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Reply to "AHSAA is finally giving baseball an inch!!!"

Kungaloosh,
While this looks good on the surface it is another attempt by the AHSAA to "squash" AAU basketball. Think through your analysis and you will see that it rarely would work in the athlete's best interest. They would devote the summer to practicing with inner squad games for seven weeks with outside competition on seven Saturdays. In the meantime the player has given up the opportunity to play at a higher level of competition on a travel team with multiple scouting opportunities.

The current system only feeds the egos of the HS coaches who want complete control over their players, but want to do little in help the players development/exposure. If the AHSAA really wants to help the players let them open the entire summer up for the coaches to compete with their teams. This will NEVER happen for several reasons, but primarily because while these coaches want control over their players and hate the attention drawn to travel teams/programs, they want their free summers playing golf more.

Disclaimer: This isn't a slam on the many good HS coaches who have a genuine interest in their players.
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