@PurplePride92, why is Saban wrong?

@PurplePride92, why is Saban wrong?

 

Because I know many high school coaches of all sports who work hard to place their athletes in college. Okie said we are only talking about the D-1 level though so in that instance Saban may be right but I still doubt it. I think people are giving AAU coaches too much credit in some instances. There are a lot out of AAU coaches there that do good but to act like the high school coaches who spends more time with the athletes than any other coach that the kid is around doesn't matter is foolish thinking.

There are only so many kids going D-1 to play basketball. I keep forgetting that D-1 is the only level that matters though. My fault. Saban is right. He should have clarified that it only matters if it is D-1.

 

D1 is all Saban cares about. However no matter the sport, the college coaches are going to follow the lead of the D1 programs... That's why you see D3 and NAIA schools starting to do 1 day camps ect...

Has Basketball and baseball coaches aren't nearly as involved with the recruiting process as football coaches and that by and large is because of AAU and how the evaluation period for college coaches work.

D1 is all Saban cares about. However no matter the sport, the college coaches are going to follow the lead of the D1 programs... That's why you see D3 and NAIA schools starting to do 1 day camps ect...

Has Basketball and baseball coaches aren't nearly as involved with the recruiting process as football coaches and that by and large is because of AAU and how the evaluation period for college coaches work.

 

I agree that football coaches are more involved in recruiting than other sports because of AAU but to say other high school coaches don't matter is a pretty stupid statement regardless of the level he is talking about.

I agree that football coaches are more involved in recruiting than other sports because of AAU but to say other high school coaches don't matter is a pretty stupid statement regardless of the level he is talking about.

 

I'm with PP on this one. I think Saban's comment was a slap in the face to every non-football coach out there. Maybe he needed to contextualize it a little better and it wouldn't have sounded quite as bad as it did, at least to some of us.

 

Do most of you know how AAU basketball teams work? I'm talking the upper echelon teams, the ones with the high D I talent that all the coaches go to see play AAU in the summer. Most of those teams practice together very little, and what little practice they do get many times is when they all get together at a tournament and the get an empty court before games. That's because most of them are not from the same area and any kind of regular weekly practice schedule would be nearly impossible. So how much is an AAU coach actually involved with those kids over the course of a summer? Not a whole lot. Even the ones with the best of intentions with a pure heart and nothing but the kids interest in mind don't spend a whole lot of time with those kids. To think they do more for those kids on average is ludicrous. Like I said that may not be exactly what Saban meant, but it sure came across that way.

1. There is no AAU soccer.

2. Club soccer has made high school soccer relevant. Nobody ever cared about high school soccer for both boys and girls. Now it's actually become a spectator sport that high school peers will attend and cheer on their classmates.

 

Agree with you on the rise of soccer as an actual sport students will now respect and the role club teams have played.

 

But when it comes to recruiting kids for college sports, where do the college soccer coaches spend their time? I think they probably spend a majority of their recruiting time going to club tournaments, etc. The travelling club teams get more looks than the high school teams. If they are really interested in a kid they saw on a club team they will go to a high school game and watch but chances are they first noticed him or her on her/his club team.

 

In this sense, club soccer is very much like AAU basketball.

Exactly! Way to call him out Coach Harbaugh!