[Casper05]

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I've got a question for you. How do you do the initial scouting process for high school players. Do you just look at stats of area players and then try to go watch games of players who are doing well. Do you talk to high school coaches and ask them who looks like they might be ready? Or is there some big database somewhere that you use and then send out form letters to players who fit your system. I'm really curious how you decide which players to pursue and which ones not to.

[/ QUOTE ]Summer (aau circuit) is when we go out and look at kids. The entire month of July is tournament after tournament...Vegas, Orlanda, Houston, etc etc...we always have 3 coaches on the road- sometimes at the same tournament and sometimes spread from Cali to Florida. Other than watching teams from our area, we look at the scouting services (rivals.com, scout.com, and numerous smaller sites) to see what they think of kids. We talk to local 'experts' as well.

Some kids to send in tape, but we rarely will get a kid that has to send us a tape...there is normally a reason why we haven't seen him in person.