First Time For Me

[Bad Zebra]

This might be the thread to post this...I just finished reading a book: "Play Their Hearts Out...A Coach, His Star Recruit and the Youth Basketball Machine". Author's name is George Dohrmann. It's a fascinating look at how AAU has changed (ruined) youth basketball in th US. The main plot of the book is following a specific coach who has latched on to a youth star at a young age, but it profiles a number of coaches in the AAU system.

After reading it, I have come to two conclusions:

1. My instincts are accurate when judging the caliber of individuals involved with AAU basketball.
2. High school basketball has largely become irrelevant in the US because of AAU.

I would reccommend it to anyone who has ever worked an AAU game and come away scratching their head as to how anyone could entrust their child to some of these characters.