NYT article about recruiting; Kelly quoted

[Jason Pham]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/sports/ncaafootball/06camps.html?_r=1&hp

“The seven-on-seven stuff concerns me,” Kelly said. “It does have an appearance of separating from the high school coach. In football, the head football coach is still relevant. I don’t know if that’s the case in basketball.”

 

[GreatGolson]

i had a friend play 7-7 in florida for an Indiana all-state type squad, he said it was a blast but that there were recruiters everywhere

 

[Old Man Mike]

This is a monster problem in basketball. I have been close to situations in both the Cleveland area and the Kalamazoo area where a local AAU coach dominates the recruiting process, using a full compliment of lies and playing schools off one another.

 

[ACamp1900]

lol... my nephew just got recruited by an AAU squad in Baltimore...

 

[BGIF]

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“I think the outside third parties for both sports are a huge concern,” said Rachel Newman Baker, the N.C.A.A. director for agent, gambling and amateurism activities. “They really are the problem, from multiple levels. They have student-athletes’ and their families’ ears.”

Those fears intensified last week when the University of Oregon admitted to paying $25,000 to Will Lyles, who runs a Houston-based scouting service. He essentially directed the recruitment of the freshman tailback Lache Seastrunk. The Ducks also paid $3,745 to Baron Flenory, who runs Badger Sports Elite seven-on-seven camps. The payments, first reported by Yahoo, were cleared by Oregon’s compliance department. Although technically within N.C.A.A. rules, the payments were seen as a sign that football’s recruiting model is becoming more like basketball’s, in which college coaches are beholden to third parties.

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But for college football recruiting to avoid ending up like basketball’s, Meyer said, no magic solution or N.C.A.A. legislation exists.

“There’s a lot of people wondering how we can control this,” he said. “It’s not an easy question to answer.”

College coaches come under the NCAA because they're schools are members. The NCAA can go after the college coach like at UNC but I don't see any legal hold they have over the agent.