This "rec ball" is at a high level. Unlike the Nike camp in Indianapolis, these players come with teams and they want to win games. Add in the fact that there are teams with multiple college-bound players and you get great competition. Isn't it funny that people criticize these games as "rec ball" but the SEC and NBA think enough of them to use them for training?
[Edited by tomegun on Jul 31st, 2005 at 01:07 PM]
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