First Time For Me

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Originally Posted by Bad Zebra

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.

Two thoughts...

1) I disagree with your point about HS basketball becoming irrelevant. Gyms across the country are still filled with fans and student bodies to cheer on their teams. Maybe those games are irrelevant as far as getting scouted by big-time college coaches, but around here we still see college coaches showing up at weekday games to watch players. Buying into that thought process makes us part of the problem.

2) Not only do these parents entrust their kid to these coaches/organizations, they pay them large sums of money just so Johnny can be on the team. It's ridiculous.