ESPNHS Invitational

[Bad Zebra]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

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.

Montverde is similar. A "prep" school in Orlando that recruits nationwide but does not play any local HS games because they are not sanctioned by the FHSAA. Truly a "basketball factory". Players live on campus...attend classes, travel extensively for games, but more resemble a college than a high school program.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

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

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

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

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

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

[Lcubed48]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

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

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

[JetMetFan]

Originally Posted by eyezen

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.

It doesn't appear to be all prep schools all the time. On the girls' side, Dr. Phillips beat Murry Bergtraum from NYC for the title last year. Bergtraum is a regular old public school, albeit one which has won the NYC girls' AA championship 14 years in a row.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Lcubed48

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

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.

Peace

[Lcubed48]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

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.

Peace

Sorry, young man. However, I began junior high the year (19XX) that "Wonderful World" came out.

[Multiple Sports]

Lot of guys in Brd. 12 emulate one of their own who made to the NBA......Scott Foster. As an IAABO guy, I am kinda dissapointed that they
didn't use IAABO mechanics throughtout the games. I think a lot of them were trying to look pretty or be wannabees.....

Nevada Ref - I know that they are some of your boys and I am not callin them out, but they looked like they were at a D league audition at times.....