[Bette]

If you want to see a summer basketball coach squirm, ask about Elite Camps.
An elite camp is an on campus event run by a college program, usually reserved for 10-20 top prospects that program is recruiting. Its a way for schools to exploit a loophole in the NCAA rulebook and funnel money to summer coaches who use some of that money to pay for their best prospects to attend Elite Camp.
Here's how it works: Let's pretend State U is recruiting two prospects from an AAU team in California, a couple of high-level prospects capable of someday winning a league title. Now let's pretend I'm the coach of that AAU team. What State U would do is hire me to be a "counselor" or "speaker" at its Elite Camp. My pay might be $2,500 and my job might be to talk about free throw shooting for, say, 30 minutes one afternoon.

But the implied tradeoff is that I must use some of the money I'm receiving to pay for the flights of my two prospects so they can attend the Elite Camp because how else could they possibly afford to fly across the country in the middle of June?
The NCAA doesnt regulate who universities hire to work summer camps.
Furthermore they cant regulate how much coaches can be paid to work a camp but the pay must be consistent, that is all get the same amount.

Its a three step process:

1. The school pays the coach
2. The coach pays the players to come
3. The school has the coach and his players on campus for the Elite Camp

http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/story/10911734/rss


The article goes on to say that only the dumb coaches get caught in violation of NCAA rules. The rest get creative. What is your take on that?

[marwin24]

nice post keep it up

[Quality88]

Happens every year.