"This Is Why Tubby Smith Don't Work In Kentucky No More"

If you like what you read here, check out my blog Ballin is a Habit . That quote right there is a comment from Bsquared-2 on a blog post from Gary Parrish . The post is about Tubby Smith's decision to not hold an Elite Camp at Minnesota this summer. If you don't know what an Elite Camp is, read this . Essentially, this is how it works. A school will host a basketball camp during the summer with the sole intention of getting the top 10 or 20 or 50 kids they are recruiting onto their campus. They then pay the recruit's AAU coach, father, brother, or someone else with influence over the recruit a large sum of money to come speak at or work the camp. The understanding is that some of that money goes into the pocket of the person of influence (usually the AAU coach), while some of that money is to be used to assure that the player can get on campus for the camp. How else would 16- and 17-year-old kids be able to afford to fly all over the country during the summer? The craziest part of this ... (link)