There are plenty of other kids on the roster also. Who's funding them ?
Fears has 21 offers. Do a bunch of donors from different schools pool their backing, or is/are there a donor/donors from just one school and everybody else is in it for show ?
Recruiting is shady. If Fears goes somewhere else, it will be said that school was behind it all.
No guarantees for any donor and the affiliated schools is my guess. I would think that beyond ante up donors to a LaLu or an AAU team to stay in the game- the larger donors do not get called unless there is real chance to land a kid. Of course there is the shoe money shit always in the background connected to different AAU teams and their schools.
There is also the possibility of benefits flowing via other avenues to and through the AAU team and then the recruit's people eventually benefit as procees moves along.
Again- no guarantees there either. Kids verbal and back out all day. There can kind of be an initiation fee to even allow real or full access to the kid/family to talk or to do unofficial visit depending on how far it gets and what the various demands are.
And it depends on the recruit. Most are probably not really dirty processes. Minimal stuff happens - AAU Team/program support in general for expenses and travel, etc.
The top 50 have a lot of weird shit going on though is my belief. And it mostly is unregulated unless somebody does something really direct and stupid.
Been like this for very long time and the maneuvering to stay ahead of any scrutiny changes. Nobody likes it, but it is the way of the world.
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