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[QUOTE="Kenny11, post: 3803277, member: 7303"]
If we are talking CIAC the illusion of “recruiting” is so overblown. Catholic schools do not have recruiting budgets and they are certainly not spending time during the season going to middle school games. Most of these coaches pull in players based off reputation and the kids having a good experience going to a summer camp for that program. Yes, that is an advantage as well as getting kids from different towns but it’s just not as prevalent as it’s made out to be.

I actually know of a situation with a local catholic highschool which is kind of funny. Andre Drummond showed up at the school office unannounced to the school or the coach and said he wanted to transfer there to play basketball. He didn’t have a relationship with the coach at all and just had friends that were playing there and knew that program had a great reputation. The school and/or athletic director denied Drummond because he said he wanted to go there just to play basketball and they knew it would look like a recruiting thing when it wasn’t.
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