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Originally Posted by Dan_ref
The really good question is who paid for the prep school.
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This may not be as obvious as you think. A lot of people think prep schools are paid for by agents or by the schools to beef up their program, but many are paid for by the player's family. Some parents take loans to pay for the one year tuition in the hope of getting a 4-year D1 scholarship at the end of the rainbow.
The strangest way of paying for prep school that I've heard is a local NY prep school that required those on financial aid to work their grant off selling baked goods on the street during their spare time. Unbelievable.
This is something that is not talked about too often and everyone assumes there's a lot of under the table money. In reality, it's often a scam that parents have to accept because they didn't make their kids work during their real HS career.
Of course, recent changes made by the NCAA have changed the landscape for prep school eligibility. It looks like junior colleges are about to become popular destinations for academically challenged athletes.