dawgs83

I agree but it does occur when college coaches can attend. I would suggest maybe doing it during the week. Most aau tournaments start near the weekend

Don't disagree with any of it but still have a problem with him trying out knowing he was gonna play somewhere else during that time. These kids seem to play one event against the other. I just hope the all star team has a plan and replaces them with a player who tried out for the team.

My problem with it is if your not going to play why go to the tryouts. Plenty of other good players at the tryouts would have loved to play. Kids today have no problem over committing themselves. I just believe you tryout for a team and make it you play. Always looking for something better.

Why were they not there?

Spiece Gators bounce back after getting pounded by hoop dreams in an entertaining game 92-90 over Louisville Prospects Montrelle Little 13pts Keenan Williams 17pts Austin Howard- 17 pts Trey Boyd- 16 pts Caleb Longacre- 10pts

Spiece Gators defeat NKY Smoke 99-55. Little-17pts 8rebs Williams-14pts Howard-14pts Longacre-4pts 8 assist Brown-14pts 8 rebs White-14pts

Played at Fern Creek as an 8th grader. Was ineligible to play at Ramsey Middle school. Not sure why. Played the following summer with Eastern but never enrolled there. Ended up at Ballard. Rumors are still out there about prep school and now Oak Hill.

So how do Prep schools Work? Im hearing they dont even have a school. The student(players) go to a high school but play for the prep team. Hunting Prep is evidently not even a school. They go to a HS in West Virginia. Do they pay rent? How do these kids get diplomas and who gives them the diploma?

KC was the head coach at Western for one year before leaving to become an assistant at Georgetown.

I've heard alot of talk about Snider from Ballard being next. Kids think they will get exposure and better college opportunities at Prep school. Snider has already committed to UofL. Not sure why he would need to unless his committment is soft. Heard they are not happy with UofL recuriting more guards. The kid out of Seattle is evidently a guard a 6'8.

Welcome to the Dark side of AAU basketball. Very little loyalty between coaches and players. Kids always looking for the best deal, coaches always looking for a better player. I've seen AAU coaches come right up to kids on other teams and try and get them to switch.

Spiece KY Gators defeated the Memphis Falcons 57-51 in first game at the Memphis Tip off Classic. Play the Memphis Bulls today at 1:00 Cory Thomas: 15 pts Caleb Longacre: 12pts 7 rebs Montrelle Little: 10 pts 10 rebs Terik Mason: 6pts Keenan Williams:6 pts Anthony Howard: 3 pts

Spiece Ky Gators roster. Will be playing in the Memphis Tip off Classic this weekend Austin Howard-Eastern Devon Johnson-Iroquois Caleb Longacre-Fairdale Cory Thomas- Fairdale Terik Mason-Fairdale Montrell Little--Doss Keenan Williams- Jeffersonville,In Blake Joseph-Rock Creek In Devin Burt- Rock Creek In Ryan Daves- Atherton

Fairdale wil be unederated going into preseason. Cory Thomas and Caleb Longacre return and that gives them leadership at the guard spot. Thomas averaged 18.7 ppg last year. A big addition will be 6'2 Terik Mason who transferred from Manual and didnt get eligible until the last 3 weeks of the season. Fairdale will be quick and should be a good shooting team. Their biggest concern will be size. Other than PRP though, there is really not much size in the region. PRP will definitely be the favorite but wont be a lock.

Spiece Gators 17u will be in Memphis this weekend.

Three summers ago I was at adidas tournament in INDY and most of the coaches were there to watch Chane Behannen that day. We were in the lobby and all of the coaches were coming in. I pointed out to my wife. There is Billy Donavon, Bill Self, Tom Crean, and Bobby Huggins. She was like, "so I dont know them." Then Coach K walks by with a summer straw hat on, and she said, "Hey there is Coach K from Duke." He had no Duke stuff on either.

If you could determine a way to eliminate the district tournament in basketball I would not have a problem with it. I dont think all teams deserve to go to the post season. But like someone posted earlier, You would have to go to a class system in basketball to eliminate districts. Also a huge difference is a basketball district tournament can be done in 5 days. Basketballs post season can be done in 3 weeks.

I will take the Magic over the travelers. Those kids are tough would certainly not back down.

Football needs to go back to the way it was in the 80's. When only the district champ and runner-up go to playoffs. No sense in a team that goes winless being in the playoffs. When this new system came out 4-5 yrs ago, Louisville Butler was winless got beat bad by St. X last game of the season, then had to turn around and play them again in the first rd of playoffs. First rd football playoffs should be eliminated

I love AAU basketball and have become a bigger fan of it over the years. Honestly it is where the kids get recruited now especially the smaller college prospects. However, stories like the ones above about kids leaving for this program or that one, is one of the reasons AAU gets its bad name and leads to problems. Parents and kids start bidding for the best handouts so to speak. I saw the picture from the travelers where the comment was "this is what we get and more on the way." I have no problem with the Travelers coming to Ky but since their announcement earlier in the year, there have been constant rumors about whose gonna play for who. I have been told that for teams to have EBYL status they have to have certain players on their teams or they don't get it. So the offers start coming and kids leave their teams for the best deal. Not saying I blame them just saying it leads to the negative views of AAU.

These are the ones I know for sure. They have three other players. Two from Indiana and 1 more from Louisville area Austin Howard-Eastern Devon Johnson-Iroquois Caleb Longacre-Fairdale Cory Thomas- Fairdale Terik Mason-Fairdale Montrell Little--Doss Keenan Williams- Jeffersonville,Ind

Spiece Ky Gators Elite Schedule MAR 29-31/ MEMPHIS TIP OFF CLASSIC (MEMPHIS TN) APR 6-7/ DERBY SLAM CLASSIC (LOUISVILLE, KY) APR 19-21/ MERRILVILLE SHOOTOUT (MER, IN)**NCAA CERT** APR 26-28/ DERBY CITY CLASSIC (LOU, KY)**NCAA CERT** MAY 11-12/ SUN & SHOOT (LOUISVILLE, KY) MAY 17-19/ KY AAU STATE TOURNEY (LEX, KY) MAY 25-27/ KING JAMES MEMORIAL CLASSIC (LOU, KY)- Optional Added event JULY 10-16/ AAU D-2 NATIONALS (ORLANDO, FL)**NCAA CERT** JULY 18-21/ BEST OF THE MIDWEST (INDY, IN)*NCAA CERT** JULY 25-28/ GRBA D-1 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (FT WAYNE, IN)**NCAA CERT**

Not a big fan of Hicks. He is a good player but not sure he has ever lived up to the hype he had as a freshman. I thought he was awesome his freshman year when I believe he had 32 for Shelby Co. vs Ballard(I think) in first rd of state tournament. Just dont think he ever really got much better. Also, Sat out some time with an injury. During this time I actually thought Trinity was better winning the LIT and beating Ballard. BTW, I think its a pretty solid list.

All good Questions. Anyone can start an AAU team and get certified as long as you meet qualifications. Raising the money is the issue. Most players get invited to AAU teams and some tryout. The higher a player is ranked the better the team he will get invited to play on. I have been told that to be EBYL status for Nike you have to have certain players on the team. I would say there are more teams that don't have a lot of sponsorship then there are with. Just because a team has Spiece in front of it doesn't guarantee sponsorship. I'm not in the know but I don't think its a violation to play for sponsored teams that are NCAA certified. What would be a possible violation is if players are receiving cash.

At one time he was. However, I believe he got into trouble at a Football game at J-Town where he threatened an official. I believe he had a son playing.