Hedgehog, you brought up something good with the conflict sometimes with AAU conflicting with high school practice or team camps. High school is about the team, not the individual, so if there is a high school practice or team camp at the same time as an AAU practice or tournament, which one do you think the player should attend? Should the player skip out on their teammates, which then causes friction, and attend AAU? Should the coach punish for this? You can see why coaches don't like travel ball. Again, high school is about the team. If a kid is the best point guard or post, etc., on the team, why then should a high school coach play them at another position that does not give them as good a chance of winning? If a player is told that their role on their AAU team is to spot up and shoot the three, that may be the opposite of what is expected of them on their high school team for the team to be successful. Then players and parents don't understand the difference. The goal in high school is to try to win by doing what's best for the team, not the individual. You won't find any coach that is only concerned about just one individual and not the team. Its not the name on the back of the uniform that's important, it's the name on the front.