http://www.bluegrasspreps.com/showthread.php?t=78393&highlight=Bird33

I wonder how long it will take Bird33 to start another OJ back to Rose Hill thread :lol:

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I agree, and wonder where scooterbob has been lately?:lol: Sorry, just couldn't resist that one.

I don't blame them.

Any Who, My "issue" surrounding most of this stuff has been the impact of AAU, Summer Tourneys, Shoe Co. influence, Entourages, Adult(or semi-adult) egos, etc dictating and overly influencing HS basketball - as I see it.

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I could not agree with you anymore. I think that AAU does a decent job of displaying athletes. However, I just think that it destroys an individuals unity with their high school teams. :irked:

I love high school basketball but I too think that it is being destroyed by AAU because I feel that there are too many outside influences in the AAU. Its getting old.

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I could not agree with you anymore. I think that AAU does a decent job of displaying athletes. However, I just think that it destroys an individuals unity with their high school teams. :irked:

I love high school basketball but I too think that it is being destroyed by AAU because I feel that there are too many outside influences in the AAU. Its getting old.

Well said, it does seem to be becoming a problem.

I dont know if it has already been talked about, but I read in the paper that Mayo is not going to Manhatten, and plans on going to USC, and Micheal Beasley will follow him. I am looking for a link.

And the Mayo Circus show continues.

Here is the link by Dustin Dow of the Cincy Enquirer, looks like there's more to it than just Barnes.

 

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060430/SPT0301/604300409/1062/SPT

Here is the link by Dustin Dow of the Cincy Enquirer, looks like there's more to it than just Barnes.

 

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060430/SPT0301/604300409/1062/SPT

 

I'd like to see Majo play for a different shoe team (whoops, I mean AAU team) each weekend and drive these low life slime balls into insanity as soon as possible.

 

It's just pathetic what all this has become:fire:

 

Woody Jr

I'd like to see Majo play for a different shoe team (whoops, I mean AAU team) each weekend and drive these low life slime balls into insanity as soon as possible.

 

It's just pathetic what all this has become:fire:

 

Woody Jr

I cant agree with you more WoodyJr. They follow this kid around drooling all over them selfs...is sick. :irked:

I agree Woody, didn't realize how bad it was until reading this article, these kids are used by everyone involved.

Wow!! Two great icons of everything that is good about amatuer sports in that article - Sonny Vaccaro and Dwaine Barnes. That's about as close to Bonnie and Clyde as you can get in basketball...

 

 

Frances

 

PS - my apologies to Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow - I didn't mean to slander their good names...

I'd like to see Majo play for a different shoe team (whoops, I mean AAU team) each weekend and drive these low life slime balls into insanity as soon as possible.

 

It's just pathetic what all this has become:fire:

 

Woody Jr

:thumb: I agree 100% also Woody, It is a pretty pitiful human being that has to make a circus out of a very talented h.s. kid. :madman: By the time all these scum buckets are through there imo will not be a college that will take a chance on the kid.:fire:

:thumb: I agree 100% also Woody, It is a pretty pitiful human being that has to make a circus out of a very talented h.s. kid. :madman: By the time all these scum buckets are through there imo will not be a college that will take a chance on the kid.:fire:

 

 

I may have to disagree this time Rambler(that happens so infrequently:p )

 

Many if not most of the colleges are/have/can/seem to? behave as patheticly as the rest of these people.

It's just that the NCAA & schools have such wonderful PR mechanisms in place;) Like at post-game interview sessions when they issued the directive that all players MUST be addressed as "student-athletes" :sleep: :lol:

I wonder if they provided puke buckets for all the sportswriters in attendance?

 

 

caveat - I know I'm using a really wide brush in some of my statements, but I'm basically addressing the overall picture

 

Woody Jr

Wow!! Two great icons of everything that is good about amatuer sports in that article - Sonny Vaccaro and Dwaine Barnes. That's about as close to Bonnie and Clyde as you can get in basketball...

 

 

Frances

 

PS - my apologies to Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow - I didn't mean to slander their good names...

 

 

The apology is great, Vaccaro is a leach.