What's going on with these made up high schools for basketball? Look at this list

[Trojan 24]

A breh I work with played at one of these bullshyt highschools his Junior/Senior year. Had a couple Pac-12 offers, then found out his school wasn't accredited. Got his offers pulled and ended up going Juco to D3. These the type of kids this shyt hurts most. Never woulda hit the league but coulda played 4 years and got a full ride from a good school

 

[Big Mountain Hélà]

Not that big of a deal, as long as they still get a diploma

 

[concise]

Because the education is fake? I think that would be better for the athletes, more time to hoop.

If the education part is mostly a sham, why wouldn't the training mostly be a sham as well? Isn't the main reason why most of them are better than their competition solely due to having some better talent?

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

 

[mbewane]

Didn't Kanye set up a "school" too

 

[mastermind]

Not that big of a deal, as long as they still get a diploma

He would say this since he had a sham school himself

 

[concise]

He would say this since he had a sham school himself

Prime Prep didn't even last 3 full years.

 

[Sauce Dab]

I always wondered what do these kids do when they ain’t playing their sport. Like what do their classrooms look like? What are they learning at these academies?
I also hate how its these academies that get to play for the national championship every year, they shouldn’t be eligible to play when you’re recruiting all over the world

 

[Flight]

They’re buying these kids. Dybantsa was offered a million to go to Montverde. Adidas played a role in Peterson going to Prolific. Lincoln High and the schools these people are longing for doesn’t have the bread to compete.

For example Utah Prep has the number 1 player in the country. They’re backed by one of the Utah Jazz owners and they paid Dybantsa 600k and gave him an ownership stake in the school. The local public schools can’t compete anymore.

 

[Brolic]

Youth basketball has been ENORMOUSLY industrialized.

I coach, and my son is heavy in the circuit.

My guy that runs the program my son plays for is in the process of starting a prep school but I'm not gonna send my kid there.

He's going to a real school.

How do they get money to start/run these programs? Do they make a contract with the students to get a cut of their money if they get NIL deal in college or make it the NBA?

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

It'd actually be in the best interest of these kids for the big athletic companies to open academies....at least IMG isn't masquerading as not trying to be anything but that.

I believe that it should be extremely difficult for these type of schools to even be legal, much less accredited.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Y'all blaming the schools like the parents aren't unenrolling them and then signing them up for these schools to try and make money off their kids


There's other trade schools and home schools and private schools that they could enroll them into, along with just leaving them in regular public school. But noooooooooooooooo. They gotta give them the easiest, cheating ass way to the bag.... And then y'all blame the SCHOOLS for this?

 

[Luke Cage]

Y'all blaming the schools like the parents aren't unenrolling them and then signing them up for these schools to try and make money off their kids


There's other trade schools and home schools and private schools that they could enroll them into, along with just leaving them in regular public school. But noooooooooooooooo. They gotta give them the easiest, cheating ass way to the bag.... And then y'all blame the SCHOOLS for this?

Yeah exactly, Most parents i know aren't sending their kids across the country to attend high school. Usually just send them to the same high school they went to. Or at most a neighboring school in the same county that has a better program.

 

[Big Boss]

Everybody gotta a prep school

 

[Flight]

Everybody gotta a prep school

Business is business dawg