Originally Posted by bcross
The endgame with Book was that he was to influence the player to sign with the sports agent. They were looking for NBA guys and UD hasn't had a guy drafted in 25+ years. Just not seeing the same incentive for a sports agent to funnel some 3-star recruit to Dayton.
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But there is an incentive for an AAU coach to receive money from a college coach to funnel 3 star players to certain schools. I'm sure an envelope with 5 or 10k in it might get some AAU coaches to tell kid's and their families how great a certain school/coach are. That's why I mentioned the interesting coincidence that UD had so many players who played for Mac Irvin Fire during the Archie era.
Sure the money would be less than the 100k Adidas/Agents paid to get Bowen to go to UL and then sign with them when he turns pro but it's still money. The agents/adidas were most likely going to funnel the money through Bowen's AAU program and then to his family. And I'm sure somewhere in that process the AAU coach was going to get a cut.
AAU/EYBL coaches don't run these programs out of the goodness of their hearts folks. They make money from them and have been doing it for years.