Sketchy Recruiting Tactics

There was an article today at CBS Sportsline about a recruiting racket run by coaches of summer basketball leagues for high school basketball players. Apparently he was doing research for an article about that subject, got duped by a con man and then was so mad that he wrote this article about his incident.

There is no denying that there are some pretty sketchy recruiters out there, but what I don’t get is how exactly the summer team scam works. Apparently college coaches pay huge money for bogus “scouting reports” from these guys, and then the summer league cons somehow influence the high schoolers to sign with the team who pays the most. The thing that I don’t get is how the summer league coaches get the athlete to do what he wants. Are the coaches paying off the athletes, or do they have some other means of getting the high school basketball players to go to a school (that might or might not be in their best interest to go to)? The article did not directly say.

While mull it over, you might want to check out StubHub.com for NCAA basketball tickets.

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