Originally Posted by Nevadaref (Post 835108)

Findlay isn't really a high school team.
Just to be clear Findley is the name of the basketball program and all of the kids go to Henderson International school.
They have an agreement with the state association which grants them sanctioning so they can play in many of the major tournaments across the country, but they forego playing for the NV state title. They are permitted to recruit players as long as the kids are not from NV. This is so the NV schools don't lose all of their top players to this program.

Originally Posted by JRutledge (Post 835116)

I believe all these schools participating in this tournament are Prep schools. This basically means they do not play under the state rules that normal schools play in and would not allow these teams to play in this tournament otherwise. At least that is the case from my state and these types of schools are often not present in my state, but there were a couple of attempt. And at least some of the East Coast model the players are sometimes older or have finished their HS career and join these teams in order to make themselves noticed by college teams. This is the reason they often call these schools "Basketball factories." It is questionable if there are even consistent academic standards used to even educate those kids outside of basketball.

Peace

Originally Posted by Snaqwells (Post 835155)

You mean the kids aren't going there to get ready for Calculus?

Originally Posted by JRutledge (Post 835156)

They don't know much about History. They don't know much about Biology. They don't know much about Science Books. They don't know much about the French they took.

Peace

Originally Posted by eyezen (Post 835140)

I was just going to post something similar. Most states that I'm aware of (in the midwest anyway) don't allow teams to compete in "national" tournaments such as this. It's a shame that ESPN promotes this as a High School tournament as the only thing "High School" about this tournament is that the players may (or may not) be of High School age.

Originally Posted by Lcubed48 (Post 835178)

Say, you should use your words as lyrics in a song. They have a catchy ring to them. :D
We aren't dating ourselves or anything here. Or, are we?

Originally Posted by JRutledge (Post 835310)

Just so you know, that song was made before I was born. So I am not dating anything. I just happen to be around someone that loved Sam Cooke. ;)

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