Basketball/AAU

[macdaddy]

Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmm?: Wonder when the TSSAA will regulate Basketball and AAU the same way they do football? You can play 20 plus games in AAU after your season is over and then play 10 days during June of the 15 days you are allowed to practice plus your 5 days before school is out. Does anyone else get ticked off about this? Perhaps Tennessee HS football coaches should start an AAU 7 on 7 passing leagues for the whole month of June except the dead period. How would the TSSAA react to this or would we have to get their approval first? Hopefully I am not the only HS coach that gets ticked off about this!

[PainGame11]

Where do you coach?

[coach1076]

TSSAA has no control over AAU sports

[LETMETELLYOUWHAT]

AAU is ruining high school athletics.

[QSouth89]

coach1076 is correct, the TSSAA does not have any control over AAU. However, there is a rule that states only 3 teammates from the same school/team can play in a sanctioned AAU tournament. YBOA, AYBA, and USBA do not follow these guidelines. For instance, at YBOA nationals last year in Florida, I saw an 11th grade team made up if its entire varsity roster and their head coach was the assistant a parent was the head coach but the "assistant coach" did all the coaching. I don't know where the team was from but I thought it was strange.

[icecold06]

Just to clarify a few things the spring practice rules for football and basketball are the same. You have 15 days to get in 10 practices. As far as AAU goes TSSAA has absolutely no jurisdiction over what AAU does. Secondly the rule about not having more than 3 teammates on the same travel/summer/AAU team is only applicicable during the fall season wants schools starts. So on a summer AAU team you can have your whole school team on the roster but if you were to put a team together in some sort of fall league you could only have 3 kids from the same high school team.

[orngnblk]

Just to clarify a few things the spring practice rules for football and basketball are the same. You have 15 days to get in 10 practices. As far as AAU goes TSSAA has absolutely no jurisdiction over what AAU does. Secondly the rule about not having more than 3 teammates on the same travel/summer/AAU team is only applicicable during the fall season wants schools starts. So on a summer AAU team you can have your whole school team on the roster but if you were to put a team together in some sort of fall league you could only have 3 kids from the same high school team.

This is the rule,doesnt matter in spring.

[13sports]

Actually, basketball only gets 5 days of spring practice. There are just as many off-season football activities as there are basketball. 7 on 7 is popping up everywhere, "combines," and AAU football is on the way. What is the difference in playing basketball in the summer and playing baseball? If kids weren't playing baseball and basketball, would they be lifting 24 hours a day? Doubtful.

[kwc]

Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmm?: Wonder when the TSSAA will regulate Basketball and AAU the same way they do football? You can play 20 plus games in AAU after your season is over and then play 10 days during June of the 15 days you are allowed to practice plus your 5 days before school is out. Does anyone else get ticked off about this? Perhaps Tennessee HS football coaches should start an AAU 7 on 7 passing leagues for the whole month of June except the dead period. How would the TSSAA react to this or would we have to get their approval first? Hopefully I am not the only HS coach that gets ticked off about this!

Nor does the NCAA have anything to say about it. It IS the way of doing business in NCAA college basketball. The MONEY comes from the shoe companies that undergirds all of this. Want to know where a prospect may end up playing his college basketball? Simple ... find out which shoe company sponsors the AAU team he plays on and then find out what colleges use that shoe company's products. That will narrow down the choices. Be sure about one thing ... the AAU circuit fits into everybody's schedule ... from college coaches to potential college players. It's not going anywhere.

[HOOPSGURU]

Q, the three player rule only counts in fall leagues not AAU.