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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2218562, member: 199"] Agree, but I got on a roll! And it pissed me off! (Catch has two decades of international basketball by the way. And I certainly wouldn't envy her or any other sacrificial athlete placed on such a committee as a figurehead to try and give it a hint of respectability.) It wasn't until the second time through that I really started thinking about the fiefdoms he wants to create for the AAU crowd - 5 regional gatekeepers for USA basketball admission, with 4 other at large members controlling the access to entry level USA participation. All of them with strong financial/commercial interests at odds with actually selecting the best team for USA. These gatekeepers he anticipates would be incentivized by being able to run their own camps and tournaments for profits where parents and the outsider AAU teams would be allowed to buy access to their wisdom and evaluation skills, while the shoe companies and rating services would be empowered to provide at large access. All in all a nice privatization of a national institution with profits for everyone derived from milking the families of young athletes further. What could possibly go wrong. [/QUOTE]