Young Recruits: The "Billys" Are Right, the NABC -- Not So Much

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 Young Recruits:  The "Billys" Are Right, the NABC -- Not So Much
All summer long, Kentucky fans have been subjected to a constant drumbeat of criticism over Coach Gillispie's acceptance of verbal commitments from players who have not yet reached their junior year in high school.  Evidently concerned about the perception that coaching was getting out of control, the NABC issued a statement which strongly opposed accepting commitments from high ... [link]

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Too Young To Know?
Published 7/7/2008 by mlmintampa at Alligator Army
... I cannot begin to dream of being as good of a basketball writer as Truzenzuzex, so I defer to him as the expert on this. But is signing young kids, non binding of course, really a bad thing? Coaches are smart enough to know what 15 year olds deserve scholarships and which ones will honor them. If that happens though, these kids cannot be harassed by other coaches, handlers, AAU coaches, and those strange men with digital cameras that haunt message boards. Kids who are mature enough to know where they are going to college when they are young would kill that ...

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